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multiplayer gold!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Super Smash Bros. Melee is, as I said above, multiplayer gold. However, there is much more than multiplayer in this game. Below, I will review the game briefly covering everything.
First, I will review the game's single player.

There are five single player modes available when you first begin the game: Classic, Adventure, Event, Stadium and Training. I will review each mode one at a time.

Classic Mode........................................

Classic mode is very straightforward. First, you select the character you want to play, and then you start the game. The gameplay goes like this: you will fight multiple enemies one at a time, sometimes you will fight whole teams of enemies at once, and sometimes you will fight alongside a few allies against one giant enemy. Also, there are some bonus stages to play in- between some of the matches. After you beat all of the stages, you will be pitted against a boss. After you beat the boss, you will earn a trophy.

Adventure Mode........................................

Adventure mode is like a sidescrolling game of its own. You select a character, and then start the game. The gameplay goes like this: you play through 12 levels of non-stop enemy smashing, door finding, and danger avoiding. After you finish all of the levels, you earn a trophy.

Event Mode........................................

Event Mode is a combination of both Classic and Adventure Modes. When you select the mode, there is a list of missions that you need to complete in order to beat the entire game. As I said above, these missions are made up of both classic and adventure mode games. The missions range from beating up a giant version of DK to running away from super fast cars. The more matches you complete, the more matches become available to you.

Stadium Mode........................................

Stadium Mode is made up of three minigames: target test, homerun contest, and multiman melee.

In Target Test, you select your character, and then you must destroy 10 small targets places in multiple places on a strange floating group of platforms and tunnels.

In Homerun Contest, you select your character, and then you must hit a bag full of sand as far as you can.

In Multiman Melee, you select your character, and then you must beat up multiple wireframe enemies.

Training Mode........................................

In Training Mode, you can learn how to play the game, test out different characters, and learn basic gameplay strategies.

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Now that I have covered Single Player Mode, I will cover multiplayer. There are 3 multiplayer modes available when you first begin the game: melee, special melee, and tournament mode.

Melee........................................

In melee, you can play by yourself or with friends against either computer controlled bots or other human players. You can do free for all matches or team matches. The gameplay is basically straightforward smashing other players, and there are multiple stages to fight on, as well as weapons and items to use.

Special Melee Mode........................................

There are ten types of special gameplay modes in special melee mode, each of which has its own unique rules and style. Their names pretty much explain themselves, but I will briefly review each one.
Camera Mode: player 4 can take snapshots of the other three players that can be viewed later on, and saved to your memory card.
Giant Melee: All of the players are huge.
Stamina Mode: If you run out of health, yer' out!
Tiny Melee: All the players are tiny.
Super Sudden Death: One hit can destroy you!
Fixed Camera Mode:Instead of following the action, the camera stays zoomed way out, making it difficult to keep track of your character.
Invisible Melee: All players are invisible.
Lightning Melee: All players move super fast.
Single Button Mode: You only use the control stick and A button to fight.
Slo-Mo Melee: All players move super slow.

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Now that I have covered the gameplay, I will review the games other features.

Lottery: use coins earned in single player and multi player to get trophies! The more coins you use, the higher your chance of getting a new trophy.

Gallery: veiw your trophies!

Data: well, this mode explains itself. View your records, snapshots, etc.

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Characters: When you first begin the game, you can play as the following characters:
Mario
Bowser
Peach
Link
Zelda.... who can transform into Sheik
Sheik.... who can transform into Zelda
Picachu
Yoshi
Donkey Kong
Fox
Captain Falcon
Ness
Samus
Ice Climbers, and...
Kirby

Each character has his/her own unique attacks and abilities.

The reason I have given this game 5 stars is because of its ability to maintain interest; how fun it is, and just because I like mastering a character's abilities and beating up enemies.
The only downside to this game is how hard some of the gameplay modes can be. Besides that, this game is a must-buy. If you have a gamecube, pick this game up!

This can't be true.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 34
Date: February 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Why the heck is this rated T?

WHAT CAN I SAY,SSBMELEE IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I tried this today in the Nintendo tour.This is a great game!!!!!
I would recommend this to anyone even though it is a T game for parents that check the ratings.Anyway,this game is cool!!!!!!The controls are very simple and there are more characters than in SuperSmashBrothers for N64.There are more secret charecters also.The new characters are,just to name a few,are Sheik,Princess Peach,Bowser,and the Ice Climbers.The game is just plain cooooool!!!!!!!!!!!

5 stars isn't enough...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

From what I have heard about this game, it is going to be one of the best games for the gamecube ever. To tell the truth, I haven't even played the original SSB, but this game has so many cool features that I couldn't help but to beg my mom to get it for me for Christmas. I also know some secret characters:
Mewtwo,(Gasp!) Pichu, Gannon,(GASP!!!) roy,(???) young link,
Falco (from Starfox 64) Dr. Mario (How's he different?), Mr. Game and watch (Who's he?)and probably others. There are also cool modes of play, such as boss battles, Big-dude battles where your opponent is huge, and adventure mode. And also:
DON'T BE A IDIOT AND SAY THIS GAME (...). This game deserves more than 5 stars.

A good multiplayer game that fails to live up to the hype

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

SSBM is a very fun game, quite appropriate for inviting two or three friends over for some good Vs. battles. There's also enough single-player stuff to do to keep a single person occupied, and the Homerun Contest and Break the Targets minigames are great fun and challenging (though if you simply look up strategies on the internet and slavishly copy the work of others, you'll gain excellent records at the cost of draining all the fun out of these games).

However, the game quickly gets old. Once the single-player features have been beaten, the game loses much of its value. It just doesn't have a lot of replay value. The lasting value of the game depends on the multiplayer modes, and the game is certainly above average and good fun when smashing friends, but it is inferior in this aspect to the N64 game, Super Smash Brothers. The controls on the GCN are pretty pathetic, the buttons seeming very insensitive and unresponsive, so you may have to mash them furiously to get any moves to occur on the screen. Two changes from the previous game "dumbed down" combat so as to give weaker players a better chance. Combos are much more difficult both because of the unresponsiveness of the controls and because moves are less "fluid" and the opponent always has time to react after your move; this reduces combat to random damage-hacking and button-mashing, clearly helping weaker players who needn't worry about mastering combos.

It is unfortunate that the game felt it could only fix the degenerate characters and combos of the previous game by seriously reducing the effect skill has on combat. At a certain point, one must simply mash the right buttons hard enough and hope to hit the opponent more than he hits back. Another randomizing factor in the sequel is the appeance of items: they appear much more frequently and all over the place. The items themselves are weaker and, again, do not lend themselves to skillful use as much as the items in the first game, so they are little more than extensions of the "hack and damage" style of combat in this game. The game reduced the effectiveness of the hammer, but in my opinion the hammer was never truly degenerate - it simply took some skill in the first game to disarm your opponent of it. In fact, against a skilled player, the immobility and vulnerability inherent in using the hammer could actually give better chances to the player without the item!

In summation, single-player modes get old fast so the lasting value of this game depends on the multiplayer game. If you find yourself frustrated at pressing buttons and having little happen, and at combat where wins are highly dependent on random factors and not the player's skill (thus, dependent on something the player cannot ever improve in), this game will be disappointing. It's a decent fighting game but worth no more than three stars, and a massive disappointment compared to the first game, which was easily five stars.

Fun for the Whole Family!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The GameCube has some great titles that can keep you occupied for weeks on end. Super Smash Brothers Melee is definitely one of these. It's fun for the whole family!

In essence, the game is the same as the Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Brothers. This game was brilliant - for the first time you could see all of your N64 characters - Zelda, Link, Pikachu, Kirby, etc. - in one game, interacting with each other. There were random powerups from all of the games, and the levels and soundtracks were perfect. It was really amazing to see Yoshi up against Zelda in a StarFox background with the music.

Super Smash Brothers Melee upgrades the game for the GameCube, adding new characters, new modes, new graphics and sound. Once again you have a variety of ways to play. You can do an "adventure mode" which really just means you play through a series of levels to an "ending boss battle" to win. There are many player-vs-player battles too, with up to 3 opponents.

It's not a full fledged fighting game. There aren't multitudes of move combinations to work out. But it IS great fun anyway! The moves they do are all imaginative and fun. The powerups you find are also quite inventive. There are trophies and special characters and levels to earn as you play more and more, giving you incentive to keep playing. You gotta unlock them all!

It's not really a thinking game. There aren't any great puzzles to figure out, no characters to develop, no long quests to go on. But many times, you don't want that in a game. Like Tetris and Bejewelled, you just want to kick back, relax, and have some mindless fun. SSBM provides that in great abundance!

A great game for any GameCube owner!

For kids or not?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A game in which just about every classic Nintendo character beats the phooey out of every classic Nintendo Character. What is there not to like? No blood is exchanged here either. A fighter without blood that rocks ... Nintendo is innovative. Aside from the no blood, legendary characters and crazy fun locations, you have mini-games and power-ups out the yin yang. In short, the power ups and the mini games are way fun. The power ups rule the game. From baseball bats to the SNES light gun. WOW. Finally, the unlockable characters will have you playing forever and ever. This games shelf life will be limitless. I'm on board for whatever sequel they come up with at whatever price.

Bottom Line: Is it fun? Incredible game. Will I keep it? You bet. It has infinite replay value. Good for kids? Well it is just fighting. It is cartoony and fun, but that doesn't stop my kids from enacting the fighting scenes when they are done playing the game.

Four player mayhem with Nintendo's greatest mascots

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, before I start this review, I should probably offer this disclaimer: I am not a fan of fighting games in general. I've never played Tekken, DOA, Soul Calibur, or any of those others. In fact the last fighting game I owned was Super Street Fighter 2 for the SNES. The reason, I guess, is that I just absolutely hated the combo systems that seemed to be standard for those types of games. You know, the old 'left, down, right, a + b' executions that were necessary just to pull off a single move. I know a lot of hardcore fighting fans live for that kind of thing, but for me it was just needlessy complicated and ultimately detracted from the experience.

So it's no wonder that I find this game so much more appealing. Every move is executed with a button and a direction on the control stick. Thats as complicated as it gets. Easy to learn, but theres so much depth to this game it's ridiculous. There are tons of items you can pick up that add new twists to the fighting mechanics, many of the environments are interactive (via rotating or transforming stages, moving cameras, or lightning fast hovercraft that knock you off screen), different gameplay modes (try slow-motion melee for Matrix style combat)and many hidden characters to unlock. Not to mention the nearly 300 trophies that can be collected.

The meat of this game is definitely in the multiplayer modes, but the single player modes are pretty deep as well, and necessary for unlocking many of the game's secrets. They include the adventure mode, where you play through sidescrolling levels from classic Nintendo games, Home-Run contest, where you try to smash a sandbag distances of over 1000 ft, or you can test your mettle at an unlimited wave of CPU opponents, or see if you can last for 15 minutes (not nearly as easy as it sounds).

Super Smash Bros. Melee is unlike any other fighter out there, and as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing.

bravo!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is probably the best game I have for my gamecube and is probably in the top 20 games for gamecube of all time. even though the game came out like six years ago the graphics are still crisp and gameplay isn't cheap.
PROS- Graphics are beautiful, tons of classic and new characters, multiplayer is awesome, And brand new game options. CONS- There really are no cons but 1player mode needs work. My conclusion is that the game is very fun and a must have for gamecube owners

AN EXELLENT GAME?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After much waiting Super Smash Brothers Melee (SSBM) is here.
Its a game with 20 characters, old characters, but with new look. NEW and better inprove graphics. Its worth your money!!
Buy it as soon it arrives at AMAZON. "You wont regret it!"

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