Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo GameCube had become one of the most hot selling games of its time selling nearly 7 million units worldwide ever since it was introduced. Studies suggest that Brawl could well become the number one smash hit game of the year. Brawl represents the company’s gradual change for better performance over the past few years. Even in terms of sales, the game has beaten the likes of The Legend of Zelda and even Super Mario.
Smash Bros. is very much similar to Super Mario as it shows Nintendo transforming its old characters in new avatars while keeping the simplicity and the depth of the game alive. Also most of the sequels of the most popular games have not been up to the hype that surrounded them. The sequels turned out to be failure. On the other hand Smash Bros. has turned out to be a great hit and has progressed in a positive direction.
The fighting sequels have been made better than the original game and the visuals have also been polished well. In terms of longevity the game became one of the largest and most demanded games of its era. Today few titles come close when it comes to comparison of unlockable characters, visual effects, gameplay features and additional items.
The game is also applauded for its great soundtrack that has been composed by 30 talented music composers. Some of the popular music composers that devised the soundtrack for the game include Yuzo Koshiro, Mitsuda and Tomoka Sasaki. The opening theme rendition was done by Nobuo Uematsu. In fact Brawl has managed to gather talent from different fields that no other game has been able to do before. Even the developers are industry stalwarts and they have helped influence many people in the gaming industry.
Brawl is definitely one of the biggest products that Nintendo has come up in a ling time. Even the third party characters for the game are kept a closely guarded secret by Nintendo. The game is in fact a third installment of the famous Super Smash Bros. series. The best part is that the game has famous characters from other Nintendo games coming together to battle it out and knock the opponents down.
The game was slated to be released in December 2007 but at the Nintendo conference the president of Nintendo announced that it will take more time to launch the game (January 24, 2008 in Japan) as Nintendo was in the process of fine tuning the game. The company also plans to talk with US subsidiaries to fix up a date for the game’s release in the US. The expected date of the game launching in North America is 10th February, 2008. The game includes all time favorite characters such as Meta Knight, Pit, Kirby, Mario and Link. In fact the characters were picked up after conducting a poll amongst the consumers.
