22nd February 2003, 8:06 PM
It's the sequel to the smash hit Super Smash Bros that everyone has been waiting for! Featuring a starting cast of 14 fighters with more hidden characters and levels than you can shake a Beam Sword at!
You have several ways you can play <i>Melee</i>. First there is Classic mode, in which you fight a random assortment of characters in sequence to fight your way up to the evil Master Hand. Along the way you'll also be encountered with good old "Break the Targets" and "Race to the Finish" ("Board the Platforms" didn't make it to <i>Melee</i>).
Next is Adventure Mode. This is more uniform than Classic mode because you play the same levels. It may sound monotonous (and many do think it is), yet I find it to be a delightful side game. You go through levels from games, you fight your way through Mushroom Kingdom, get to dodge racers on the F-Zero track, and fly high over Corneria as you fight Fox and Falco on the Great Fox, then meet Bowser at the end.
As a fighting game, <i>Melee</i> has, of course, a multiplayer game, but not JUST a multiplayer game where you go in and fight. There are special types of Melees you can fight. You can fight giant size for a clash-of-the-titans remake, or tiny sized Melees for that ant-battle feel. Fixed Camera Mode just fixes on the battlefield and doesn't move, and Invisible Melee is self-explanatory! Theres even a Tournament mode for as many as 128 fighters (most are computer players, but wait till the GC Modem unviels! <i>MELEE!</i>)
Another addictive aspect of <i>Melee</i> are the trophies you can collect. Our very own Laser Link referred to them as the most addictive thing to collect since Pokemon cards! You get trophies for all sorts of things, such as beating classic mode with a character. You can wager the coins you win from fighting to the trophy lottery, where the more you bet, the more chance for a new trophy. The trophies can be anything. There's a trophy for the Super Scope, for every playable character, a Goomba, and some from games that never left Japan! There is also a side game during classic mode where three trophies fall from the sky, if you can hit any of them into the basket in the middle of the screen, you get to keep them, if not, well, maybe you'll see that trophy again eventually. There are 290 in total, can you collect them all?
There are also premade Events you can play, such as a battle with Pikachu where you may only inflict damage with Pokeballs and the Pokemon inside them.
Wow. Long review. But that just tells you how much there is to do in <i>Super Smash Bros: Melee</i>. I don't think I even covered a quarter of the cool stuff in this game. A must have, I repeat, MUST HAVE GameCube game! I rate it a 9.5!
You have several ways you can play <i>Melee</i>. First there is Classic mode, in which you fight a random assortment of characters in sequence to fight your way up to the evil Master Hand. Along the way you'll also be encountered with good old "Break the Targets" and "Race to the Finish" ("Board the Platforms" didn't make it to <i>Melee</i>).
Next is Adventure Mode. This is more uniform than Classic mode because you play the same levels. It may sound monotonous (and many do think it is), yet I find it to be a delightful side game. You go through levels from games, you fight your way through Mushroom Kingdom, get to dodge racers on the F-Zero track, and fly high over Corneria as you fight Fox and Falco on the Great Fox, then meet Bowser at the end.
As a fighting game, <i>Melee</i> has, of course, a multiplayer game, but not JUST a multiplayer game where you go in and fight. There are special types of Melees you can fight. You can fight giant size for a clash-of-the-titans remake, or tiny sized Melees for that ant-battle feel. Fixed Camera Mode just fixes on the battlefield and doesn't move, and Invisible Melee is self-explanatory! Theres even a Tournament mode for as many as 128 fighters (most are computer players, but wait till the GC Modem unviels! <i>MELEE!</i>)
Another addictive aspect of <i>Melee</i> are the trophies you can collect. Our very own Laser Link referred to them as the most addictive thing to collect since Pokemon cards! You get trophies for all sorts of things, such as beating classic mode with a character. You can wager the coins you win from fighting to the trophy lottery, where the more you bet, the more chance for a new trophy. The trophies can be anything. There's a trophy for the Super Scope, for every playable character, a Goomba, and some from games that never left Japan! There is also a side game during classic mode where three trophies fall from the sky, if you can hit any of them into the basket in the middle of the screen, you get to keep them, if not, well, maybe you'll see that trophy again eventually. There are 290 in total, can you collect them all?
There are also premade Events you can play, such as a battle with Pikachu where you may only inflict damage with Pokeballs and the Pokemon inside them.
Wow. Long review. But that just tells you how much there is to do in <i>Super Smash Bros: Melee</i>. I don't think I even covered a quarter of the cool stuff in this game. A must have, I repeat, MUST HAVE GameCube game! I rate it a 9.5!