Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 93% (41 Critic Reviews) |
| Metacritic | 92/100 (28 Critic Reviews) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Allgame | |
| Computer and Video Games | 9/10 |
| Eurogamer | 10/10 |
| GameSpot | 9.1/10 |
| IGN | 9.9/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 10/10 |
Upon release, the game received universal acclaim. According to Julian Gollop, developer of X-COM and Rebelstar: Tactical Command, Advance Wars, besides being influential, opened up the market for similar games on handheld video game systems. It was rated the 26th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list. It has an average score of 92/100 on Metacritic, based on 28 critic reviews, and an average score of 93% on GameRankings, based on 41 critic reviews.
The Electric Playground called the game "A deep, quite cartoony and consummately Japanese turn-based wargame with depth, character and replayability to burn". IGN called the game "Incredibly intense and amazingly addictive...especially when you learn every little nuance of the game design". Gaming Age stated There is a perfect blend of simplicity and complexity that makes this game so highly addictive". GameSpot stated that the game is "Deep and easy to learn, and it contains a level of replay rarely witnessed in handheld gaming". Total Video Games noted "For a handheld, the AI of your computer-controlled opponents is surprisingly diverse and complex". Allgame commented "Ingeniously designed, Advance Wars manages to be both in-depth, and instantly accessible, simply because it presents the game in easily manageable chunks".
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
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