Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turn-based strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems. It is the second entry of a series of games (Advance Wars having come first, Black Hole Rising second, Dual Strike third, with Days of Ruin being the latest entry so far.)

Gameplay is almost identical to Advance Wars, with a few welcome additions - the main one being a "Super CO Power" on top of the normal CO power. You'll find familiar units and hear favorite songs again! The cheesy storytelling is back, too.

While the Allied Nations were still recovering from the war of the previous game, the Black Hole Army had already built back up and launches a large-scale invasion on all four Macro Land nations: Orange Star, Blue Moon, Yellow Comet, and Green Earth. Commanded by Sturm, their armies are sure of their victory! Will you be able to show them wrong?

You play as the Commanding Officer of the army of one of the four Nations. Each turn, you move your units once each and attack. You can also build extra units (one per turn per building) at the harbors, factories and so on, depending on the cash you managed to net from cities you occupy.

Advance Wars Returns is a romhack of AW2 and it contains a brand new story with 42 new campaign missions in both a normal and a hard difficulty, a completely new War Room with 30 missions, an AWBW section in Vs. Mode for your PvP desires and reworked CO-Power mechanics and COs. The Patch can be applied using LunarIPS.

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