Nintendo held its Space World 2006 event on Friday and as promised there was a new trailer for one of the Wii's most anticipated titles, Smash Bros. Brawl. First off I have to say I was disappointed with the end. Nintendo said that the trailer would contain a new character. I was hoping to see a never before seen character (I was actually hoping to see Sonic) but apparently by new Nintendo merely meant a character that hadn't yet appeared in Brawl and the end of the trailer revealed the return of Fox. Ignoring the fact that almost everyone already knew Fox was coming back the trailer revealed that he's sporting his awful design from Star Fox Command. I'm personally worried about Nintendo making such a big deal out of the appearance of Fox. Most are under the impression that everyone from Melee will be making a return save for Mr. Game and Watch, Young Link, and the Ice Climbers, characters whom the team had alrady announced removing. However, the "announcement" of Fox kind of makes it seem like maybe they're rewriting the roster. Personally I'm hoping that they just finished programming Fox and that they're just going to announce the returning characters in the trailers as they finish with them.

Roster worries aside the trailer was awesome. The trailer from E3 was much more cinematic and put much more emphasis on special moves. This new trailer showed pretty much 90% gameplay. We got to see a preview of a bunch of new levels, all of which looked amazing, including a Mario Kart level in the vein of Melee's Mute City and a destructible level based on Kid Icarus. The trailer also showed a great deal of combo based attacks which not only revealed just how Snake is going to fight (Rocket Launcher!) but also eased worries that the game was going to be simplified. The hype for this game just continues to build and I really hope it hits in early 2007. Hopefully the entire Melee cast returns (with the clone move-sets (C. Falcon and Ganondorf, Marth and Roy) fixed), along with some other new Nintendo characters and hopefully Sonic (though Sonic and Rockman would be beyond awesome). Man, I'm glad this game isn't a launch title or not having a Wii pre-order would be even more maddening.