Editing Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising

{{Game
|name=Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
|image=[[Image:Advancewars2.jpg|200px]]
|bgcolor=silver
|fgcolor=black
|developer=[[Intelligent Systems]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|system=[[Game Boy Advance]], [[Wii U Virtual Console]]
|release='''Game Boy Advance'''<br />US June 23, 2003<br>EU October 3, 2003<br />'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br />PAL July 2, 2015<br />US August 20, 2015
|gallery=[http://www.gamehiker.com/gallery/index.php?cat=78 GH Gallery]
|rating=ESRB: E
|}}

'''Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising''' is a war strategy game that acts as the second game of the ''Advance Wars'' series and eighth in the overall [[Portal: Famicom Wars|''Famicom Wars'' series]].

=Story=

While the allied nations recover from the devastating war wrought by Sturm, the [[Black Hole]] army has already rebuilt its strength with a number of new COs and powerful weapons. Black Hole leads a simultaneous strike on all the nations of Wars World, causing the recovering nations to mount a resistance against the alien invaders. 

=Gameplay=

Advance Wars is a turn-based game, much like the [[Fire Emblem series]]. The player takes control of a CO who each have a special influence on the effectiveness of their units. Some units increase the air or naval support of their units, others specialize in direct or indirect units. A crucial strategy is CO Powers and the new Super CO Powers.

The gameplay is little changed from [[Advance Wars]], but new features include the aforementioned Super CO Powers which are more powerful than CO Powers, but take longer to charge. Other notable additions are the new [[Units in Advance Wars 2#Neotank|Neotank]] unit, the powerhouse of land units. Maps in Campaign Mode also include Black Hole weapons such as Mini-Cannons, Black Cannons, and the unit-deploying factories.

The game also gives every nation new COs to command. Yellow Comet gets [[Sensei]], Green Earth gets [[Jess]], Blue Moon gets [[Colin]], and Orange Star finally allows [[Hachi]] to be playable. Black Hole's roster is expanded to include [[Flak]], [[Adder]], [[Lash]], and [[Hawke]]. COs from Advance Wars all return, only now all with new Super CO powers.

=Release=

Because ''Advance Wars'' was never released in Japan, the sequel was never released there either. In light of this many of the Japanese character differences, such as [[Olaf]]'s Santa Claus motif, was not used in any version of the game. This was ironic, given that the game was designed in Japan.

=Legacy=

==Sequels==

''Advance Wars 2'' was followed up with ''[[Advance Wars: Dual Strike]]'' for the [[Nintendo DS]].

==Ports/Remakes==

*In Japan, the game was bundled with the sequel in the [[Gameboy Wars Advance 1 + 2]] compilation. This was released shortly before ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' since the first two Advance Wars games had not been released in Japan as stand alone games. This version was later released on Japan's [[Wii U Virtual Console]] in 2014.
*In 2015, ''Advance Wars 2'' was released for download through the [[Wii U]]'s eShop as part of the [[Wii U Virtual Console]]. Japan's Virtual Console did not receive this release in favor of the compilation version mentioned above.

=See Also=

*[[Units in Advance Wars 2]]
{{Famicom Wars Series}}
[[Category: Game Boy Advance Games]] [[Category: Famicom Wars Games]]