Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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Summary: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its "ultimate" name, successfully exceeding player expectations with an expansive roster, dozens of stages, and a fun single-player mode.
Game Information
Publisher: Nintendo
Genres: Fighting, Platformer
Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongside every Super Smash Bros. fighter in the series…EVER! Faster combat, new items, new attacks, new defensive options, and more will keep the battle raging whether you’re at home or on the go.
A new game in the Super Smash Bros. series releases Dec. 7, 2018
New fighters, new stages, AND every fighter ever featured in the series…EVER!
Inkling from the Splatoon series join the roster
Ridley from the Metroid series also joins the fight
Returning fighters include Wolf, Ice Climbers, Pokémon Trainer and more
Elevate the Super Smash Bros. experience to new heights with faster combat, new attacks, new items, and new defensive options
Hold a 4 player free-for-all, or kick it up to 8-player battles
All current Super Smash Bros. series amiibo figures are supported
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gameplay Pt. 2 - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2018
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - E3 2018 - Nintendo Switch
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View All (134 total)Eurogamer
A chaos of details and features come together for one of the Switch's most generous - and exhilarating - games.
IGN
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is Smash Bros. done right, and done bigger than ever before.
Easy Allies
GamesRadar+
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate takes characters we've played for decades and remasters them into a robust, fantastically enjoyable package
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