Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a fighter released in 2008 for the Wii. It is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. franchise. The game sees well-known characters from a variety of popular Nintendo franchise such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, pitted against each other in battles in a variety settings from a large number of Nintendo franchise universes.
For the first time in a Super Smash Bros. game two third-party characters, Sonic and Snake, are playable. The roster features a total of 39 playable characters and 41 stages which the characters can fight on.
SSBB also features a new playable story mode known as 'The Subspace Emissary'. The player must play as a variety of characters to fight the Ancient Minister and his minions, 'The Primids' who are imprisoning characters and harnessing their power. The mode plays similar to a platformer and the player must traverse a number of levels collecting trophies to unlock new characters which he can then use later on in the mode.
SSBB has been given wide acclaim, both by critics and gamers alike. It has received consistently good reviews and has sold extremely well.
