Super Smash Bros. Melee was added to iOctavio.com on 2008-03-11 and was categorized under the 3d Fighting genre to assist with web searches for the correct item. Super Smash Bros. Melee is a fighting game released for the Nintendo Wii in the United States where players engage in competitive battles using a roster of beloved Nintendo characters. The game features a diverse cast of fighters drawn from various Nintendo franchises and third-party titles, making it one of the most crossover-heavy fighting games available on the platform.
Among the highlights of Super Smash Bros. Melee is the inclusion of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series, who makes a special guest appearance as a playable character in the title for the Wii game system. This was a notable surprise for fans at the time of the game’s release, as it brought a prominent character from a non-Nintendo franchise into the Nintendo fighting game lineup. The game also introduces a number of new playable characters that expand the roster beyond the original Super Smash Bros. title. These new characters include Meta Knight from the Kirby games, Pit from the Kid Icarus series, Zero Suit Samus who is essentially Samus Aran without her iconic Power Suit armor from Metroid Zero Mission, Wario from the Wario Land and Mario spinoff series, and Sonic the Hedgehog who represents Sega’s beloved blue blur making his way into a Nintendo crossover title.
Another interesting aspect of Super Smash Bros. Melee is the inclusion of the Nintendogs franchise, though the dogs appear only as an item that serves to obscure the screen during matches rather than as a playable fighter. Each character in the game also seems to have access to some gigantic new special attacks that take up the entire screen, adding a sense of spectacle and chaos to every battle. The game also features an online mode that allows players to compete against one another over the internet, which was a significant addition to the series at the time of its release. Additionally, Super Smash Bros. Melee is notable for being the only major Nintendo title to use the classic controller, commonly referred to as the shell controller, by default rather than relying on the Wii remote, which was a departure from Nintendo’s typical motion-control-focused design philosophy for Wii titles.