Super Smash Brothers Melee

The next best-selling Smash Brothers game was released on November 21, 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube. Melee sold more than 7 Million Copies worldwide and it’s the best-selling game on the GameCube. Critics and Fans loved the new characters introduced and the added features. In fact, a competitive scene started to form within a year after the games release. Competitive players love the game for its fast pace and hard to master technical moves such as wavedashing. The amount of content in this game compared to its predecessor is mind blowing.

Features

• 25 characters
• 29 stages
• Adventure mode for single player
• Classic mode returning from Smash 64
• All Star mode: Fight against a gauntlet of characters with one live.
• Event mode: Choose a variety of in game scenarios. Some require winning a match while others want you to survive against computer players for one minute.
• Trophies: in game collectibles. Melee has 290.
• Tournament mode: You can create tournaments up to 60 players!
• Special melee mode: Battle against friends under a variety of odd gameplay changes
• Stadium mode for single player: This includes home run contest, multi man melee, and target smash

The amount of content added into Melee is astonishing considering the short time for development. However, there was a long wait for the next Smash Brothers game. The next game had way more content than Melee.