Super Smash Bros. Melee
A crossover platform fighting game featuring characters from Nintendo franchises including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pokémon, and Fire Emblem. Unlike traditional fighters, the goal is to knock…
Super Smash Bros. Melee is a fighting developed by HAL Laboratory, released 21 November 2001 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Super Smash Bros. Melee is
Super Smash Bros. Melee is a fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2001. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Super Smash Bros. Melee is a 2001 crossover fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series. It features characters from Nintendo video game franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pokémon, and Donkey Kong among others. The stages and gameplay modes reference or take designs from these franchises as well.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Super Smash Bros. Melee is the 246th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Super Mario World in 2001. Its critic score of 100 is 23 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Super Smash Bros. Melee holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Players rate it 94, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 300 hrs.
What it launched against
Super Smash Bros. Melee launched on 21 November 2001, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Smash Bros. Melee yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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