Check this review out if you really want to know the truth about this game, note that This is not a random 10.0 review,.
Okay, there are hundreds of reviews of this game that just point out the pros of the game, when the truth is, it's not a perfect game, It's really close to being perfect but it has it's flaws.
One of the two major flaws of this game is the character roster, Sakurai said that they'll get rid of the clones, when infact they added a clone, Wolf, I'm not saying anything bad about the character, I'm just pointing out that's he's a clone, and the other thing is, I expected about 50 characters, considering that this might be the last Super Smash bros game.
I'm not stating facts, I just feel like this is the last game, we might get a port of SSB or SSBM on the DS but I don't think they'll be making more sequels to the series, but I might be wrong.
What I just said above is not really a flaw to the game, I'll tell you the real flaw, The online mode, it lags a lot!!, after seeing what the online mode does, I just stopped using it unless the person I'm playing with lives next to my house or atleast in my city.
Now I played a match with someone who lives...about well... extremly far from my country, and it lags like crazy, it's just soo boring.
but, when I play Mario Kart Wii with more than 5 people who lives in countries all around the world it doesn't lag one bit, so why does it lag on Brawl?
I stated the major flaws of the game, but those flaws don't stop this game from being one of the best or the best multiplayer game on the Wii, even though the online is bad, the game has a single player mode wih a story which is great and...atleast they got some 3rd party characters, so all on all this game is SSBM with more characters, better single player modes and with a killer soundtrack.
so I give this game a 8.5. for existing in 2008 and... being a multiplayer game with a bad online mode, just don't start flaming me, I love this game and play it to this day, it's just that I was hyping it a lot before it came out and when it did I thought that it was great with no flaws, but I realize the flaws after 2 month or so of playing the game.