Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America and PAL regions in 2003. It is the second game in the Advance Wars sub-series of Nintendo Wars. It is preceded by Advance Wars and followed by Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Despite being developed in the region, the original Japanese release was canceled, but the game was later released in the region alongside the original Advance Wars as part of a compilation cartridge called Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 in 2004. The game was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in North America and Europe in 2015. At E3 2021, Nintendo announced that Black Hole Rising, alongside the original Advance Wars, would be remade and released together for the Nintendo Switch by WayForward in another compilation titled Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp.
| Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising | |
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| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Makoto Shimojo Kentaro Nishimura |
| Producer(s) | Toru Narihiro Takehiro Izushi |
| Artist(s) | Ryo Hirata |
| Writer(s) | Masayuki Horikawa Kouhei Maeda Makoto Shimojo |
| Composer(s) | Yoshito Hirano |
| Series | Wars |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
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| Genre(s) | Turn-based strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Black Hole Rising is nearly identical to the previous game in terms of core gameplay; there was only a small change in overall graphical style and some small content additions. The storyline of this game continues from the previous game, Advance Wars. Black Hole has quickly recovered from its defeat in Cosmo Land, and has gathered forces to invade Macro Land under the command of Sturm, the same commander who led the invasion of Cosmo Land. The protagonists, the Allied Nations, cooperate once again to drive the Black Hole forces out of Macro Land once and for all.
The game received positive reviews, and won the European Computer Trade Show's Best Handheld Game of the Year award in 2003.