What is the best game in the world ever? Any fule will have a story to tell but I tell thee this and you should believe me when I say that Advance Wars Dual Strike is the best game ever made. Ever. Yes, there is this game and that game but for sheer depth, replayabilty and addictiveness nothing else really comes close. I lost my PSP on the plane to Bangkok last Christmas which is a lesson to anyone thinking it is a good idea to get pissed up in the free bar in business class – there is a downside mine being that my broken PSP is now in the hands of some poor air stewardess and her family. Fair play to them and that broken piece of shit. Enjoy. Anyway, being as I was now gameless I had few options open to me in the ‘’portable gaming’’ stakes – was it to be another PSP or back to the DS that I had run down on these pages little under a year ago? Well, seeing as my main criteria was PORTABLE gaming then there was really only one choice – a DS. Say what you like about the graphics and games when it comes to practicality and portability then DS is the only choice. My PSP broke after too much travel because the widdle drive cannot take any kind of stick and had bust and the more I think about it the more I can see the PSP is a rushed prototype that I am sure will be much better than the first incarnation once the PSP2 is launched in the future. Also, in my defence I did have the original DS and the new model is very sexy and small and so damn practical. All this plus the ability to zipped .nds files from the interweb via the R4 card. Lovely jubbly. By the way the PSP is the same price as DS here so there were no financial constraints here only gaming and practical reasons for the purchase.
Once in my possession a few zipped games on the memory stick and hey presto it’s like having and old mate round for dinner. Hi Mario 64, hello Animal Crossing, good to see you Phoenix Wright and who is this lovely looking thing I see? Ahh Dual Strike. I played this to death a year ago and unfortunately we said goodbye last summer but now we are back together and I have been playing non-stop for months now. The same missions, the same characters, the same ludicrously addictive ‘’one-more-turn’’ helplessness that had me reaching for the toilet roll way after the first log had it the pan when I play in ‘’’the bathroom’’. I won’t explain what the game is and how it’s played as there are many sites that will explain in depth the turn based strategy stealth ém up. Let me leave it at this; there is no better game on the planet at this moment in time. Don’t argue because its fact and everybody knows it. Advance Wars DS is pure gaming gold.