With the arrival of Super Smash Bros in stores have also officially opened the doors of online for the incredible brawler game from Nintendo: The title has thus revealed its bid for the multiplayer network, ultimately pretty standard but supported, this time, by a netcode fairly solid.
The opinion expressed in our review, however, does not change: the masterpiece assembled by Sakurai and his team still gives her best in local fights. Smash Mode Tour, with his board in the Mario Party, is exactly what it takes to give a structure a little 'less chaotic evenings with friends, while the "Brawl at Eight" - we have already said - can whet fans long course that they have quite a number of companions, even net of confusion quite evident during the match.
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Staying on the theme of clashes in the network, however, the offer of Super Smash Bros is divided, just as they did in the 3DS version, in a free mode and a classified.
Whether you decide to join the fray "for fun" or "for the glory", fortunately, the matchmaking proves pretty quick, waiting times are not exaggerated, and only rarely matches are marred by a few episodes of lag. The results obviously vary depending on the quality of the connection (of its own but also of that of opponents), however, the total Netcode appears much more solid and stable both with respect to that of the portable version (where play in 4 still remains a problem), and than the previous incarnation of the brand on WiiU. WARNING: Published the Review
NETWORK OR NO? Unfortunately for Super Smash Bros Nintendo decides to rely on the same infrastructure seen in Mario Kart 8: while the competition, net of a thousand server problems, pushing more and more about the game online, it remains quite distressing to see an incomprehensibly cumbersome management of invitations, and an in-game chat that -for some kind of precautionary turns off while playing games and remains active only in the lobby.
From this point of view, Nintendo still needs to improve, and not a little: especially titles like Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, real spearheads of the line-up WiiU, would benefit in a very clear structure of an online a bit 'more dynamic and behind the times.
Fortunately, the title made amends with its incredible formula, technique and accessible as we said in the review, and also in this department online substantially "bipartite": on one side there are in fact the match more playful, which take place in the arenas Classic (and then handled and full of unforeseen) and with the always abundant presence of objects; the other instead clashes more "rigorous", no item and above versions Omega internships. And again it comes back to say that soul "two-faced" Super Smash Bros, who can be challenging party game but also strict "brawler": the match 1vs1 mode "for the glory" know how to be technical to capacity, focusing entirely on the timing of attack and the moveset of the characters selected (to be recorded abundant presence of Little Mac and Meta Knight).
The sub-Online, in any case, complements the offer already rich mode which we discussed in the review, and on which we want to come back after a few weeks of play. While insipid mode included in the "Stadium" proved actually quite ephemeral, we must admit that the Special Requests held the bank and let themselves play nicely for a long time. Usually you end up Master Requests to dedicate to accumulate the nest egg needed to address a request Crazy, structured like a "risk everything" videogame. In both cases, the title presents us with three "tasks" random to choose from, just that selecting the most extreme just a failure to lose everything, seeing go smoke a ticket or a small fortune laboriously accumulated.
Let's go back to say, however, that increasing the intensity, the Classic mode edition WiiU has not convinced us fully, and yet how All Star is a small change to the formula of the standard game, which asks us to face in sequence all the characters of the large roster.
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In the long run, however, the "Events" has managed to conquer us. Ultimately it is this mode that can be considered as an alternative to the Story Mode: This is a series of meetings "thematic", in which there is assigned a fighter and a goal. Beyond the desire to create every time contexts funny or battles that replicate historic rivalries in the world of video games (which would happen if Bowser and Donkey could agree to make shoes to Mario?), There are several variations to the victory conditions , and jump from match schizzatissimi other tactical and thoughtful. To overcome the more complex objectives must sweat a lot, and ultimately -although tight angle in the menu selection- this mode is one of the pillars of overflowing supply of Super Smash Bros.
To close, in short, we must reaffirm the exceptional density of the package, now enriched with a good online component although more focused on local multiplayer. Hats off to Nintendo.
