Super Smash Bros. Melee: This game is the Gamecube's killer app!
MaidenLover12
100% score
Okay, this is my favorite game on the Gamecube, period. This game just totally owns. I'll go into sections about the game...... Story: The story is what you'd expect, but it's a little better in Melee(in terms of the actual reasons why they're fighting.) Instead of toys of a anonymous hand, this time they're trophies that are fighting to the death. Much improvement there. Now to the story mode, this is one of the places where it just totally blows away the original. There's soo much more to do in this game one-player wise than the original, you've got your basic but fun story mode; then you have the awesome Adventure Mode, which takes you to many places in Nintendo history. Then you have All-Star Mode, which is a brawl where you have to beat all characters in Melee, with a limited number of health items and lifes. You also have Home Run Contest, which challenges you to see how far you can propel a sandbag, and this is how you unlock a level(spoiler).Next, you have the Target Test for each character, which is very fun as it challenges to master each character. You also have events you can do, which in all there's over 50; these have random objectives, from simple to complex objectives. Finally, you have fights with the fighting wire frames, which have about 5 diffrent modes or ways to fight them. All in all, this game is just as much fun single-player as multi. Multiplayer: This is where the original shined, and this one is no exception. I got this game the week it came out, yet I still play it for multiplayer battles, as they never get old. You get plenty of characters, and plenty of new items, and plenty of new stages to play at. New Items: The new items are overall very good. You have the awesome superscope, which can shoot pea size blasts, or if charged can be a bomb of blasts. The freezie is my favorite new object, it obviously freezes opponents. The flipper is cool, but at times annoying. The Lip's Stick is a cool item, when hit upon a opponent, it sprouts a flower on their head that deals damage for a few seconds. Food is a recovery item, useful but not something that will probably change the tide of battle. Mr.Saturn is my least favorite new item, dosen't do much damage and is just a waste of time picking up as he moves freely. New Characters: This game has all 8 characters from the original, plus 16 new characters, which comes to a total of 24 characters; that's a lot of characters to play as. Bowser is cool, very strong, but slow. Ganondorf plays similiar, albeit a little stronger, but much slower. Marth and Roy are clones, but Roy is much better to play as IMO. Peach is useful, as well as Ice Climbers, Zelda, and Ness, if you know how to play as them. Falco is great as well, he plays similiar to Fox. New Stages: This game gives you around 15 more stages to play at, and a lot more are interactive. Some of the highlights are: Hyrule Temple, Corneria, Pokemon Stadium, Planet Zebes,Mute City,Mushroom Kingdom, Termina Bay, and Flat Zone. Graphics: SSBM is simply stunning graphically. This game has still great graphics, to this day. You can see soo much detail on Mario's pants, and the textures are great. Characters are no longer boxy as well. Sound: This game has some great music. Music for the stages are great, suit the stages very well. Replayability: Well, this game has the most replayability out of ANY GAME, IMO. I still play this game, six years later, and am not tired of it. There's soo much to do in this game,you will not be tired of it for years to come. Unlockables: Hundreds of things to unlock await you in SSBM. There's 12 characters to unlock, around 10-15 stages, over 290 trophies, and more. Overall, this game is the killer app for the Gamecube, and is in my top five favorite games of all time. Final Score:5/5
