Super Smash Bros. Melee Game Reviews
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Overall Critic Score:3.6469
Super Smash Bros. Melee Critic Reviews
Once again, something has gone horribly wrong in the happy-go-lucky world of Nintendo. Your favorite Nintendo characters return to beat the snot out of each other in "Super Smash Bros. Melee." HAL Laboratories has taken the concept of the first game,...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at G4
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The amount of detail that has been shoved onto all of the game’s character models is fantastic – some of them it would be hard to differentiate from FMV models....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Gaming Age
An exotic cocktail of entertainment for Nintendo fans, who will slurp up every last drop, and if you want to talk about longevity, I’ve had this game on import for about six months and I still haven’t finished it....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Eurogamer
Everyone that owned a Nintendo 64 must have had the hottest multiplayer game ever, Super Smash Bros. It was a multiplayer game that starred most of the Nintendo franchise characters that would battle each other in environments from their respective games....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at GameCube Cafe
Polished, SSB Melee is the year's most impressive GameCube title....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at IGN
Honestly, what hasn’t been said about Super Smash Bros Melee? Not much. This game has been the hot topic game of the GameCube ever since it was announced at E3 2001. The first Super Smash Bros (on the N64) title was a breakaway hit that captured the...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at NintendoWorldReport
Super Smash Bros. Melee (SSBM) is at first glance often mistaken for the Super Smash Bros for N64, but once you peel back that upper layer, there really is a whole new world waiting underneath. Just wait and see...
There is an extremely high amount of...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at PGNx Media
In 1999, Nintendo released a game on their Nintendo 64 system that, some would say, both saved the machine and brought along a new approach to the fighting genre. That game was Super Smash Brothers, a crazy 1-4 player smackfest starring many of...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at HonestGamers
While it surely won't appeal to the Tekken heads, it's a great fit for those who swear by Samus and die by Donkey Kong....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Game Revolution
When Super Smash Bros. first arrived a lot of us were skeptical. Could a fighting game really be any fun with only cute Nintendo characters to duke it out with? Many people originally thought it was doubtful and the cartoony look of the game had even...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Gaming Target
With 25 characters and 29 stages, and only half of that available at start, you have a fighting game you’ll be spending lots of time in. With almost 300 trophies available, you’ll be spending lots of time trying to gather all of them as well....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at GamingTrend
The original Super Smash Bros. was a runaway hit on the Nintendo 64. Great graphics, sound and game play mixed in with a chance to beat Luigi to a pulp with Mario is a premise that could not lose. That¹s why Nintendo was quick to announce at last...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Gaming Illustrated
While the game might not be the greatest single player adventure we’ve seen this year, it very well may be the best multi-player one....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Nintendojo
And so Samus Aran threw her mighty parasol and liberated the Charizard, thus saving the area from Kirby with the anthropomorphic tree from the evil laser-wielding Jigglypuff (with hat)....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at GamePro
The sequel to the surprise hit Super Smash Bros. on the N64, Super Smash Bros. Melee introduces more characters, stages, and moves to the mix. Returning to the fold is the entire cast of the original, along with a host of new combatants, including such...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at AllGame
It's a button-masher in the best sense of the term, and even people not normally interested in fighting games should check it out. While its raison d’être is multiplayer, soloists can’t ask much more....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Adrenaline Vault
From beginning to unreachable end this is one giant tribute to Nintendo and its fans. The four-player battles feature the company's biggest stars from Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and plenty of lesser titles duking it out on recognizable...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Games Radar
The game has an enormous amount of charm, and it mixes old school with new school almost seamlessly....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at My Gamer
There is no doubt about it, the Nintendo 64 suffered from lack of fighting genre games and the ones that were released were less than stellar hits; they had clunky animations, old and tired gameplay, bland characters and unimpressive graphics. In the...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at N-Europe
Super Smash Bros. Melee has been one of the most high profile first-party GameCube launch titles for a long time. Aside from Lucas Arts' Rogue Leader, Melee has been the game that sells the system, at least in the States (as the game isn�t due for...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Game Power AU
There are many ways to play Super Smash Bros. Melee such as Classic, Adventure and Event Matches. Super Smash Bros. Melee is a fighting game in which, when you hit your opponent you deal a certain percentage of damage, the total percentage they have is...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Nintendo Spin
I have played SSBM every day since I got it and I cannot get enough of this game....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Electric Playground
We?ve all dreamed of it coming true but could only imagine it. All gamers have wondered what would occur if characters from different games crossed paths and battled each other. Only one game has made this actually happen and it became an instant...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at VGPub
The return of Nintendo’s biggest stars in the sequel to the N64 hit Super Smash Bros. Are back in the form of Super Smash Bros Melee for your Nintendo GameCube. Mario, Link & Pikachu comes back with even more friends to punch & kick across the screen...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at GamersMark
The only reason SSBM doesn’t achieve gaming nirvana is for two reasons: the variety of arenas isn’t extensive and sometimes the camera pans so far out it reduces your character to the size of an ant. Otherwise, you’re looking at great game....read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Armchair Empire
Once you boot up the disc, you are introduced to the game with a nice title-sequence, displaying the characters whom are up-and-ready from the very beginning. There's Mario, your favourite potato-nosed plumber from the world of greasy moustaches, Donkey...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at PALGN AU
Super Smash Bros. has always been about extremely fast-paced multiplayer fighting, and Melee is no different. It's an experience that's at its best in the company of other humans. It's easily among the most inventive fighting games released in...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at GameSpot
I think it’s safe to say that the number of halfway decent GameCube fighters can be counted on one hand, which is rue of course to any fan of the genre. There’s something to be said, then, that the best is stratospheres above its nearest competitor,...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at N-Insanity
Let it be known that I am not at all a fan of the fighting game genre. I can enjoy beat-em-ups like old Double Dragon games, but the one-on-one fighting style isn't exactly something I drool over.
With that said, my high recommendation of Super Smash...read the complete Super Smash Bros. Melee review at Jaded Gamer
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