Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Shows Footage of Both Campaigns and More

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During yesterday's Nintendo Direct showcase, Nintendo revealed a new trailer for their upcoming Switch strategy game, Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp. The remake of the first two games in the long-running Advance Wars series, Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp will present these two classic games in a new style with new animations.

The Advance Wars series is a sister series to the Famicom Wars series, which started all the way back in 1988. The first Advance Wars game released in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance. Its sequel, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, released two years later. The series has been dormant for over ten years, as the last game to be released in the entire Wars series was Advance Wars: Days of Ruin in 2008 for the Nintendo DS. Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp was announced last year during a Nintendo Direct at E3.

What Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp Needs to Get Right

In this new trailer, Nintendo revealed some of the new features this game will have after it previously delayed Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp out of its initial December 2021 release date. Nintendo and WayForward, who are developing the game, have added in some quality of life features like fast-forward and resetting turns. Nintendo also confirmed that some features are returning from the original game like local multiplayer, the map editor, and the War Room. However, the biggest new feature of the game is voice acting, which will be a first for the series.

WayForward is famous for developing the Shantae series, and their penchant for doing 2D sprite work was likely a reason Nintendo went to it for the development of this game. The regular developer for theAdvance Wars series, Intelligent Systems, is likely busy working on Fire Emblem given how popular