Super Smash Brothers

This week I am going to head back to my childhood. The game I am going to talk about this week is Super Smash Brothers. The first iteration of this game was created in 1999 by Nintendo. In my experience people still play this game. It is extremely fun and competitive. The game itself allows the user to pick a character which they want to play. Some of the options include Fox, Link, Pikachu, and Yoshi, just to name a few. These characters are pitted against each on a map of the players choosing. Players damage each other with items or “smashes”. The more damage you take the farther you will fly when hit. You lose lives or points when you are hit off the map. I played this game as a child and I still play it today until recently…. Nintendo recently came out with their Wii U console. Typically I would not care about the Wii products because they are motion controlled and I do not like that. This console however has actual controllers and you can use the past controllers as well. This year I was most interested in the new Super Smash Brothers. One of my friends got the console and the game and it is just like old times except much more fun. There are new items, new characters, and new maps. Not to exclude updated graphics. The idea of the game is the same, but the feel is different. Abilities can be charged to do more damage and learning all of the characters and items can take some time. I almost always play with friends, but there is an online feature that allows people to battle over the internet either one versus one, or team battles. I found that playing over the internet had a lot of lag and often resulted in the game being dropped altogether. Nintendo is definitely not better than Sony or Microsoft when it comes to online gaming. Their games are often created for children, but order crowds may find some of the games fun. I would recommend this game to anyone especially college students because it will get a lot of use among your friends and it never gets old. The Wii U will set you back anywhere between $230- $300 depending on how much storage you get. The game itself will typically cost around $60, but sometimes you can find a sale. So if you are like me and enjoyed this game as a kid, go out and pick yourself up a Wii U and bring back some memories.