Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is a fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only. It runs on Havok.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, party and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 8 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the 301st of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Boom: Link 'n Smash in 2015. Its critic score of 95 is 24 points above the series average of 71. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 26 points above the year average. Players rate it 89, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U launched on 21 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.

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