Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 156 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496963156 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Nintendo of America Manufacturer: Nintendo of America Model: 45496960070 Platform: GameCube Publisher: Nintendo of America Release Date: September 07, 2001 Sales Rank: 228 Studio: Nintendo of America
Features:
It features a whole new set of characters, and some hidden ones for you to unlock
Create your own matches in the new Tournament Mode
New AI and smoother animation makes for a better game
Buy trophies of classic Nintendo characters such as Pit & Mach Rider
Product Description: Super Smash Brothers Melee is a great fighting game where you put your favorite Nintendo characters against each other, to find out who's the toughest of them all!
Amazon.com Review: Normally, Nintendo contract players such as Mario, Pikachu, Link, Donkey Kong, Bowser, and Kirby are generally happy and well-mannered, but in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the pleasantries get thrown out and the gloves (except for Mario's) come off. This update of the N64 favorite features these and other video game icons in furious, yet utterly absurd fisticuffs that usually make for a smashing good time. Just make sure you have at least one human opponent to pound on.
Starting off with 14 characters (an additional 11 are waiting to be unlocked), the game has a pretty standard premise--let Nintendo's stars beat on each other until the timer runs out. However, a lot of emphasis is put on knocking opponents off ledges while avoiding the same fate. In typical Nintendo manner, there are quite a few power-ups to assist you in the melee. The actual combat isn't as intricate as in other fighting games; however, the ultra-cartoony layout of the many, many arenas sometimes adds a strategic element not usually found in similar titles.
Super Smash Bros. Melee's strength lays in the mayhem created in four-player fights. The camera does an excellent job of positioning itself so all combatants are constantly visible. Also, Melee sports some of the best visuals seen in a Nintendo product. All the characters are highly detailed, and the movements of each are smoothly infused with personality. Donkey Kong lumbers and Princess Peach fights with grace.
As the multiplayer mode is the key reason for this game's existence, the single-player mode is decidedly weak. The game features an adventure mode that plays somewhat like an old-school, side-scrolling Mario game. Sadly, despite its good looks, its gameplay is rather uninspired. This game is clearly at its best when there are two or more players with controllers in their hands. --Mark Brooks
Pros:
Fantastic graphics and sound keep the action upbeat
Many new characters and other goodies to unlock
Cons:
Single-player experience is comparatively weak
Too cute for a few folks
Adventure mode is boring
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 8stars if i could
this game is awsome very fun like the first but this is better i still play this game till this day well brawl came out that looks the samething and theirs reviews saying that it was'nt that great stick with melee but otherwise this game is really fun and funny the way you knock your oppoinet hard than they hit the screen i always laugh when that happens awsome game and i love gamecube buy the way its a fun console that comes out with games that are really fun really better than shooting games cause shooting games you get board of but they made some shooting games for the gamecube that are better than ps2 and xbox cause its not as boring but this game is hot really fun
Rating: - My son loves this game!
This game was a repurchase for my son. He had this game once and broke it. He loves it so we bought it again for him. Can't wait for Super Smash Bros Brawl!
Rating: - Very Good Multiplayer
This game is extremely good with multiplayer. But it is one of those unbeatable games with unlimited levels and trophies to collect. Overall a very good game to play with a friend or two
Rating: - Super Smash Brothers: Consistent Fun
Smash Brothers, as a title/series (original for N64, Melee for Gamecube, and Brawl for Wii) is consistently enjoyable and fun. Great for parties/playing with friends or playing by yourself.
Rating: - The best smash bros. game out in America now.
The original doesn't hold a candle to this one.
I know I'm years and years late, with this, but I had to make one sometime!
This game as well as the first isn't only innovative, it's addictive.
Fun alone but a blast with a friend or three. :)
I miss the days when me and my cousin could play this for 2-4 hours at a time with next to no breaks!
I miss even more when another friend would come around and although he would lose most of the time, the 1 on 1 on 1 matches were almost always so damn heated.
This game only brings great joy and anticipation of what's to come in 2 days....:)
Fun: 4.5/5
Game Play: 4.5/5
Sound: 5/5 (the orchestras are the best)
Multiplayer: 4.25-5 (depending on how many people)
Character Choice: 5/5
Replay-ability: 4.5/5 (after years of playing, or if it's only you and another, 4.25/5. it gets boring MUCH quicker.)
I don't have a Wii (or want one at this point). However, I'm still anticipating Brawl.
I hope it doesn't let us down! My favorite has been Peach since the beginning. Well, in the very beginning, it was Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Ness.
But since she was introduced in this game, she's always been my favorite.
She whoops tail and then sails gracefully away with her parasol. Kill em, Peach!!
End note: (update:) After looking at a review or three, I'm sad to say that Brawl, the newest entry of the series seems to suffer from a bit of lag on and offline. I find that so disappointing because besides a little slowdown every little while or so, SSBM played PERFECTLY. It worries me but I'll just have to keep reading reviews.
- 8stars if i could
