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Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Advance Wars: Dual Strike is the third installment in the Advance Wars series (first on DS media). Advance Wars is the international title of the Wars video game series, which dates back to the Family Computer…

91 23 June 2005

Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a simulator developed by Intelligent Systems, released 23 June 2005 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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What Advance Wars: Dual Strike is

Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a simulator game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

On the heels of its last defeat, the nefarious Black Hole Army has fallen under the control of a deadly new commanding officer. He has sent its new COs to attack the nations of Wars World once again, and it’s up to the allied armies of Orange Star, Blue Moon, Yellow Comet and Green Earth to put an end to Black Hole once and for all.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Wars series

Advance Wars: Dual Strike is the 12th of 17 entries we hold in the Wars series. It arrived 7 months after Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2. The next entry was Battalion Wars in 2005. Its critic score of 91 is 5 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is Advance Wars at 100.

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How it was received

Advance Wars: Dual Strike holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 62 votes.

What it launched against

Advance Wars: Dual Strike launched on 23 June 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Killer7. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Killer7.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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When did Advance Wars: Dual Strike come out?
Advance Wars: Dual Strike was released on 23 June 2005 for Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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