Super smash bros brawl has its flaws, but the overall experience is just too addicting to refuse!
User Rating: 9.5 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl WII
Super smash bros brawl is my favourite Wii game so far. You can use the Wii remote, Wii and Nunchuk combo, classic controller, or GameCube controller. There are tons of stages and characters. The character roster in brawl is one of the greatest ever compiled. In total there are 41 unique stages. You can build your own stages in brawl too. You can store up to 1000 stages, depending on your remaining memory. The graphics in brawl are solid. I've seen a few Wii titles that are better, visually, to the graphics in this game. There are a few texture chunks, although they don't interfere with the actual experience. Obviously they had to cut a few corners to keep the game at a solid 60 frames per second. The FPS never drops, even with four player high intensity brawls. The audio in this game is far superior, in my terms, to any other Nintendo game ever made. I've unlocked all the songs, and let me tell you that every song in this game is wonderful to listen to. There are over 120 songs at the beginning, and you can collect almost all the songs to obtain a whopping 258 songs. There are a few songs that are not obtainable, though. The sound effects are top notch, and there are thousands of them! You can even choose the frequency of certain songs played on certain stages, to your liking. The game play is simple yet effective. You might think this is a button mashing game, but once you start playing it, you will get hooked. The controls are solid, except for the Wii remote on its side. Customization is really the best thing about this game. There are over 20 items, 35 characters, 6 colour options for most of them, and 41 stages plus custom ones. There are a lot of rules you can change, plus there is a mode called special brawl, where you can make your characters large, tiny, metal, flaming, invisible, and more. This game isn't short on modes, either. I counted over 40 modes in brawl, but there are more than that. Online play works fine, and if you have a good connection and/or router, can be lag free. There are a lot of limits in online play with strangers. For playing with friends, you can choose more modes. The only real complaint for playing with friends is that you have to register them with the most annoying thing ever, friend codes! Otherwise, this game is feature packed till it hurts! There are hundreds of trophies and stickers to collect, new rules to unlock, stage builder of course, plus coin launcher, solo, multiplayer modes, movies, trailers, challenges, and a lot more! The multiplayer is the best. There are so many options as I mentioned, plus online play makes it so that you can play multiplayer battles even when no one is there at your house. Solo mode is the only disappointment about brawl. The events mode is actually better this time, and so is the all star, but the classic mode isn't as fun. There are new modes, such as stadium, which has a couple of different minigames like target smash, and boss battles, which is new actually. Well for me all the solo modes were okay to play, except the adventure mode. Now I know most people are going to disagree with me, but as a reviewer and a gamer at the same time, I have to say that I liked the adventure mode the for the most part, or subspace emissary as it's officially called. The only parts I was underwhelmed with and disappointed with were the self scrolling levels, and the enemy designs. They seemed pretty usual for your daily enemies. Well, most of them did! This is the most fun I have had since melee came out. Here I am, about 5 months after the game's release, and I am still playing every mode, and learning new things along the way. I never get bored of this game, and neither will you. This is the Wii's best action game. I love this game, and no matter what people say about the flaws, there is so much value for just $49.99.
Best Wii game. Period.
