So far
OK. Many people keep submitting stuff saying theres going to be certain characters and other stuff. And some of it isn't even ture so I am going to continually update you with stuff direct from their site so if you don't beleive me check it out on www.smashbros.com
First of all here are the confirmed characters.
Veteran Fighters (that's what nintendo is calling them)
Mario
Link
Pikachu
Kirby
Fox
Samus
Zelda
Bowser
Donkey Kong
Newcomers
Meta Knight
Pit
Zero Suit Samus*
Wario
Snake(form Metal Gear Solid if you don't know who he is)
*Zero Suit Samus is a transformed state of Samus
Here are the confirmed stages
Battlefield
Delfino Plaza
Yoshi's Island
Lylat Cruise
Bridge of Eldin(from Zelda Twilight Princess)
Smashville(the town from Animal Crossing)
Note: all stages now make changes during battle. One great example is on the Bridge of Eldin where the bridge is periodicly bombed and a big piece falls off but like in the game the piece is warped back to the stage.
Here are the confirmed items and what they do
Gooey Bomb- A bomb that sticks to anything. Including people!
Cracker Launcher- A launcher that shoots firecrakcers rapidly
Crates and Barrels- The only real change these containers make is when the're on certain stages.As in their appearance changes.
Banana Peel-Do you really have to ask?
Bumper-In case you don't know this is that sheild like item from the first Super Smash Bros.
Pokeball-Of course you know that these are those items from the Pokemon franchise that release a Pokemon when thrown.
Here are the confirmed Pokemon that appear
Groudon- This legendary just stands on the stage and burns whoever touches him.
Deoxys-Deoxys flies to the background of the stage and fires off a Hyperbeam attack.
Assist Trophy-This item summons a non-playable character to assit the one who summoned him or her.
Here are the confirmed characters that can can be summoned
Hammer Bro- He just throws his hammers at oncomming opponents like he does best.
Nintendog- If you didn't see the movie then you wouldn't know that all it does is hop up on the screen and block everyones view.No real help huh?
Samurai Goroh- This foe of Captain Falcon slahes away at all in his vicenity.
Dr.Wright-This character from Sim City summons a skyscrapper right below opponents toes.
Two last things concerning the characters
First Samus transforms into Zero Suit Samus after she uses her Final Smash.
Finally I know lots of you are hoping for many third party chracters such as Sonic but Nintendo has comfirmed there will only be one or two excluding Snake.
But that does mean 3 so my prediction would be Snake,Sonic and one other.
Until I get more updates.
^_^
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