Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be a fighting game for the Nintendo Wii. It is the third entry in the Super Smash Bros. series, following Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64 and Super Smash Bros. Melee on the Nintendo GameCube. Though an official release date has not been announced, Brawl is expected to be released in the first half of 2007.

Solid Snake
Many gamers were surprised when the trailer for the game announced that Solid Snake would be a playable character in the game; up to that point, only four games (Metal Gear, Snake's Revenge, Ghost Babel, and The Twin Snakes) had been released Nintendo systems in nearly twenty years, and since 1998's Metal Gear Solid the series had rarely left Sony consoles.

According to numerous sources, Hideo Kojima was a fan of the original Super Smash Bros. In 2001, Kojima apparently "begged" Nintendo to include Snake in Melee, to which Nintendo apparently agreed (since Snake had not appeared in a Nintendo game in over a decade and would not until 2004's The Twin Snakes, he would most likely have been included as a "throwback" character, much like the Ice Climbers or Pit); however, the game was too far into development to include Snake, but the idea was kept to include Snake in Brawl.

It has been stated by many sources that Snake will not use his familiar SOCOM in the game, but will certainly use explosives and may quite possibly use CQC for fighting. Also, a quick shot of a trailer reveals Snake sneaking up on Link (the main character of Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series, specifically from LoZ:Twilight Princess) in an area that resembles a room from the Shadow Moses base, implying that a Metal Gear-based level will appear in the game.

Since Nintendo has frequently included multiple characters from a single series in the Smash Bros. series (seven characters from the Mario series are playable in Melee), it has been speculated that Raiden or, less likely, even Revolver Ocelot may make an appearance as a playable character.