The third installment of Nintendo's crazy fighting series is bound to be one of the greatest games of all time.

In 1999 Super Smash Bros was the first game to feature 4-player battles during which you could use an amazing array of items such as Pokéballs, stars, hammers and Bob-ombs. Besides the game also had famous Nintendo characters and stages based on different franchises. Although it was a huge success it had some flaws like the serious frame-rate problems when 4 human players where battling and the not so beautiful characters.

Three years later Nintendo launched Melee, because of the Gamecube powerful hardware the game was smooth and battles happened at high speeds. With many unlockable fighters, 300 trophies and nearly 30 stages, Melee surpassed its predecessor on every aspect.

As soon as Nintendo announced its new system, gamers started to wonder how would all great franchises look on the Nintendo Wii. Our pleas were soon answered when footage of the game was shown on last year's E3.

Since then, all over the forums you can read people discussing which characters will join Mario, Link, Fox, Zero Suit Samus, Pit, Kirby, Pikachu, Wario, Snake and Meta Knight on Brawl. Nintendo has already stated that there are three spots for third-party characters, so I guess everyone is expecting to see Sonic taking one of these spots.

Honestly I don't expect this game to come out before December, I hope I'm wrong though. One of the game producers had already said that he would improve the single-player modes and make more slow-paced battles, so I guess it will take them a while to make so many changes to the gameplay. The game will probably use Gamecube's controllers, and I like it because I don't think we would be comfortable playing Smash Bros on the Wiimote. I'm sure more information is yet to be released.

My only concern is that this game is being too much hyped by many people, I'm one of them, and I'm afraid such an expectation may spoil it, just like what happened to Twilight Princess.