Mega Man Battle Network 3 | |
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![]() North American Blue version box art
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Developer(s) | Capcom Production Studio 2 |
Publisher(s) | Capcom |
Producer(s) | Keiji Inafune |
Designer(s) | Masahiro Yasuma |
Artist(s) | Shinsuke Komaki Ryuji Higurashi |
Writer(s) | Masakazu Eguchi G. Onishi Shin Kurosawa |
Composer(s) | Yoshino Aoki |
Series | Mega Man Battle Network |
Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance, Wii U Virtual Console |
Release date(s) |
Game Boy Advance
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Genre(s) | Real-time tactical role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 76.46% (Blue) 77.91% (White) |
Metacritic | 77/100 (Blue) 76/100 (White) |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
EGM | 7.5/10 |
Famitsu | 34/40 |
Game Informer | 8/10 |
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GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
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IGN | 7.9/10 |
Nintendo Power | 7/10 |
Mega Man Battle Network 3, known as Battle Network Rockman EXE 3 (バトルネットワーク ロックマンエグゼ3 Batoru Nettowāku Rokkuman Eguze Surī?) in Japan, is a video game developed by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console. It is the third game in the Mega Man Battle Network series, released in 2002 in Japan and 2003 in North America. While in North America and Europe, two complementary versions of the game - Blue and White - exist, marketed simultaneously, this was not the case in Japan. The game was released in a single version in this region, while a Black (ブラック Burakku?) version containing bugfixes, new areas, optional bosses, and other improvements, was released some months after the original. It was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Japan on December 17, 2014 and in North America on May 14, 2015.
The year is 200X. Doctor Wily has reformed the evil organization WWW, and now seeks to release Alpha, an evil prototype version of the Internet that was locked away before the current Internet was set up. To release him, Wily needs the passwords, referred to in-game as TetraCodes, to the firewalls Alpha is trapped behind, which are hidden in secret locations.
A tournament called the N1 Grand Prix is being held, supposedly to determine who is the best NetBattler. It is later revealed to be part of the plan for Wily to steal the TetraCodes, and the WWW attacks between rounds.