Brief background: I run an Advance Wars website as a hobby, and its more-or-less the home for the hardcore AW community. Whenever a new game is announced I'm amazed at how much real info they can glean from blurry videos and a couple pics.
It's no exception this time around. Here's the AWDS2 discussion board, where everyone is sorting through what is known about the game:
http://www.advancewarsnet.com/forums...p?showforum=33
Some notes about the (very) dark plot have been revealed, and they're the reason I'm making this thread:
Translated pretty roughly:
""huge meteors had struck the earth
heat had burnt the world
earthquake had smashed the world
tsunami had swallowed the world
90% of mankind have died. "
Other things members have translated:
-near the Laboratory-
Rin saying:we're in trouble at living with a bit food, and moreover,unknown diseases are there...
Ed: No one is here too ... have everyone died? everyone...
...yeah. Apparently IntSys learned their lesson with the previous three Advance Wars games, where the COs were 11 years old and were basically playing war with each other, presumably killing thousands of troops in the process. "Wow! That was a fun battle. We should do it again sometime!" This time IntSys went in the opposite direction, killing "90% of mankind," ha.