Super Smash Bros.: Melee

The Good
The sheer playability of the game and using so few buttons. You cannot have more fun with four mates on one screen all at the same time. An original slant on the beat-em-up genre, that leaves conventional fighters such as Tekken and Soul Calibur wanting in terms of fun and epic battles. The variety of the levels and the impact they can have on the battle make it a joy to choose between them. The ingenious array of about 30 pick up's and the awesome Poke-balls all of which are customizable create a multiplayer game unrivalled by anything else. The single player challenges offer a massive challenge which if you can complete really make you a master of the game.

The Bad
Slightly weak single player story mode.

The Bottom Line
Best multiplayer fighter ever made.

The Good
Want a good beat'em'up this is the one for you. Its got good graphics, gameplay and even better you can literally smash your opponents into space. However if battling in melee's isn't your style. Go on classic mode, adventure mode or, after its been unlocked, take on the challenging all star mode. Plus even if that dosen't appeal to you try camera mode, giant mode, sudden death melee and even invisible mode. Then if you get bored with that have a go at wire frame battles, home run mode or just tune up your skill with practice mode. Even better is that all the time your getting new characters, levels and being awarded trophies.

The Bad
There's that much to choose from the chances are you're head is going to explode.

The Bottom Line
The best beat'em'up known to man. Know a better one then tell me I'd have to buy it.

The Good
In my honest opinion, this may be one of the games that I have spent more hours playing than any other two games combined. It has almost limitless replay value, as long as you can one to three friends together. With classic characters like Mario, Luigi, Mr. Game & Watch and Samus, and new characters like Sheik, Ganondorf, and Doc Mario, it is just endless hours of competitive fun. While the single player isn't bad, I've only used it to gain trophies, or when unlocking other characters. Other than that, this game is completely about multi-player.

It's multi-player facets is one of best designed four-player fighting games ever. The stages are well done, with exciting and notable differences, rather than just generic scene changes.

The Bad
The only three flaws in this game are:

1) The repetitiveness of the single-player mode. There is only so often you can go through it, with every character. Even with the three modes, and the 'extra' target and homerun modes, it can only provided limited entertainment if you are by yourself.

2) Lack of some classic characters. It is unfortunate that classic characters like Kid Icarius and other famous notables didn't make it into the game, even though Marth and Roy did. And, rather than having young Link and Link, and Doc Mario, and Mario, I would have liked to see more variety. Having younger/alternate versions seems like a cop-out to me.

3) Some of the stages are really hard to fight on. Some stages are more hazardous than the other players, causing more SDs than anything else. I appreciate the novelty of some of them, like PokeFloats and Big Blue, but I would have rather seen them be less deadly against the players. After all, the players are there to fight each other, not run from a scroll screen in order to just stay alive.

The Bottom Line
One of the best games in the market - Don't walk, run to buy this game.