Advance Wars is a great fun, challenging and stylish military strategy game. As you make your way through the game you get a greater choice of weaponry and commanders to use (each with their own special military skills) in different scenarios.

You must use power and brains to defeat the evil opposition and win through. But while the backstory is engaging enough and holds the many different battle scenarios together, it's the gameplay and tactics of each individual battle that grips the attention. There are some predeployed battles, but you choose what to deploy, whether it's direct/indirect combat units, attacking or defensive strategies, land, sea or air units. You also have to deal with fog, rain, snow affecting the weather conditions.

I was hooked from the start - in fact this is probably the first game that I started playing regularly on the DS (and so is now responsible for my mini-addiction!).