Mega Man ZX | |
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North American box art
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Developer(s) | Inti Creates |
Publisher(s) | Capcom |
Director(s) | Ryota Ito Yoshinori Kawano |
Producer(s) | Takuya Aizu Ken Horinouchi Keiji Inafune |
Designer(s) | Kinshi Ikegami |
Programmer(s) | Akihiro Shishido Takayuki Inoue Shinichi Sema Hirokazu Kawagishi Hironori Ikeda |
Artist(s) | Makoto Yabe |
Writer(s) | Makoto Yabe |
Composer(s) |
Ippo Yamada Masaki Suzuki Ryo Kawakami |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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Genre(s) | Action, platform, Metroidvania |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Aggregate score | |
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Aggregator | Score |
Metacritic | 76 out of 100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Famitsu | 31 out of 40 |
GameSpot | 7.7 out of 10 |
GameSpy | 7.3 out of 10 |
IGN | 8.2 out of 10 |
Nintendo Power | 8.5 out of 10 |
Play | 9 out of 10 |
X-Play |
Mega Man ZX, known in Japan as Rockman ZX (ロックマンゼクス?), is a video game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the first game in the sixth series of the Mega Man video game franchise. For the first time in the Mega Man series, the game features both a male and a female protagonist. A sequel, entitled Mega Man ZX Advent, was released in 2007.
Two centuries after the events of Mega Man Zero series, in the year 25XX, humans and Reploids now coexist peacefully.
After some time of peace and prosperity; humans, reploids, and the humanoids (cyborgs in the Mega Man ZX universe) of Earth manage to revive some of the former Nations. After which, several incidents of reploids becoming Mavericks are reported. The Mavericks made several areas dangerous. Trading between nations became obstructed, which caused the nations to become divided into utopian cities such as "Innerpeace." These cities became safe havens for peaceful reploids, humans and humanoids. The dangerous Mavericks known as Mechaniloids began to appear in the outlands and threatened the peace. The utopian cities and the outlands were divided into separate Areas and remarkable developments were made due to the efforts of the corporation Slither Inc.
Slither Inc. possessed technology unearthed from ruins in the Outlands. Peaceful life in Innerpeace is maintained by using the technology offered by Slither Inc.
Still, Maverick attacks occur in the frontier regions, which are more exposed to the enemy. To repel the attacks, the humanoids in these areas developed an organization devoted to the defending their region. This organization is known as the Guardians. The Guardians defend the Outlands and investigate the cause of the Maverick attacks. The original leader of the Guardians disappears during the investigation of an Outlands area.