Super Smash Bros. - Legacy

Legacy

Super Smash Bros. is the first installment of the Super Smash Bros. series. Its sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee was released two years later. Nintendo presented the game at the E3 event of 2001 as a playable demonstration. The next major exposition of the game came in August 2001 at Spaceworld, when Nintendo displayed a playable demo that updated from the previous demo displayed at E3. Nintendo offered a playable tournament of the games for fans in which a GameCube and Super Smash Bros. Melee were prizes for the winner. At the pre-E3 conference of 2005, Nintendo announced Melee's sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata requested Masahiro Sakurai to be the director of the game after the conference. The game retains some of the gameplay features of its predecessors while having major gameplay additions, such as a more substantial single-player mode and online play via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Unlike Melee, the game has four methods of control, including the use of the Wii Remote, Nunchuk, GameCube controller, and the Classic Controller. Like Melee, the game makes references to games and franchises, including those that debuted after the release of Melee; for example, Link's design is taken from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and a Nintendogs puppy is present as an Assist Trophy (a new item that summons computer characters from different games to briefly participate in the fight). Select stages from Melee are included in the sequel. Nintendo has also announced at their E3 2011 conference that they will be releasing a new Super Smash Bros. game on both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS, making it the first cross-platform and portable release in the series. Cross-compatibility between the Wii U and 3DS versions was also confirmed, but not explained how. Development has begun. . Sakurai stated that the announcement was made public in order to attract developers needed for the game.