
The victor of a match has no standard determining factor. The stages, characters, and items are drawn from Nintendo's video game franchises such as Mario, Pokémon, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid, along with Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series and Konami's Metal Gear series. Players may use items for offensive purposes, such as guns and swords, or for healing purposes, such as food and heart containers. Being knocked off the screen-or falling off oneself-causes a knock-out. games do not include standard health gauges, but a percentage counter there is no point at which a character is automatically knocked out from the counter getting too high, but they will be knocked farther with increasing damage.

Unlike most traditional fighting games, the Super Smash Bros. Attacks can be avoided by jumping or using a short-lived shield move. They can attack one another with their own repertoires of special moves, or with a basic attack. Players battle in arenas of varying sizes and levels of complexity, controlling characters with a variety of play styles. Brawl, which Project M modifies, is a fighting game with a battle system more similar to that of the game prior to Brawl, Super Smash Bros. Mario (albeit as a palette swap of Mario), Mewtwo, and Roy, who were omitted from Brawl 's roster.

Project M 's character selection screen allows the player to select Zero Suit Samus, Sheik, Squirtle, Ivysaur, or Charizard individually, instead of having to switch to them from another character. The game has received positive comments from reviewers, amassed a player base of over 500,000, surpassed three million downloads, and been played in many professional tournaments. The game's first demo build was released on February 7, 2011, and development continued until December 1, 2015, when the PMDT announced it would cease further development of Project M. In addition, it features a new art style for in-game menus and allows players to choose certain characters individually when they are only accessible as extensions of other ones in Brawl.ĭevelopment started in early 2010 with the goals of reworking the character Falco Lombardi to mechanically play like he did in Melee and increasing the accessibility of the gameplay style, but the project quickly evolved to a full-scale reworking of Brawl.

Mario (albeit as a palette swap of Mario), Mewtwo, and Roy, who were present in Melee but were cut from Brawl. Project M reintroduces the characters Dr. Melee (2001), in response to fan objections to Brawl 's physics, slower-paced gameplay, larger use of chance elements, and mechanics of certain attacks. It is designed to retool Brawl to play more like its two predecessors, Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii, created by the community group known as the Project M Development Team (PMDT previously known as the Project M Back Room). Project M is a mod of the 2008 fighting game Super Smash Bros.
