Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Nintendo Wii

the second sequel to the original Super Smash Bros. I would have to say that this game is a bit different than the first two. The roster of the game is about the same but there are more unique characters with different move sets than Melee. The moves have changed a little bit so it takes a bit of getting used to but once you've learned everything playing this game is like second nature when you have played the other two.

The items are more advanced, there are more things to do and there is even a small storyline involved in the game as well. One of the biggest features of this game is something called the smash ball. When you have it it gives you an obscene advantage in the game and it allows you do some really amazing and cool stuff. The effects of the smash ball are pretty fun to watch and look at it and gives a nice picture for you to take.

The only major flaws about this game is probably some of the stuff that the developers didn't not notice. One of them is the chain grabbing. Certain characters have the ability to grab you consistently over and over again without you being able to do anything. Of course I don't really care that they implemented this skill. There is not much to say about it except that all games have their flaws and you should just deal with it.

This game is pretty fun. It took me a while to get the hang of it, since it's a bit different from the previous versions..mainly in the way to handle the remotes, but you do have the option of playing this game with a regular control or even the control from gamecube. The game is pretty the same as it has always been, except with a few more characters and different lands to fight in. This game is more fun when played with many, I think..but even alone, it's still a pretty fun game. Go ahead and try it out. If you were a fan of melee, then I think you'll definitely be a fan of brawl.

I just don't get a lot of satisfaction out of this game...

It's just fighting... is that it? Fighting Nintendo characters... hmmm...

I get bored with this pretty fast. After all the hype I thought this would be more engaging than it turned out to be. Maybe I got bored before finding the real entertainment value here. I'm just kind of ho-hum about it.

I'd say rent before you buy and see if you think this is all that fun.

Is it fair for me to review this game if i rented it? is it also fair if i only rented this game because i needed to get something after being told that Mario Kart was not available?

Of course it is, youre not the boss of me!

After hearing all the positive reviews for this game I thought i had a solid back up and would have an entertaining game.

I think the creators of this game are stretching the truth a bit with the "Super" in the title, at the most it was just Smash Brothers Brawl.

The action is fast and frenzied but i just thought it would be alot more fun to punch Pikachu in his stupid face.

There aren’t many games floating around where you can take part in a mascot filled steel cage death match, but the Super Smash Brothers franchise proved that it could be done and be done well. The third iteration in the franchise is Super Smash Brothers Brawl (SSBB) for the Nintendo Wii. I’ll admit that I haven’t played a Smash Bros. game since the original, but the only reason for that is because my social circle is quite slim, but I’ve always had a good amount of respect for the series.

Story:

Well for the first time ever there’s actually some kind of story taking place in the series. In past iterations of the series you would just fight a series of opponents until you get to Master Hand, but it’s different now. Apparently the villains from several of Nintendo’s key franchises (Ganondorf, Bowser) have teamed up and are capturing people by turning them into trophies using some weird gun that shoots arrow lines at them. They also appear to be aided by machines comprised of dark matter. In between each chapter you’re treated with a rather nice looking CGI scene and for some odd reason you’ll see Mario go into some kind of Kung Fu stance. It’s by far nowhere near as cheesy as seeing Elvis do Kung Fu, but it’s just not cool. The story is not really meant to be taken seriously anyway; it just exists to allow you to use certain characters and have something to do while you’re not knocking people off the screen during multiplayer.

Gameplay:

I never touched Melee and you can hurl verbal Molotov Cocktails at me all you want. Given the fact that I’m a little bit of an outsider to the franchise it allows me to just state one true fact. This game is friggin’ entertaining. There aren’t that many fighters out there where the result of the match can be just down right random at times. Granted skills count…they count for a lot actually, but no match is guaranteed to anybody. You can be down to your last guy and still crank out a win. Whether your opponent screws up and falls off the screen, you send him sky high using a charged attack or you stumble upon a Final Smash ball. If that doesn’t happen some of the stages attack you in some ways. I believe the two (haven’t played on all of them) that I’ve seen this the most in are the F-Zero and Mario Kart tracks.

The game mechanics behind SSBB are accessible enough to where anybody can just jump in and play; yet there are some complexities behind them. I’m personally still trying to get to the point where I can master one character, but I’m still at least decent enough to put up a worthy fight. I must say that I like the character roster a lot. Out of the characters that I have I love Link, Marth (from Fire Emblem), Pit (Kid Icarus) and Snake. A lot of the characters play differently, whether you like them slow and powerful or balanced there’s something for everyone. Link is pretty balanced with quick sword combos and distance attacks like the boomerang (he has the Windmill one from Twilight Princess) and his bow and arrow. I actually got good enough to discover a potent air combo with him that starts off as three juggling strikes on the ground and then I follow it up with the magic spin attack while up in the air. I don’t always hit with it, but when it connects the opponent has to try real hard to make it back on the ground.

I’m starting to get the hang of Snake and all of his explosives trickery. For some odd reason when I first got the character I kept accidentally planting a mine underneath me and then detonating it while I was still on top of it sending me skyward and looking like a noob in the process. After several matches (and a day later) like this I got the hang of it. These aren’t to attack people; they’re to trick people. Under the ensuing chaos that this game is known for I would just plant a mine and then start luring an opponent over next thing you know you see Snake whip out a detonator and push the button. The trail of smoke that would follow the enemy as he goes skyward is hilarious. On a side note though it’s safe to say that when you see a Final Smash ball enter the screen that there will be fights to get to it. These things are deal breakers. Whether it’s Olimar’s (Pikmin) where he blasts off into outer space or Fox’s, Falco’s or Wolf’s where they have a Landmaster Tank drop down and run you off the screen they can and will turn the tide of the battle.

This was one of the times where it dawned on me that it’s all just in good fun, it’s a fighting series in it’s own category. The competition level for the most part is friendly, but it’s just hard not to trash talk at times and everything about the versus aspect of the game is near perfect, some of my criticisms come from the Subspace Emissary mode. That thing is far too long and repetitive. It’s a series of different levels where you run around as a different character battling it out against enemies. It’s essentially just a platformer utilizing the fighting controls. The controls themselves aren’t the problem it’s the stage design. You have stages and jumping puzzles later in the game that require a lot of precision and there are so many random elements to it sometimes that you will find yourself losing characters that you normally would not have lost. That and by the time the third hour of it rolls by you’ll want it to be over already. And the scary thing is that at that third hour you’re only 33% done and of course you need to do this to unlock characters. There’s a simpler method to it, but depending on the character you want to unlock you’ll need to partake in a lot of versus matches. Other than this I thought the game was hilariously fun and well worth the crap load of hype that it gets.

Graphics:

Being that this is a Wii game (not knocking it) I’m liking what I’m seeing. The level design for the most part is excellent. There is so much activity going on in some of the levels that it’s mind blowing. Two examples are of the new Star Fox stage and the Shadow Moses stage. In the Star Fox stage you’re fighting on the ship as it’s zooming through space. Everything is normal until what looks like a battle starts to take place. There are explosions and all kinds of debris floating around and it’s great eye candy. I can also say it’s a distraction which would leave you open for a pounding if you pay too much attention to it.

The Shadow Moses stage is also excellent. It takes place in the area that you try to infiltrate in the game with the spotlights in the original Metal Gear Solid. It has walls at first that prevent knockouts from the side, but the walls break away. It becomes a really cool looking stage when the back wall breaks and you start seeing a Metal Gear stomp around. You will either see Metal Gear Ray, Rex or the Gekko’s; I have yet to see the Shagohad though. Notable stage mentions also go to the Pikmin stage and the desert recreation of Super Mario Brothers 1-1 world.

The character models also look a lot better than they did in Melee. The designs are a lot cleaner. One of my favorite one’s is one of Pit’s alternate costumes. It’s his all black costume and I just dubbed him “Emo/Goth Pit.” I also like Link’s Fire Temple costume. They’re like my pre-requisite costumes now and I always fight in them. The graphics are pretty nice and the game is stable with no sense of slow down. My only problem comes from the camera because there are a lot of times on certain stages where the camera is too far out making it look like grains of sand fighting.

Sound:

A lot of the music is good, I personally think it’s a little too drowned out, but that’s it. I know there are a lot of music options for you to customize that I haven’t fooled around with so getting to those will be pretty interesting. There’s about…well I don’t have an exact listing but I can safely say that there is a lot of music in the game. The sound effects themselves are also pretty good. I can’t really elaborate too much on them, but they seem a little recycled from some past games, but that’s not too much of a complaint.

Replay:

What will keep this game in your Wii (that actually sounds a little inappropriate) is the multiplayer. Now the game utilizes online multiplayer, which is good and bad at the same time. Because now you don’t need a bunch of people to get together and turn your living room into a competitive trash talk fest filled with plenty of vitriol, but this seems to come at the cost of lag. When you play with a friend utilizing a friend code it’s less of a problem…almost nonexistent actually, but with pure strangers it’s a hassle. There are times of slowdown and waiting for the match to start up takes a while. For entertainment they allow you to pound on a punching bag while waiting for the match to start. Other than that it’s a lot of fun with plenty of characters to unlock and plenty of events to play.

Overall:

Even if you wind up getting you ass kicked it’s still going to be something you enjoy as long as it’s by a good friend that you like cracking jokes with. If you have any friends that own a Xbox 360 and a Wii you can just private chat or set up a private room in a game so you can let the trash talk commence. If not you might have to find another way, but outside of that the game is a blast.

There are two ways to look at Smash Bros Brawl. You can look at it as strait fan service, or you can look at it as a fighting game.

If you look at this game as fan service, you will not be disappointed as this game packs so much Nintendo history that any fan will be glad to have this in their collection.

If you look at this game as a fighting game, you could be a little disappointed as the game is slightly unbalanced and, while chaotic and hectic, the game can be a tad to button mashie for some players.

Either way, SSBB is a great game and a great addition to any Nintendo fan's library. It can be fun it groups, and with the incorporated online play and extensive single player mode to unlock a ton of characters, it can provide a lasting experience as well.

This is one of the greatest party games you can have for the Nintendo Wii. It's just good old fashioned chaotic arena battle, with free for alls , teams, items, you name it. When it comes down to true competitive play however, you may want to take items off, so it comes down to true skill over lucky items and whatnot.

The game offers some of the most ultimate nintendo fanboy service with tons of references to many of the classics. The soundtrack remixes many of the original songs as well, and is epic in scope. The game bleeds Nintendo quality from its pores and it's truly an awesome experience.

Minor complaints - the forced methods of unlocking all of the characters are very much a grind. We bought this game to play with other people not grind through a lame single player (subspace emissary) adventure so let us just use all of the characters at least fairly easily! The multiplayer doesn't allow you to play with 2 people on your system VS random people online. I don't know why they gimped the multiplayer matching up so much but it really had potential there.

Still, a great game, and great value. Highly recommended (my Ike will pwn you).

I love this game! I've been a big super smash brothers fan since the start of it's first. At first I was a bit skeptical that the version on the Wii would be good, but after it's release I was wrong! It's just as good as the last! Using the nunchuck and the wii remote was hard at first, but after getting used to it, it wasn't so bad. If you really can't get used to the wii remote, you can always plug in the old game cube controllers on the Wii.

This game has a lot of unlockable characters, maps, and music. Unlocking all the characters takes a lot of time and is somewhat tedious, but there are ways around that! You can set a custom brawl and put a flower on the computers head, and set their life to 1HP. The flower will automatically do 1 damage a second, making the fastest win possible. If you do this about 500 times, you will unlock the final character in the game, Wolf.

Another great feature of this game is that you can play online with friends or with random strangers. It's nice when you really want to play and don't have any friends over.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is perhaps the greatest game ever created in all the years Nintendo has been in business. The game itself incorporates not only the latest in gaming graphics but also all of Nintendo's greatest gaming characters including Mario, Luigi, Samus, Link, and Donkey Kong, just to name a few. Super Smash Brothers Brawl even made Sonic, who was originally Sega Genesis' mascot and Solid Snake from PlayStation's original hit Metal Gear Solid, join Nintendo's impressive character selection, taking the grand total up to 35 playable characters. Each character has their pros and cons depending on which of the forty-one stages you choose. Super Smash Brothers Brawl allows anywhere from one to four players to go toe to toe with their favorite Nintendo characters. Tired of beating your little sister and brother in a game you know has so much more potential? Don't fret, Super Smash Brothers Brawl also allows the game owner to connect to the world-wide-web so he/she can play with friends next door, the next state over, or even the next continent over.

The third installment of Nintendo’s massively popular series pits the finest heroes from video game history in an all out...well brawl. Expecting a slipshod, money hungry sequel that has been seen far too many times before? Well this isn’t one of them. SSBB builds upon the attributes of its predecessors and expands.

The strongest selling point in any fighting game is the multiplayer, which certainly delivers in this case. Tired of that long, lonely adventure mode? Toss a friend a controller and follow the RPG-esque storyline together. Do those little mini challenges get on your nerves after awhile? Try something different by doing the 2-man challenges and test out your teamwork. Of course there’s always the old school general brawl: including varying and attractive maps with fun items. Brawl even takes it up a notch with the ability to craft your own clever stages. Create a pit of death laugh as your friends fall to their doom then cringe when they do the same by building their own amusingly wicked creations. The handy dandy Wi-Fi connection lets you play with friends from the comfort of their own homes or slap around a few anonymous strangers, flexing your e-muscles for the crowd.

Beautiful…but perfect? The joy of playing as your favorite video game star can make your eyes glaze over and be blissfully ignorant of the, though relatively few, flaws in the game. The biggest being the clones, though Nintendo does score points for tweaking each one enough to make their move sets a tad bit different. It still gets bothersome when you find yourself in a fight with Fox, Falco AND Wolf using near identical moves.

Another downer is the replay value. Just as many RPG’s have a one time play through, the adventure mode is good for only a few go-arounds before it gets somewhat tiresome. And once you’ve managed to beat the 100-man melee or brawled 42 times on so and so stage or hit the sandbag a zillion yards there’s really not much else to do besides pound on the computer characters. All that’s left to do is put it down and walk away for a few weeks. Though this could be considered quite the plus for parents who can’t seem to drag their kids away from the television screen.

SSBB is a unique game in its own right. Anyone that played Melee on Game Cube competitively will be a little disappointed at first. This is not Melee in any sense of the word. There is no longer wave dashing, shffling, directional influence is weakened and half the technical tricks possible in Melee no longer exist in Brawl. Fox trotting is still there though.

There is now also the random tripping factor when dashing. Personally I think they put this in there just to keep Brawl from being a tournament competitive game.

There are more characters and the means to open them is definitely more straightforward. Many of the new maps aren't really that impressive in my opinion. Anyone interested in competitive play will still be doing it on Final Destination.

I think any Smash fan will enjoy this new addition to the series. It does not have the competitive aspect of Melee yet, and many people are disappointed at the removal of technical tricks like wave dashing. Nonetheless, I think new tricks will be discovered or invented with time and Brawl will become at least as entertaining if not more so than Melee.

I am far from a video game aficionado. But when I saw the ads for Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii, I couldn't resist. A matchup between Mario and Pikachu? Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, and more-- all the old favorites are here. Come on, how awesome is that? Besides, you can have 4 players. I immediately envisioned me, my husband, and our kids in family-fun death matches.
The day it came out, I toted my family to Costco. The rating gave me momentary pause: T. Would my 6 and 8 year olds be able to play?
Yes. The violence that gives it the T rating (teen) is only cartoon, not gory. So Pit (the angel guy) hits Mario with his angelic sword and Mario falls off the platform-- no biggie. He merely floats back down again.
I really like the graphics on this one. You can choose from a variety of worlds. My favorite is an Etch-a-Sketch world, where the line drawings appearing in the background turn into 3-D parts of the game. There's a lot going on while you fight; you don't just face off in a ring. You might have to dodge flaming meteors while you try to oust your opponent, for instance, or continue on to other levels while you're fighting.
There are many layers and modes to choose from, even a Wi-Fi connection that I haven't figured out yet. It's a lot for an old-timer like me to handle. It'll be a year before I get to do all this game can do, which is fine with me; I like to get my money's worth.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is one of those games that is hard to review. On one hand, a critic could say that Brawl introduces precious little to change the core game play mechanics that have remained relatively unchanged since its initial debut on the Nintendo 64, and they would be right. On the other, in all honestly, it doesn't really matter. Not at all.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is insanely fun. It's taken everything that the first two titles so much fun, refined everything, and then just for kicks, tossed in a lengthy single player, a plethora of more stages, more items, online multiplayer and a bunch of more characters. Heck, they even managed to toss Sonic and Solid Snake into the mix too. If that's not fan service, I'm not sure what is.

The graphics look sharp in 480p and the framerate rarely dips. The audio is also impressive with a soundtrack that ranges everywhere from the Mario theme to the Metal Gear Solid theme.

Admittedly, Brawl is not perfect. Some of the stages are pretty stupid (New Pork City I'm looking at you) and online matches are only truly fun when you're playing with people on your friend list. For some reason, you are unable to customize your matches when playing against random players. Also, the single player mode, while lengthy, is also linear, repetitive, boring and only for those looking to unlock all the game's different playable characters and hidden items. So yeah, you'll have to endure playing through it if you want to ensure you have access to the full character roster. Which you will.

If you never liked Super Smash Bros, Brawl is going to do nothing to change your mind. It's relatively the same game only with tons of new stuff that makes it even more fun for fans of the franchise. However, if you liked Super Smash Bros, whether as a casual player who wants to see their favorite Nintendo characters or a hardcore expert who knows what "edge-guarding" and "wave-hopping" means, Super Smash Bros Brawl is easily the Must-Buy party game of the year.

Since this was the third game in the series I had very high hopes for it. I was very satisfied with the gameplay however I was dissapointed that it was very similar to the gamecube version (which I never bought). Super Smash Brothers for Nintendo 64 was still a better game, but this game does allow for play over the internet so it was well worth the $50. Characters are similar but not the same as gamecube and they have an adventure mode which takes a lot more time than the typical classic mode.
So when it comes down to buying a game for your Nintendo Wii, I can't think of a better one to buy right now...besides guitar hero III.
Also a suggestion if you purchase this game, play it with the gamecube controllers because the wii remotes are not really smash friendly, though if you've never played before it wouldn't be a problem.

I was walking around the mall a couple days ago and the sign in the window of one of the game stores caught my eye. The sign was for Super Smash Brothers Brawl for Wii. I in fact had just bought a Nintendo Wii the day before so I was intrigued. I went into the store and bought the game and took it home and put it in the Wii. The game was fairly easy to pick up, and the moves and controls were explained fairly well in the manual. For someone that isn't exactly video game savvy(the market that the wii mostly aims for) the game might turn out to be a bit difficult. The mini games(mainly the home run contest) are a bit hard to understand and there isn't much explanation in the booklet. I'm sitting there in the home run contest mini game hitting this beanbag over and over again getting anywhere from 0-8 feet(which is terrible). so I finally just started messing around with the controls and finally figured out that you have to hold down the attack key and hit the beanbag at the exact right time to get it to work correctly.

All in all the game is a blast. It's just as fun to play as the previous versions, but the ease of navigation and gameplay for new users might be a little more difficult than they were shooting for.

I know for a fact that this game is going to be an awesome one. Super Mario is one of the greatest games out there for every single system and I think this game is going to be a big hit. I really think that this game is going to be sold out for weeks because after playing a demo of it in Circuit City I really enjoyed it. There is entirely nothing at all wrong with this game or another Mario game out there who ever created these games are geniouses because this is one of the greatest generation of games out there. This game get 5 out of 5 stars from me.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is going to be a great game!

I'm a huge fan of Samus fighter (though admittedly not a very good one, haha), I'm really looking forward to playing SSBB with some new characters. I loved playing as G&W last time around, just for the novelty, and I'm looking forward to playing with sonic. Wario seems like he might be a button masher but that's always fun. I pray that the Bonk, gets put in as a playable. Too bad Neo-Geo didn't really have an official mascot (not sure if they did?), or we could have a 4 way mascot brawl of the big-time 80s/90s consoles, which were the best times!

This game will sell out come release date in march (03/09/2008), so if you can pre-order it somewhere I definitely recommend doing that now. Super Smash Bros already sold a million dollars in china.

Also, gamers should know if you want to get your brawl on early..there are contest going on this month and next.

Here is a link to more information on the contest,
http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=14627


For more information on the game, check out the official website here:
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/