Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Playable Characters unveiled!
by IGN Staff

May 10, 2006 - Nintendo just pulled a fast one on us. At an after-hours press briefing a mere minute ago, the company pulled another ace out of its sleeve: Smash Bros. Brawl -- the next installment in Nintendo's popular Super Smash Bros. series.

Details are just now rolling in, but we have confirmed the following playable characters:

* Pit (Kid Icarus)
* Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
* Zero Suit Samus (the blue "no-suit" Samus from Metroid: Zero Mission)
* Meta-Knight (Kirby)
* Wario (Wario)

Under the direction of series creator Masahiro Sakurai, Super Smash Bros. Brawl will feature classic, GameCube-style combat -- not Wii-style motion-controlled combat. That means players who prefer to play the game with the traditional control setup can look forward to using the GameCube control-style they're already accustomed to.

"We found that trying to implement too much motion-sensory functionality can get in the way of the game. We're looking at keeping the control simple, as it has been," said Sakurai. "The Wii hardware has sockets for the GameCube controller, too. So I'll just say now that you may not want to throw away your GCN controller yet."

The game also features a range of new nasty toys, such as the ability to unleash a puppy from Nintendogs that will run up to the screen, put its paws up and obscure the view of the action. Mario, Kirby, Pikachu and Link have been confirmed as returning characters. Sakurai confirmed that Wario actually has a fart attack and that Solid Snake can use his trusty cardboard box. In the video trailer, Snake gets out of the box and says "It's showtime!"

"We thought a lot about what to do with Snake and his moves in Super Smash Bros. Brawl," said Sakurai. "As you all know Snake walks around with a gun, but with Super Smash Bros. I didn't want to bring in a lot of real weapons. So that was a real challenge. But conversely, if we could use things like rocket launchers and other explosives, not only would that be fitting for Snake, but it would work for the other characters. But who knows. Maybe Snake will exclusively use explosives throughout the game."

Sakurai said the decision to include Solid Snake when Hideo Kojima himself practically "begged" to include the Metal Gear character in the last Smash Bros. game. When asked about the possibility of Sonic the Hedgehod appearing in the game as well, Shigeru Miyamoto said: "There are probably possibilities for other third parties as well, and it maybe that even know there are corporate discussions going on about including some of these other characters."

Even better, the game will be fully online playable in addition to featuring a robust multiplayer mode. "My plan is to include Wi-Fi connection compatibility and online functionality. One of the primary reasons Super Smash Bros. Brawl was created was that Nintendo, when taking Wii online, wanted to have Smash Bros. to do that," added Sakurai.

The bad news is that Super Smash Bros. Brawl will no longer be a Wii launch title, but will instead be released in 2007.

Source: http://revolution.ign.com/articles/707/707504p1.html

Screenshots: http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748545/imgs_1.html

[Edit by Sihum]

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This post has been edited by sihumchai: Mar 26 2008, 09:02 AM

Omg fariz, thank you for the news!

JUSTIN BAILEY SAMUS, HERE I COME!

And Solid Snake? I'd like to see him riding a Nikita instead of shooting rockets

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/10/super-sm...ng-solid-snake/

Snake will use the cardboard box!!





This post has been edited by fariz: May 11 2006, 11:13 AM

Wah.. Hideo Kojima "begged" ? need or not..

Would you LOOK at the DETAILS! Mario JEANS! Link with.. DETAIL!.. Smoother Pikachu.. And Nintendogs with.. cuteness-overload attack!! And of course.. SAMUSS!

Video here: http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748545/vids_1.html

So prettyful and awesome. o_o Hope Sonic's would be in it as well, hehe.

This game rocks. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

sonic would be nice. ff characters anybody?

Wheeeee!!! Wii will be my first ever console.

hahaha.Zero Suit Samus....why not Naked Samus....just say it directly lah...

The Official Super Smash Bros. Brawl Website:

http://www.smashbros.com/en/main.html

Regarding the music:
Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is making all the music in the game!! The title track, "A Main Theme with Emotion," is available here for streaming and downloading. If you played any Final Fantasy game then you know just how incredibly awesome Uematsu is with music creation!

Well... if you read the articles when confronted by the question of "Will Sonic be in?" Miyamoto said "We are currently working with key partners for other characthers"

If Sonic is in... well.. that's it.. the fight of the millienium, probably more anticipated than SF vs KOF!!! hahahahaha

Pray people pray...

why not since Sega now already got their old games playable on Nintendo WII...

i guess Snake can hide behind the tree during the brawL!!!

This SSBB trailer sure damn funny, i thought i saw a naked lady on the dark for a few seconds then later on turned out to be Samus with Zero Suit.

hey... no ds version for this?

Sadly, no ds version yet... the closest one you can relate is Jump Superstars 2

That snake part was hilarious

there's a 2nd jump?

yeah check out IGN.com