Review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Part 1

After months of waiting and multiple delays it finally arrived, the game that all Wii owners had been waiting on the edge of their seats for, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. As the third installment in the Super Smash Brothers franchise you could be sure to expect even more all out battle between everyones favorite Nintendo characters and this time were even got two third party characters to add a little more color to the mix. For this first part of the review I will be focusing on the single player action in the game.

Why not start off with the mode that should be most familiar to most of us, Classic Mode. This is very much the same as in melee and most other fighting games for that matter. Through this mode you will be fighting through twelve rounds of brawls with a variety of different characters making appearances and trying to get in your way. At the end of each time through classic you will be faced by a familiar foe, Master Hand. For those familiar with previous Super Smash Brothers games then this wouldn't have been the first time that you've had a run in with this opponent. Like all other single player modes in the game there are multiple difficulty levels ranging from easy to insane which is the hardest difficulty in the game. You will eventually be required to fight through Classic Mode with all the available fighters from characters available from the start of the game as well as the many unlockable characters.

Speaking of characters lets go into a little more detail on the area before moving on. At the start of the game you will have fifteen characters at your disposal. That may not seem like many however there are also twenty other unlockable fighters that won't be available to you at the start of the game. There are always multiple ways to unlock characters however they are all available through adventure mode which is yet another single player mode to keep you playing.

Adventure mode, or The Subspace Emissary which is it's full title, is more or less the storyline in the game. It will allow you to see connections between all the characters in the game and let you see how the story of the evil group known as the Subspace Emissary who try and take over the entire world. Of course the hero characters in the game such as Mario, Link, and Kirby will be trying to stop this from happening while villain characters such as Bowser, Ganondorf, and Wario will be trying to edge them along a little more. For the most part in adventure mode you'll be playing through a series of side scrolling levels fighting off the enemies who get in your way. Every so often you will also be required to take part in a boss fight which could end up being another character playable in the game or a character completely unique to adventure mode. Keep in mind that all characters unlockable in the game are unlockable through adventure mode which is also the easiest way of unlocking many of them.

The last of the single player modes that I'll be talking about for now is the event mode. In event mode you will have a series of objectives to complete within a single fight between usually already set fighters. These objectives could be anywhere from simply finishing off an opponent to having to finish an opponent off at just the perfect time in order to complete the event. By the end of event mode you'll have unlocked forty different events however you may need to complete one or more other modes before they all become available to you. Once again all of these events have multiple difficulty levels however this time there are only three, easy, normal, and hard.

There are a few other single player modes like training mode, which really speaks for itself, as well as a few more minor modes which I will talk about in one of the later parts of the review. There are also a few unlockable modes which I won't go into detail on as to not spoil them for those of you who don't yet own the game or are yet to unlock them. However in the overall stand point for just the single player game play alone there is plenty to do for those who don't have anyone else to play or no online connection and even for those looking for a challenging game with plenty to do on the side.