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pika..... *SMASH* PIKA!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 26
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Frankly, one of the best (and most addictive) video games I've ever played.

If you don't know (or didn't play the first Super Smash Brothers on the N64), this is a fast-paced cartoonish fighting game where you can control (and beat up) characters from Nintendo's other games (such as Mario and Luigi, Link and Zelda, Kirby, Pikachu, Samus Aran, and lesser-known ones like the Ice Climbers). Its cute looks and deceptively simple controls (punch/kick, special move, jump, and block/throw) hide a surprisingly complex fighting game that will please players of any skill level. It's probably too confusing and fast-paced for little kids, but I'd heartily recommend it for anyone above the age of 10 or so.

There are three vastly improved single-player modes: straight fighting (much like the single-player from the first game), an "adventure" mode where you fight your way through various levels, and a series of fifty challenging "event" matches to test your skills. There's also an endurance mode (fight up to 100 opponents in a row) and a highly entertaining home-run contest.

Of course, the game is at its best with a group of people -- it supports up to 4 players duking it out at once, which is an absolute blast. You can also play on teams, and include computer-controlled fighters of various difficulty levels. There are dozens of characters and stages to fight on, and almost every aspect of combat can be adjusted (such as how much damage your characters do, how fast the game runs, and which items will appear during the battles).

It can take some time to unlock all of the game's hidden characters and levels, and beating the single-player mode without continuing (to get to the "real" boss) is *tough* on the higher difficulty settings. Its real replay value, though, is definitely in the multi-player mode. If you don't have 4 controllers and 3 friends, you might think twice about this, but otherwise, you can't go wrong.

Besides, you can whack annoying Pokemon upside the head with a baseball bat. And really, isn't that the whole point? ;)

Four Giant Bowsers stomping one little Pikachu, nuff' said!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 59
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, to get a full grasp of this game you have to have this picture in your mind:

Get two of your friends and your self to choose bowser as the character. Set the bot to be Pikachu. All three Bowsers get a power up to make them huge. Now get Pikachu a power up that would make him tiny. NOW STOMP THE RAT!!!

Four players at once, tons of nice levels of pure "melee". How can you go wrong with that. Might not be the technical fighter of Soul Caliber or Tekken, but the depth is huge. More modes of play that you can spank a monkey too. And for those who love the pokemon, Pikachu is not the only pokemon in the game. You can unlock three more, which I will not tell you what they are. Also you'll be able to unlock a certain Zelda villain, who will be nice and big... to stomp on all four pokemon. Pokemon Massacre!!! Take out all the frustration you have against the little buggers you want.

Have fun, this game is a sure fire way to get you to smile and have a good time.

Make way for the King of Fighters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Super Smash Bros. Melee. How to sum it up in one word? Amazing! Smash Bros. Melee is the sequel to the N64 version. All the Nintendo characters (if not, most of them) from the first game make a return. Plus there's a bunch of new characters like Zelda, Princess Peach and the retro characters the Ice Climbers. Also, throw in a handful of extra hidden characters and you got the fighter lineup. The modes of play are plentiful. There's the original tournament and there's also new modes like the Adventure mode, Coin mode and even a Homerun mode. Smash Bros. was one of the best multiplayer games on the N64. Smash Bros. Melee is no different. You can go up against 3 other CPU controlled characters or even better, get 3 of your friends and you'll have one pretty hectic game. Overall, this game is great for anyone, no matter if you're a newbie to this game or a long time fan.

#1 gamecube game on the market

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 41 / 63
Date: February 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? A multitude of characters from a variety of games. You start with Link,Samus,Captain Falcon,Fox,Kirby,Pickachu,Zelda\Shiek,Mario,Peach,Ice climbers,Ness,Yoshi,Bowser,and DK.You have to unlock Mewtwo, Young Link, Luigi, Marth, Roy,Dr.Mario,Gannondorf, Pichu,Jigglypuff, Falco, and Mr.Game and Watch. Stages include Infinite Glacier:Icicle Mountain,Mushroom Kingdom:Princess Peach's Castle, Mushroom Kingdom: Rainbow Cruise, DK Island:Kongo Jungle, DK Island:Jungle Japes,Termina:Great Bay,Hyrule:Temple, Yoshi's Island: Yoshi's Story, Yoshi's Island: Yoshi's Island, Dream Land:Fountain of Dreams,Dream Land:Green Greens,Lylat System:Corneria, Lylat System:Venom,Super Flat World:Flat Zone,Planet Zebes:Brinstar,Planet Zebes:Brinstar Depths,Eagleland:Onett,Eagleland:Fourside,F-Zero Grand Prix:Mute City, F-Zero Grand Prix:Big Blue,Kanto:Pokemon Stadium,Kanto Skies:Poke Floats,Mushroom:Kingdom,Mushroom:Kingdom 2,Special Stages:Battlefield,Special Stages:Final Destination,Past Stages:Dreamland,Past Stages:Yoshi's Island, and Past Stages:Kongo Jungle. There are a variety of modes including vs. mode. vs. mode can be broken down into 3 different modes. Melee- a standard battle with up to 4 people. Tournament melee- a tournament consisting of up to 64 competitors in a 1 on 1 battle. Special Melee- a variety of different melees with special twists such as tiny mode and super sudden death. Next is the very long and challenging event mode. There are 51 events which get harder as you go along.There are also Stadium matches. They are target test, a mode n which youn break ten targets with a character, Home run contest, a match in which you hit a sandbag as far as you can, and multiman melee, a contest in which you defeat many lightweight characters.Classic mode is a series of matches in order to obtain a characters classic trophy.
Adventure mode is where you fight many obstacles to obtain a characters classic trophy. Allstar mode is where you defeat all 25 characters in order to obtain a characters allstar trophy. Another goal is to obtain the 290 trophies in the game.I hope this review causes you to buy this game.

Pre-Order Sucsess

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I was looking around and saw super smash bros. melee, I immedietly ordered it. I ordered it because I saw there were cool new carecters like Ganondorf, Shreik, and someone called ice climbers. Also in this one there are tournements and lots of people can enter in it (I think you can choose how many). The best things are the new moves! I saw awsome pictures of major moves that it is hard to believe. The new Super Smash Bros. makes the 1st. one look terrible!

The Smash King Returns

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The most addicting game on the Nintendo 64 has arrived on the Gamecube. And the game is just as amazing and just as addicting. The graphics, while not the best the Gamecube can offer, are fluid and have no slow down. That is a must in a fast action-paced game such as this. The music is fun, but easily forgotten in the fury of the matches.

What makes this game a stand out is not only the loads of classic characters, but also the various modes of play. The VS. and Team matches are excellent playing the computer or a friend. The 1P mode, adventure and classic, while not as exciting carries its own merits which makes it interesting. The event matches are the challenge in the game and give a very nuanced playing field. You go from playing as giant Donkey Kong to fighting 128 little Marios in these Event Matches. Another new aspect in the game is the collection of the various trophies. These trophies come from every aspect of Nintendo's storied track record and create a little extra the replay value department. To be rewareded with trophies you fight VS or 1P to win them or use your earned coins in a lottery machine.

Another element to this diverse game are the mini games; the home run contest and target test. Each are fun and challenging. The game starts with 14 classic Nintendo faces including Mario, Link, DK, among others. Later you gain secret characters from beating classic and adventure modes, and by playing a number of VS. games. These characters include Luigi, Mewtwo, DR. Mario, with a few others I won't risk mentioning.
Anyway great game with few flaws, get it for a party favorite or a 1P smash fest its worth it either way.

what is there to say? A lot!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Few words can describe this game. I think the best word is FANTASTIC. This game is unlike any other game I have ever played. Although many people would say Gamecube is not worth getting, this and a few other games makes these statements opposit. Super Smash Melee is amazing! It has 2 single player modes (one classic mode from the original, and the other a new adventure mode). In addition it comes with three mini games. Home Run Durby *using the baseball bat item to hit a large tube across a field*, Brake the targets *from the original*, and a game where you fight really bad drones. But wait! Theres more! There is also, like in the original, a multiplayer game! There are MANY new additions in the multiplayer-like turny mode. Game play isn't the only upgrade from the original. There are now 25 players (14 starters, and 11 hidden). I havn't gotten all of the hiddens, but I have gotten three, and i know of some others. They are as follows: You 1st get Jiggly Puff *i know, argh*, then Luigi *NUBERA ONE!*, and then Dr. Mario *YES! DR. MARIO!*. I have heard rumors that there are other characters like Gandorf from Zelda, and Mewtwo. I'll try to find out the others later. But it dosn't stop here, oh NO! There are many new items too (like the Zelda bunny ears, and Mr. Saturn). Lastly, there is a new feature. This is the Trophy. You can win, and gamble for them. They're VERY cool. I hope this convinceses you to buy the game, because it sure is worth it! Well, this is Mal, signing out!

-Mal *the Gamer

Super Smash Brothers, smashes all competition in its path

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There are few games as fun as this one, the only game I know of that's as much fun as this, is Power Stone 2 for Dreamcast. This game is phonomenal. Gameplay is superb, graphics aren't up to Game Cube's limits, but still the graphics are smooth and very good, the variety is immense. There are more then double the characters there were in the original including: (skip over the next few sentences if you don't wish to know the indentity of the hidden characters)Players you can be from the start: Mario:Plumberwho first appeared(FA) from the DK Arcade game, Bowser Mario's arch-nemiesis FA in mario brothers, Captian Falcon from F-Zero on SNES, DK FA in game with Mario, Fox FA in Star Fox, Ice Climbers FA in a NES game called Ice Climbers, Kirby FA in Kirby's Dream Land, Link FA in Legend of Zelda, Ness the hero of the SNES game EarthBound, Pikachu... I'm sure you know this Pokemon, Peach a princess from mushroom kindgom(hmm everyone who lives in Mush Kingdom is a mushroom person except Peach hmm... Adoption!) Zelda FA in the Legend of Zelda... well it should be call the legend of Link, i mean what does Zelda do besides sit in her castle, Samus Aran FA in Metroid, Sheik: Zelda transforms into her, Yoshi FA in a mario bros game. Hidden Characters: Falco Lambardi Fox McCloud's son I think, Dr.Mario a doctor version of mario FA in a old puzzler NES game called Dr. Mario, Gannondorf from Zelda: Oricina of Time, JigglyPuff a pokemon, Mewtwo supposedly a very strong pokemon, Mr. Game & Watch FA in the game&watch series of portable games made before Game Boy was, Pichu a baby Pikachu from gold & silver versions of pokemon, Prince Marth from a game called Fire Emblem that never came to the USA only in Japan, Roy FA in Fire Emblem, Young Link a young version of link. WOW so those are all the characters and where they came from. The game also includes Event Mode: you are put in to different situtations and you deal with the problem, 64-Player Tournament mode, an adventure mode..it's kinda a themed battle with new bad guys from older games, I think there are 7 adventure levels. There are many special modes of play and over 300 trophies to collect by profroming certain unknown tasks.

OverView out of 10.
GamePlay:10
Graphics:9
FunFactor:10++++
Controls:9
Sound:9.5
Replay Value:10+++++
Variety:10+

The best game ever and for ever more on GameCube except if they make Super Smash Brothers 3!
MUST BUY!!!!!

Hands down the best multiplayer game for the system.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: December 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you have somehow fallen asleep in the past few years in the video game department, let me fill you in. Super Smash Bros. was made to settle that age old argument of "I think Link can beat the crud out of Mario" "Nuhuh" "Yahhuh" This sequel to the original puts Nintendos trademark characters on the battle arena ready to duke it out. Special weapons, powerups and the occasional arena based obstruction will either help or hinder your quest at Smashdom. Special tournament mode will help you work out matches to have a tournament with your friends. It's pick up and play multiplayer appeal makes it excellent for parties. In Melee, graphics have been greatly improved and many more secrets and extra characters have been added. My advice: An absolute necesssity for the gamecube

The Best Gamecube Game of the Year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Anybody who's played the original Super Smash Bros. should know how fun it is to smash your friends as popular Nintendo characters. Not only are the controls so simple even a 5 year old could play, but it's also fast, furious, and most of all, fun.

A little bit after two years after its release, Nintendo announced a sequel to the best-selling fighting game. Shown at E3, it passed Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 as the most anticipated Gamecube game. Over the next 6 months, Nintendo tortured their fans by revealing saliva-inducing options such as 292 trophies, 25 characters, 28 stages, an much, much more. Finally, the wait is over, and fans are treated to the greatest fighting game of the year.

The graphics are magificent. People claim the backgrounds are terrible, but they look fine to me. The character design is so detailed you can see the furs on Fox and the curves of the cloth for Mario. And most importantly of all, it goes at a blistering 60 frames per second. That's an amazing feat considering most of the things documented in this site goes at just 24 fps.

If anybody's a fan of Nintendo music, then this is the game for you. It remixes many popular tunes from Zelda's Overworld Theme to Pokemon's Battle Theme. The sound effects are wonderful, and best of all, there is none of the sound editing that plagued the first version.

Super Smash Bros. Melee is not a rehash of the N64 version, as it has been often called. It has brand new moves. Now, if you grab somebody, you have a choice of attacking the victim, or throwing them up, down, forward, or back. There are 4 Special Attacks instead of the usual 3, and you can dodge projectile attacks and mid-air attacks.

In the original Super Smash Bros., the one-player mode was going through a fixed set of 13 stages. In Melee, there is Classical Mode, which is a lot like the original, only the stages are mixed. There Adventure Mode, where the player goes through scrolling world with hazards before fighting your enemy. There is Stadium Mode, where you can play your character's target practice level, beat up a beanbag before seeing how far you can hit it with a bat, and fight against up to 100 computer characters. There is an event mode with 51 events where you fight in special pre-set circumstances. And then there are the 292 trophies which include people like Misty from Pokemon or the go-kart from the Mario Kart games.

But the truly amazing part of this game is the multiplayer mode, which is what makes Super Smash Bros. one of the classics for the N64. You can play the usual stock (lives) or time mode, but you can also play coin mode, where you knock coins out of your opponents and collect there. Then there are the special melee modes, with special battles like Giant Melee (where everybody is big), or Special Sudden Death Melee, where everybody starts off with 300% damage. This game WILL last you over 500 hours if you are a fan of the original.

This game is a perfect example of why Nintendo is so successful today. Like what has been mentioned earlier in this review, this game is fast, furious, and most of all, fun. If you are a fan of fighting games or Nintendo, then this game is a must.

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