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
The "texture" of the characters. And by "texture", I mean graphics. Although there is not much of a storyline, what precious little I did learn from visiting from this site, It seems to me, you have to put a lot of strategy into the fighting in the whole mess.

The Bad
What I did not like was the event matches. I mean they're great but some are a little too difficult to operate.This is like an equation, the input is the conditions and terms, the insides are what is added, and the output is the result of what you did and what is the finished product or result.LT's or like terms are the four biggies in all of math and life itself.

The Bottom Line
There are many a character you can choose from but the character is only as good as you are. You could have a character with great potential inside a match but is wasted due to your skills, (not to be offensive). Then again, a character with poor potential in a match isn't wasted because you are particularly good with that character.

The Good
Super Smash Bros.: Melee sports some of the most astounding graphics ever. After 2.5 years, the crisp and vibrant graphics still leave you in awe. The gameplay is simplistic enough that beginners can have great fun with it, while at the same time the level of depth which you can play with can keeps it fresh for veterans. The variety of characters spanning over the entire Nintendo dynasty also makes for very fun and wacky matches (there's nothing like seeing Donkey Kong smashing Samus Aran off of a floating tree-island from Kirby's Dreamland). The replay value of this game is tremendous with its incomparably addictive four-player smash-fest.

The Bad
While there are plenty of well-designed stages that are perfect for 1-on-1 matches which can, theoretically, be played with 4 players, the only flawless level for 4 player mode is the Hyrule level. More larger levels would have been nice. Also, some characters are too similar to each other for my taste. For example, Ganondorf is really just a heavier version of Captain Falcon, with different colored attacks and sounds. This is not terrible, but it just seems like a cheap way to throw in an extra character.

The Bottom Line
SSB:M is an insanely addictive game which pits Nintendo characters in a deathmatch. It's great controls/fight mechanics coupled with its great graphics, sounds, design, and replay value, makes this an almost obligatory title for any Gamecube owner. The pro's of this title outweigh the con's without contest warranting this title with a spot as one of the greatest games ever released.