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 Story is an Advance Wars 2 hack by PlatinumSkink. It features a custom campaign that tells a story that serves as a sequel to the story of Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising.

It features CO and unit rebalancing, 34 custom campaign missions and an original story. VS maps and War Room are untouched. Hard Mode not featured.

Version 1.82 aims to fix some problems and addresses some the feedback. I currently consider this to be the final version of the hack, unless I get some feedback with things I would like to address. Version 1.83 was a bugfix. 1.84 fixed the error that snook into 1.83, I hope.

Database match: Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising (USA)
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