Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
North American box art
Developer(s)	Game Arts Sora Ltd.
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Masahiro Sakurai
Producer(s)	Kensuke Tanabe Keisuke Terasaki Akiya Sakamoto
Artist(s)	Chiharu Sakiyama Takashi Ito Yousuke Hamada
Writer(s)	Kazushige Nojima Masahiro Sakurai
Composer(s)	Takahiro Nishi Shogo Sakai Masaaki Iwasaki Yutaka Iraha Keigo Ozaki Kentaro Ishizaka
Series	Super Smash Bros.
Engine	Havok
Platform(s)	Wii
Release	JP: January 31, 2008 NA: March 9, 2008 AU: June 26, 2008 EU: June 27, 2008
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora Ltd. and Game Arts, and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.Brawl was announced at a pre-E3 2005 press conference by Nintendo president and Chief Executive Officer Satoru Iwata.Masahiro Sakurai, director of the previous two games in the series, assumed the role of director for the third installment at the request of Iwata. Game development began in October 2005 with a creative team that included members from several Nintendo and third-party development teams. After delays due to development problems, the game was finally released on January 31, 2008, in Japan; March 9, 2008, in North America; June 26, 2008, in Australia; and June 27, 2008, in Europe. Twenty-seven months after its original Japanese release, the game was released in Korea, on April 29, 2010.

The number of playable characters in Brawl has grown from that in Super Smash Bros. Melee, although a few character from Melee were cut in Brawl. Brawl is the first game in the series to have playable third-party characters. Like that of its predecessors, the object of Brawl is to knock an opponent off the screen. It is a departure from traditional fighting games, notably in its simplified move commands and emphasis on ring outs over knockouts. It includes a more extensive single-player mode than its predecessors, known as the Subspace Emissary (SSE). This mode is a plot-driven, side-scrolling beat 'em up featuring computer-generated cut scenes and a selection of playable characters. Brawl also supports multiplayer battles with up to four combatants, and is the first game of its franchise to feature online battles via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The game is unique, in that it may be played with four different controllers, including the Wii Remote, Wii Remote with Nunchuk, GameCube controller, and Classic Controller, simultaneously.