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Why is Super Smash Bros. so Great?

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the fourth installment in a long series of fighting games by Nintendo, and it just keeps getting better.  Super Smash Bros. won the GiN Game of the Year contest for the Wii U this year, and was in the running for the overall GOTY as well, after earning a nearly perfect review score.

But what sets Super Smash Bros. apart from everything else out there? Why has the game been so successful over all these many years and platforms? The characters? The fighting engine? Something else? We talk with Super Smash Bros. expert Billy White this week in the lounge to try and find out.

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John Breeden II
As a journalist John has covered everything from rural town meetings to the U.S. Congress and even done time as a crime reporter and photographer.|His first venture into writing about the game industry came in the form of a computer column called "On the Chip Side," which grew to have over 1 million circulation and was published in newspapers in several states. From there he did several "ask the computer guy" columns in magazines such as Up Front! in New Mexico and Who Cares? in Washington D.C. When the Internet started to become popular, he began writing guided Web tours for the newly launched Washington Post online section as well as reviews for the weekend section of the paper, something he still does from time to time. His experience in trade publications came as a writer and reviewer for Government Computer News. As the editor of GiN, he demands strict editorial standards from all the writers and reviewers. Breeden feels the industry needs a weekly, reliable trade publication covering the games industry and works tirelessly to accomplish that goal.