Ok, this is my first forray into the smash bros. universe, so forgive me if it seems like i am being a little critical, but i really dont beleive that brawl lives upto the hype that surrounded its release.

For starters the single player mode was obviously only put in as a bit of an afterthought. The subspace embassy - or story mode, if you prefer - is so poor that if the review was based on this alone the game would fail to muster even a solitary star. Classic mode is better, but boomerangs between boredom and frustration, being either far too easy or much too hard. Obviously the game was designed with multiplayer in mind. Fortunately the multiplayer experience is a much meatier affair. when theres you and 3 mates sharing a sofa things can get very compettetive extremley fast.
During one particularly chaotic session i nearly broke my brothers nose with the remote and my friend stormed out after loosing 16 consecutive bouts. However, it soon becomes apparent just how… more »

Ok, this is my first forray into the smash bros. universe, so forgive me if it seems like i am being a little critical, but i really dont beleive that brawl lives upto the hype that surrounded its release.

For starters the single player mode was obviously only put in as a bit of an afterthought. The subspace embassy - or story mode, if you prefer - is so poor that if the review was based on this alone the game would fail to muster even a solitary star. Classic mode is better, but boomerangs between boredom and frustration, being either far too easy or much too hard. Obviously the game was designed with multiplayer in mind. Fortunately the multiplayer experience is a much meatier affair. when theres you and 3 mates sharing a sofa things can get very compettetive extremley fast.
During one particularly chaotic session i nearly broke my brothers nose with the remote and my friend stormed out after loosing 16 consecutive bouts. However, it soon becomes apparent just how limited the game is. After all this is effectively a 2-D brawler with some snazzy effects. It certainly is fun to start with, but it soon becomes tiresome when you have just pulled off the same move 20 times in a row becuase theres no other moves to pull.

Then theres nintendo;s single biggest clanger with brawl - The online multiplayer mode. Everything works fine, you can connect easily enough and there always seems to be a steady stream of opponents to fight, but, nintendo has forgotten why people would want to play against other people - the banter, the jibes and the put downs. By failing to give you anyway of communicating with the person you are fighting against, nintendo have ensured that the online experience feels no different to battling against CPU Characters. thus rendering the experience slightly pointless.

To be fair this is still amongst the favourites for a post pub bout or two. But in these days of fully 3-D fighters like soul caliber, this kind of thing fails to cut the mustard as far as i am concerned. If only the online experience had been better...

This game is absolutely amazing and definitely the best game on the wii at the moment. Unlike the gamecube version there is a story/adventure mode which has improved it hugely. The multiplayer has kept its brilliance, and generally they have kept the right features in the game.

There are plenty of characters on the game, many of which are new. Nintendo have made some of the original characters worse so that there arent any who are a lot better than the rest which is good. Classic and all-star modes are the same and items remain good except there is a problem. The new final smashes are a brilliant idea but they occur much too often - one of the few downfalls of this game. It has kept its pick-up-and-playability and thankfully the c-stick of the gamecube controller has gone, for this made the old version too easy.

Another problem are that the target smash mode has got much worse. The new stage-builder mode seems poor at firs but you can make some great stages once you are… more »

This game is absolutely amazing and definitely the best game on the wii at the moment. Unlike the gamecube version there is a story/adventure mode which has improved it hugely. The multiplayer has kept its brilliance, and generally they have kept the right features in the game.

There are plenty of characters on the game, many of which are new. Nintendo have made some of the original characters worse so that there arent any who are a lot better than the rest which is good. Classic and all-star modes are the same and items remain good except there is a problem. The new final smashes are a brilliant idea but they occur much too often - one of the few downfalls of this game. It has kept its pick-up-and-playability and thankfully the c-stick of the gamecube controller has gone, for this made the old version too easy.

Another problem are that the target smash mode has got much worse. The new stage-builder mode seems poor at firs but you can make some great stages once you are used to it.

This game truly is a classic, and the multiplayer is just genius.

Buy this game, it is the best on wii!!!