Mega Man Zero | |
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Developer(s) | Inti Creates |
Publisher(s) | Capcom |
Director(s) | Ryota Ito Yoshinori Kawano |
Producer(s) | Takuya Aizu Keiji Inafune |
Designer(s) | Masahiro Mizukoshi |
Artist(s) | Toru Nakayama (character) |
Composer(s) | Ippo Yamada |
Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance, Wii U Virtual Console |
Release | Game Boy Advance Wii U Virtual Console |
Genre(s) | Action, platform, RPG, Hack and slash, Run 'n gun |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Aggregate scores | |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 81% |
Metacritic | 82 out of 100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
CVG | 8 out of 10 |
EGM | 8 out of 10 |
Famitsu | 26 out of 40 |
Game Informer | 8.3 out of 10 |
GamePro | |
GameSpot | 8.2 out of 10 |
GameSpy | 85 out of 100 |
GameZone | 9.1 out of 10 |
IGN | 8.8 out of 10 |
Nintendo Power | 8.4 out of 10 |
Mega Man Zero, known in Japan as Rockman Zero (ロックマン ゼロ?), is a video game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console. It is the first installment in the Mega Man Zero series, the fifth series in Capcom's Mega Man video game franchise. It was released in Japan on April 26, 2002, and in North America and Europe later that year.
Mega Man Zero is set 100 years following the Mega Man X saga of games. The plot follows the android protagonist Zero, who is awakened from a century of sleep to aid a human scientist named Ciel and her resistance force in a fight against the utopia of Neo Arcadia, which is attempting to unjustly wipe out all androids it views as threats. Like its predecessors in the original Mega Man series and Mega Man X series, Mega Man Zero is an action-platformer. However, the game forgoes the franchise's traditional format of letting the player select stages and acquire each boss's weapon. It instead features a smaller number of upgradable weapons and mission-based progression within a large, interconnected world. The player may also acquire special power-ups called "Cyber Elves" which supplement the player's abilities or add various effects to a mission's stage.