May 11th, 2011
By Lysonicstorm

Genre: Real Time Strategy
Systems: GameCube
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: 2011

At E3 we discovered that the much-loved Advance Wars series is being transformed into a GameCube game from the Game Boy Advance. That is not the only major change for the series though. Advance Wars: Under Fire will be a real time, 3-D, quick response combat game whereas the Game Boy version was turn based, taking place from a birds eye view at whatever pace you chose. In the way that Command and Conquer Renegade took the Command and Conquer series to the soldier’s view from the overlord perspective, Advance Wars: Under Fire aims to do the same thing. You can only command a few soldiers at a time, but the rest of
your soldiers will defend areas where they are deployed and respond to attacks until you lead them into battle. You can also possessunits
and fight from their perspective, and once they perish you move on to another.

Like Advance Wars games of the past, players need to learn what units are effective against other types, and which will get slaughtered. For instance, a Bomber will get wasted by a long-range Missile unit. There are some new Commanding Officers along with some new units combined with the classic Advance Wars units. The game looks to be extremely action-packed, and it should be quite interesting to see how this change in perspective and gameplay will change the series that so many people already enjoyed. Unfortunately, it is not scheduled to launch until 2011 as of now.