Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
Engage the rage with Super Smash Bros. Brawl! The third installment of the incredibly successful Super Smash Bros. series is now on the Wii, The roster is longer than ever, but that just means more butt to kick across over a dozen different, graphic-rich stages with original moves, new modified moves, and a brand-new super attack called Final Smash! Old favorites like Mario, Link, Peach and Kirby are now joined by such exciting newcomers as Wario, Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog. With a variety of new modes, an absolutely epic soundtrack and the ability to play with distant friends through online multiplayer, this is a game you'll have to break your own fingers to put down. Original soundtrack from 36 different artists Online Multiplayer ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-16 rating:
Not as good as the first two.
To preface this review: I love the first two smash games. Also, a 2nd party developer known as HAL Laboratory developed them. HAL did not, however, develop Brawl; Sora Ltd did. And I think that's why this game is not as good as the first two.

The same thing happens when you hand off Zelda to a Russian company to make games on the CDi, or when you allow another company to make "Mario is Missing." It gets ugly. Well that's what happened with Brawl. Sakurai, the lead developer of HAL, left the company to start his own--Sora Ltd, and they made the game. Here are the eleven ways that Sora kind of ruined the experience:

1. Tripping. Sometimes, when you try to do a dash, your character will fall flat on his face. This is--for a lack of better wording--stupid.

2. Stickers in versus mode. Who wants those to appear when you're trying to have an intense battle?

3. Trophies from the Zelda series. Wow...none of them are from the older games, they're all mostly from Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Melee had trophies from games old and new.

4. Subspace Emissary is extremely boring, and even though I beat it once, I cannot bring myself to ever play it again.

5. Ledge-grabbing. Now, you don't even have to be facing a ledge to grab it, nor do you have to be within 6 feet of it.

6. Clones. Sakurai stated firmly that he wanted no more clones in Brawl because he didn't like them in Melee...well, you got rid of Dr. Mario, but added Wolf, who is a clone of Fox and Falco. You replace Young Link with Toon Link, who both have the exact same movesets. You did de-clone Mario and Luigi, however...you made Luigi fall on his noggin after doing Up-B and you replaced Mario's Tornado with FLUDD, which is a useless move. Uh...good job?

7. Only one file. In Melee, you could have different save files by having another memory card. Brawl doesn't do that--it only allows different subspace emissary files, but nothing more. The SD Card can't even hold another Brawl file. Essentially, you'd need to buy another Wii to have a separate file, and that would be a big waste.

8. Unlocking characters is far too easy in this game. You can just play subspace emissary on easy mode and find them as part of the story. There's no challenge to it whatsoever.

9. Target Test. There are no longer any unique target test courses for each character--they're all the same for everybody.

10. Unlocking stages. Like the characters, this has become far too easy.
11. Physics. All the characters are very "floaty" and they run kind of slow. It's not fast-paced.

So it gets only 3 stars despite having all these shortcomings.

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review by: date: 2008-08-15 rating:
Review by my 4 1/2 year old:
My son loves this game and wants to play it all day. It took a while for him to get the hang of the controller and now he's a pro. He played for a long time on the practice rounds, easy level, in order to get comfortable with the controller. He really loves to be able to choose the different characters and different backgrounds. He also just likes to sit and watch while Daddy plays. It seems like it's rated T because of the complexity of the controller, not because it's violent. I mean, you don't see blood or anything, more like cartoon violence.

Here is the review given word-for-word by my 4 1/2 year old:
"I like it. My favorite part is where you get to play adventure and you break out one of the guys it gives you a little bat or something else. Favorite character is Donkey Kong. Kirby is the best fighter. You get to pick different people. It's really good and it had different challenges. Buy it because it's so fun and stuff."

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review by: date: 2008-08-11 rating:
this game is sooooooo addicting
i have been playin Smash since 99 and this one is the best of all more characters improved graphics and online every wii owner should have this must-have game

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review by: RTL date: 2008-08-06 rating:
Great Game for the whole family!
Although I am one of those gamers born and raised in the "Gamer age" of coin operated games, I continue to do so today. I am proud to see y young son get so much into games and characters that I group up with. Sadly some of the games that he plays are a bit too simple for me but this is one game that we the whole family can play. Even my wife who is not good at games tha much loves to play this game. we started by renting the game and then bought it after my wife could not stop playing this for the past five days of the rental. Nintendo has done a great job in mixing the Mario Party game genere in with a sense of level completion play as well. Unlock new characters and levels to play and add to the fun. This game has a high replayability level and it is dynamic play at that. Add to that the fact that all ages can play and the levels/games can be set to levels that everyone can have fun while playing. We have even started an intrahouse competetion and have mixed up the play buy having the various house members change their partners for "Game night." While I don; think anything can take the place of getting out and playing with the family together, I feel that MP8 does a really good job and having a fun game that the whole family can play together and that is priceless/.


review by: date: 2008-08-04 rating:
Fun Game
Super Smash Bros. Brawl continues on what Nintendo did in Melee. The game is fun and the new modes are great.

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