I’m sure I’m not doing the developers any favors by saying this game is almost an exact clone of Advance Wars, but it is.* If the game is not licensed, we may be looking at a Scrabulous type situation.* The units are basically the same with the same strengths and weaknesses, number of squares they can move over different terrain, range etc.* Even the little battle animations are almost identical.* One side shoots — pause — a few units on the other side blow up, the other side shots…* It’s the same thing.* The different typs of terrain are the same and the function of each type is the same. Basically, it stomps all over any intellectual property rights the original developers had in whatever country they had them in.* I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know what those rights may be, but, as with Scrabulous, the winner is… you.
The developers have picked up the ball where Advance Wars left it and squashed it right into our cellphones.* And let’s face it, it’s not acceptable to carry around a GameBoy Advance anymore.* Plus, they’ve taken away one of Advance War’s more onerous features, the multi-turn capture of cities.* This would often make your games stretch into the two hour area for no good reason.* For instance, if you only had one unit at the end, you’d be capturing that last city for ten turns.
