Super
Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
What
is it?
Super Smash Bros Melee was a game that was made for
the Nintendo GameCube. This is a crossover fighting game which was designed in
2.5D. It was officially released in Japan in November 2001. Super Smash Bros
Melee was designed by HAL Laboratory. The head designer for Super Smash Bros
Melee was Masahiro Sakurai. This game takes characters from other Nintendo
games, but also has new characters that were not previously seen in Nintendo
games. Super Smash Bros Melee sold over seven million copies by March 2008.
This is the second game in the Super Smash Bros series. The metacritic score
for this is ninety two out of one hundred.
Objective
of the Game
When you first start the game up you have eighteen
stages right out of the box. You will be able to unlock eleven more stages
while playing the game.
The game has two main game modes that you can choose
from. The two game modes are single player and multiplayer. There are more game
modes within each of the main game modes which will be listed below.
In single player you choose a character then you
start to fight various opponents to unlock new characters. You also have go
through mini challenges before you make it to the boss round. To unlock new
characters you must defeat the boss and then defeat the character that you can
unlock. There are a few game modes that can be played in single player. The
modes are classic mode, adventure mode, all-star mode, event match, stadium,
and training. You also get character trophies after you beat all the stages in
single player mode.
In multiplayer mode you can have up to four controllers
connected at once. You play against each other. The game modes for multiplayer
are versus mode, special melee, and tournament mode. In special melee there are
different modes you can play. The special melee modes are camera mode, super
sudden death, giant melee, tiny melee, invisible melee, slo-mo melee,
fixed-camera mode, single-button melee, lightning melee, and stamina mode.
Game
Characters
Super Smash Bros Melee has twenty six characters
that you can choose from to play as. Fifteen characters are included in the
game right out of the box. Players will be able to unlock the other eleven
characters while playing through the game. Some of the characters in the game
are from the original Super Smash Bros. There are also non-playable characters
in Super Smash Bros Melee. The non-playable characters are Master Hand, Crazy
Hand, Giga Bowser, Male Wireframe, Female Wireframe, Sandbag, and Solo Ice
Climber.
The characters in the game had simple moves. In
Super Smash Bros Melee, the characters do not have the ability for long combos
like other fighting games have.
Other
Games That Spawned
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Nintendo Wii (2008)
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U (2014)
Personal
Experience
I have a Nintendo GameCube and I currently own this
game. It is a lot of fun because it has a unique fighting game experience. This
is a game that a lot of my friends like to play when they come over. We
sometimes have fighting tournaments. The best part of this game is when you
unlock a new character as well as the credits at the end where you shoot the
names out of the sky. My favourite characters to play as are Kirby, Link,
Marth, Roy, and Samus. I like to play as those characters because to their
abilities. The various game stages make the game interesting because of the
various differences in each stage. For example, on Icicle Mountain you need to
battle your opponent while climbing up the mountain cause if you don’t make it
up the mountain you will die.
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