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The perfect balance of cool, cute and commendable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE BEST FIGHTING GAME. I was hooked on it for days! Everyone is here:

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

Don't forget... UNLOCKABLE CHARACTERS:
Dr.Mario
Jigglypuff
Ganondorf
Luigi
Prince Marth
Master Roy
Pichu
Mewtwo
Young Link
Falco LomBardi
Mr.Game-And Watch

Time to fight for thirty dollars!

This game rocks!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is 1 of the best games i've ever played. totally addicted and fun. I would totally recommend anyone to buy it,I mean for only 30 buck it's a good deal.

6 years later...still going strong

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I originally bought a GameCube when Super Mario Sunshine came out, in early 2002. With it, I bought SMS, Metroid Prime, Star Wars: Rogue Leader, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. To this day, I have spent more hours playing SSBM than every other fighting game combined, and it's probably about even with the time I spend on RPGs.

I play this game EVERY DAY. Let me repeat that, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

This is a great example of "simple to learn, impossible to master". When you first start out, it seems easy enough. Press A (or B) and a direction to attack, X or Y to jump, L or R to defend. Simple right? But with time comes a mastery of advanced techniques such as wavedashing, L-Cancelling, tether recovery, super grabs, spikes, pillars, and the list just goes on and on.

The character roster is very large at 25(and mostly balanced, but more on that later), there are a wide variety of stages to play on, some simple platforms, some moving racecars on a track that goes speeding by.

Multiplayer is definitely the focus here, but a robust number of options will appeal to the single player crowd as well. There's Classic, Adventure, and All-Star modes (the meat of single player, which you can play through with all 25 characters); 51 different Event Matches (pitting you in all sorts of situations where you play as a wide variety of different characters); the Stadium (featuring a Target Test for each character, the Home Run Contest, and the Multi-Man Melees, pitting you against a horde of weak computer opponents for as long as you can last); and Versus mode, where you can fight against up to three opponents (computer or human).

This brings us to the real meat of the game: Versus mode. While many other fighters go by the wayside after time passes, SSBM has stayed in my gamecube for the last 6 years, largely because of its astoundingly deeo Versus mode. You have a number of options for the type of match (Time, Stock, Bonus to name a few), there are Items to add a bit of chaos to the match (which can be turned off for the fighting game purist), the 25 different characters play VERY differently (even the clones, but I'll get to that later), and all in all, it's one of the best multiplayer games i have ever played. Period.

Now, there are some things which detract from the game. For example, while there is a large number of stages to play on, some of them add little or nothing to the game. For instance, Yoshi's Island (N64) has such terrible camera issues that you can't see your characters sometimes, depending on the positioning of the players on the screen. Final Destination (a flat platform with no frills) is great for fighting game purists, but the party game crowd may find it very boring.

One other issue that many people have with SSBM is the character balance. While every character stands a fighting chance, and player skill definitely affects the outcome of a match more than the character choice, certain characters fall prey to other characters very easily. Fast characters tend to be better, able to swat the slower characters around to the point where you can't even move of your own volition sometimes. Peach is just overpowered, no way around it.

The third (and last) issue that I have with this game (and the last issue I have heard of anyone else having) is that of the clone characters. While SSBM has a wide variety of unique characters (Samus, Zelda, Mario, Peach, Bowser), there are a number of characters who share movesets with other characters, effectively making them clones. The pairings are as follows: Link-Young Link; Mario-Dr. Mario; Cpt. Falcon-Gannondorf, Fox-Falco; Marth-Roy; and Pikachu-Pichu.
One would think that with Nintendo (and HAL)'s penchant for uniqueness in their games that they would have been a bit more original with some of their characters.

All of that aside, SSBM is still an amazing game, that I have had many, MANY (well over 10000; the counter is capped) hours of fun with. I highly recommend it to anyone who owns a GameCube, likes fighting games, likes party games, has friends, or enjoys a good time.

My son is enyoing it very much...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son is enyoing it very much... Thanks for bring me the oportunity to find it.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great fighting game it takes me back to the days of the N64 but I think I liked it a little better on the N64 this is however better graphics also Super smash bros brawl is coming out soon so if you have a wii just wait for that because I heard it will be a huge game. The only thing I am not looking forward too is buying more wii remotes and nunchucks.

Must get for the Gamecube

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best multi player game out for the GC console. Kids 10+ will absolutely adore this game and there is no blood, only comedic fighting. With all the special characters unlocked there are over 20 combatants to choose from the possibilities are pretty much endless with combo attacks. Each battle is a unique experience and the various one player arcade modes will keep players entertained for hours at a time even without a group of friends over.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We loaned this game to a friend and he conviently lost it and we had to buy it again. It is worth it!!!

One of greatest Gamecube games out there.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite fun. Took a bit to get used to the Gamecube after playing Xbox so long, but this is one of my most favorite games on Gamecube. Still, it's a good game that I'd recommend buying; no doubt about it. Worth every penny.

The most fun video game I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The title explains it. If you have not played this game before, I suggest you buy it right here, right now.

Super Smash brothers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game arrived in a timely manner and even though it didn't have the instructions my son knew how to play. It was in excellent condition.

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