Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Difference between revisions

'''''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''''' (大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズＸ, Great Fray Smash Brothers X), often shortened to "''SSBB''" or "''Brawl''", is the third installment in the [[Super Smash Bros.]] series published by [[Nintendo]]. The game was designed by Masahiro Sakurai, who also created the two preceding Super Smash Bros. games, and was developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts, and staff from other developers, beginning in October 2005.

The game was released on January 31st, 2008 in Japan, March 9th, 2008 in North America, June 26th, 2008 in Australia, and June 27th, 2008 in Europe. Brawl supports four types of controllers - the Wii Remote alone held horizontally, the Wii Remote and Nunchuk together, the Classic Controller/Classic Controller Pro, and the [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] controller. Up to four players can engage in local multiplayer battles at any given time with any combination of controllers, while ''Brawl'' also supported online play through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the first game in the series to do so.

While ''Brawl'' continues to include the tournament-like "Classic" and "All-Star" single-player modes, Melee’s Adventure Mode has been replaced with The Subspace Emissary; a much more extensive side-scrolling beat-'em-up mode featuring both the playable characters and many enemies specifically created for the game. The resulting mode includes an involved plot and numerous pre-rendered cutscenes, as well as some platform game elements during gameplay.

Following the trend set by earlier games in the series, ''Brawl'' showcases a wide selection of characters from Nintendo and its second parties, setting them to fight in several different types of matches. Unlike its predecessors, however, ''Brawl'' also includes two third-party characters in Solid Snake and [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. In total, the number of playable characters was increased from Melee's 25 to 35 (or 39, if counting Sheik and Zero Suit Samus separately from [[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda]] and Samus, and counting Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard individually rather than grouped with the Pokémon Trainer).

Most of the game's musical score is made up of newly-arranged versions of pieces that originated in earlier video games starring the characters featured in ''Brawl'', with the remainder taken directly from the original games. The new arrangements were composed in a collaboration between 38 renowned video game composers and has been critically acclaimed for its representation of different generations in gaming history.

As of May 20, 2014, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection has been shut down therefore making it impossible for anyone to play ''Brawl'' online without hacking.

''Brawl'' received universal acclaim, with praise centered on its entertainment value despite issues relating to its content loading times, and its musical score was lauded for its representation of different generations in gaming history. The game has sold 13.32 million units as of March 31, 2020, making it the eighth best-selling [[Wii]] game of all time.