Mega Man Battle Network 4
| Mega Man Battle Network 4 | |
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European Red Sun 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 |
| Writer(s) | Masakazu Eguchi Hiroshi Yamashita |
| Composer(s) | Toshihiko Horiyama |
| Series | Mega Man Battle Network |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance, Wii U Virtual Console |
| Release |
Game Boy Advance
Wii U Virtual Console |
| Genre(s) | Real-time tactical role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 69% (Blue Moon) 71% (Red Sun) |
| Metacritic | 67/100 (Blue Moon) 68/100 (Red Sun) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | B- |
| Famitsu | 34/40 |
| Game Informer | 7/10 |
| GamePro |    |
| GameSpot | 6.8/10 |
| GameSpy | |
| IGN | 6.5/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.7/5 |
Mega Man Battle Network 4, known as Rockman EXE 4 (ロックマンエグゼ4 Rokkuman Eguze Fō?) in Japan, is a video game developed by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console. It is the fourth game in the Mega Man Battle Network series. Like Battle Network 3 before it, Battle Network 4 has two different versions, Red Sun (Tournament Red Sun in Japan) and Blue Moon (Tournament Blue Moon in Japan), that differ in story and gameplay details. Battle Network 4 is compatible with the e-Reader, and can be linked up with Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation and the Battle Chip Gate for NetBattles. It is able to link with Mega Man Zero 3, and contains references to Konami's Boktai series.
The beginning of the game shows the player a space research center known in-game as NAXA. Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid speeding toward the earth that, if made contact with, would end all life on earth.
The game then cuts to the protagonists, Lan Hikari and MegaMan.EXE (in this continuity a Network Navigator or NetNavi, an in-universe AI program), going shopping with their father. While in the electronics district, they find themselves pitted against a NetNavi known as ShadeMan, portrayed has having strong dark powers. Upon defeating ShadeMan, he disappears, dropping unknown data. It is revealed to Lan and MegaMan to be a DarkChip, a program described as unleashing great power at the cost of the Navi's soul (their goodness and well-being). The duo are warned to never use it under any circumstances.
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