Super Smash Bros: Melee

This is bigger than Michael Jackson. Bigger than the Beatles. Bigger than Star Wars. Yes i'm talking about the ultimate sequel to the ultimate game. Super Smash Bros: Melee. The multiplayer madness from N64 is back on your little purple box. Scheduled about 2 weeks after launch it will change the course of history. It includes all of the original characters and more. The unlocked ones are:

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

All of these characters are playable from the start with old favourites like Donkey Kong and Pikachu. There are also some new characters like Peach and Ice climbers. They all have great visual presentation and unique moves. The Ice Climbers actually work as a team with you controlling the one of your choice and the other one being computer controlled jumping around to help you. Besides these characters there are also some locked characters as well. Some of these are clones as they have the same moves with different power and visual effect to other characters but still feel like unique players anyway. These include:

Dr Mario (Mario clone)
Young Link (I think he's a Link clone)
Luigi
Jiggly Puff
Mr Game and Watch
Pichu (I think its a Pikachu clone)
Falco (Fox clone)
Roy
Marth (These 2 are from an RPG only released in japan and their a clone of each other)
Ganandorf (Captain Falcon clone)

As you can see once all unlocked you have a great list of characters at your disposal. Also introduced is the combo moves much like tekken and other fighting games you push certain buttons to release a special move. There are still your basic and special attacks though. The game also comes with a fantastic list of arenas including some unlocked ones as well. Your modes of play for single player are Classic, which you play as you did in the first game going through the stages fighting certain characters and teams. The new addition is the side scrolling adventure mode. This puts you up against minions like goombas and Re-deads until usually at the end you fight an according boss. The versus mode is still there but you can (if you wish) add some variations to it like camera mode and tiny mode. Another new addition is trophy mode where you use coins from the game to unlock trophy's in a lottery with thousands of Nintendo memorabilia available. There's everything from paper boy to prince poo. You can then admire them in a variety of ways individually or all together on a huge table. This is going to be the best game of all time people and all though it isn't coming out on launch i'm saving my money and not buying anything for the first 2 GameCube weeks or so just to make sure I get my hands on this one.

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