Super Smash Bros. Melee

10 OUT OF 10

Director and Writer: Masahiro Sakurai
Developer: HAL Laboratory
Publisher: Nintendo
Video Game Platform: Nintendo GameCube

Released:

November 21, 2001 (Japan)
December 2, 2001 (North America)
May 24, 2002 (Europe)
May 31, 2002 (Australia)

(10/10)This game featured 14 starting characters:

Mario
Pikachu
Bowser
Peach
Yoshi
Donkey Kong
Captain Falcon
Fox McCloud
Kirby
Samus
Zelda/Sheik
Link
Ness
Ice Climbers

And 11 unlockable (secret) characters:

Dr. Mario
Falco
Ganondorf
Jigglypuff
Luigi
Marth
Young Link
Mewtwo
Mr. Game & Watch
Pichu
Roy

There are 18 starting stages:

Brinstar (Smaus)
Corneria (Fox)
Fountain of Dreams (Kirby)
Great Bay (Young Link)
Green Greens (Kirby)
Icicle Mountain (Ice Climbers)
Jungle Japes (D.K.)
Kingdom (Mario)
Kongo Jungle (D.K.)
Mute City (C. Falcon)
Onett (Ness)
Pokémon Stadium (Pikachu)
Princess Peach's Castle (Peach)
Rainbow Cruise (Mario)
Temple (Zelda/Link)
Venom (Fox)
Yoshi's Island (Yoshi)
Yoshi's Story (Yoshi)

And 11 secret stages:

Battlefield
Big Blue (C. Falcon)
Brinstar Depths (Samus)
Final Destination
Flat Zone (Mr. Game & Watch)
Fourside (Ness)
Kingdom II (Mario)
Poké Floats (Pikachu)
Dream Land (N64; Kirby)
Kongo Jungle (N64; DK)
Yoshi's Island (N64; Yoshi)

Single Player:

Classic Mode (Beat a number of preset stages in a row)
Adventure Mode - Refer to the sites below
All Star Mode (Unlockable) - Refer to the sites below
Event Match (Total of 51 preset stages - each one played separately)
Stadium:
• Home-run Contest (Hit a sandbag as far as possible)
• Target Test (Break as many of the targets as you can in a limited amount of time)
• Multi-man Melee - Refer to the sites below
Training Mode

Multi-Player:

Versus Mode
Special Melee - Refer to the sites below
Tournament Mode

Audio:

This game features many original songs and have some for each stage. With this high-quality music this game is made almost perfect if not already so.(10/10)

For more information:
http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/SSBM
http://guides.ign.com/guides/16387/
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Super Smash Bros. originally for N64

Super Smash Bros. was recently released for the Virtual Console on the Wii in 2009.

Super Smash Bros. was originally:

Directed by: Masahiro Sakurai
Composed by: Hirokazu Ando
Developed by: HAL Laboratory
Published by: Nintendo

(10/10)The first game Super Smash Bros. was originally for the N64 and was released on:

January 21, 1999 (Japan)
April 26, 1999 (N. America)
November 19, 1999 (Europe)

This game featured 8 starting characters:

Mario
Donkey Kong (DK)
Link
Samus
Yoshi
Kirby
Fox
Pikachu

And 4 unlockable (secret) characters:

Luigi
Ness
Captain Falcon (C. Falcon)
Jigglypuff

There are also 8 starting stages:

Peach's Castle (Mario and Luigi)
Yoshi's Island (Yoshi)
Congo Jungle (DK)
Dream Land (Kirby)
Hyrule Castle (Link)
Sector Z (Fox)
Planet Zebes (Samus)
Saffron City (Pikachu and Jigglypuff)

And 1 secret stage:

Mushroom Kingdom (Mario and Luigi)

There are also several non-playable characters that the player must face as enemies. These characters include:

Master Hand - The boss you must face in the last stage of single player.
Giant DK - A miniature boss that you must face on the way to Master Hand in single player mode.
Metal Mario - A miniature boss that you must face on the way to Master Hand in single player mode.

Single Player Mode:

This mode can be played on 5 different difficulty levels: very easy, easy, normal, hard, and very hard.

Single player mode consists of 14 stages, and 3 of them are bonus stages. Stage 4, 8, and 12 are all of the bonus stages.

The player must choose a character to play as, the difficulty level, and how many lives they should have (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5).

Multiplayer Mode:

As mentioned earlier, there are 12 playable characters and 9 stages. The player can face another player or computer. There are 4 open spaces - 1 for the 1st player and 3 for either computer players or human players. There are 4 costumes for each character (color change). There are 20 items that the player can decide if he/she wants to appear or not. For a list and description of these, click HERE.

Audio

The music in this game is very well designed and there are songs from almost every character's game if not every.(10/10)
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