Super Smash Brothers Melee is a fighting game, with many names you will have got to love over the years – favourite characters from all of Nintendo’s past games like Super Mario Bros, Starfox, F-zero, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda and more. With up to 26 playable characters including Mario, Fox McCloud, Samus Aran, DK, Link and Zelda.
The game has several modes, you can play with a time limit, live death matches or coin battles for possession of the most coins, all these games are multiplayer modes. In the single player mode you have; adventure mode, classic mode and event mode. In event mode you must complete missions based on each events description, adventure mode you must complete platform based levels and classic mode is a fight based game where each stage is a different fight.
After completing so much of these modes an All-star mode will unlock, this is where you pick a character and with them you must defeat every character of the game one after another. They also include a stadium mode where you can have survival battles, target practice or a home-run contest. At the end of classic and adventure mode you will have to face bosses which are quite easily defeated with a little practice if you know what you’re doing.
When you start the game you have most of the characters and maps at your disposal, however performing different tasks along the way will unlock maps and characters. There is also a range of collectable trophies; some are rare and others more common. At the end of certain game modes you are awarded coins which can be used in a trophy slot machine to test your luck at getting those rare trophies, the percentage of a new trophy will decrease the more trophies you earn, however by putting more coins in the slot machine you will increase the chance of getting new trophies again only for that single go though.
The game has many hidden ways of unlocking characters, for example to unlock Falco you must play x amount of battles or defeat the 100 man melee, there are also hidden extras like the boss Giga Bowser to obtain him you must defeat the adventure mode within a certain time limit. This game will keep you and the family entertained for hours on end, it is pure fun for everyone.