- Use tag-team strategies by switching between Mega Man, Zero and Axl
- Grab the weapons from the beaten bosses to add to your arsenals
- Take on new abilities with valuable power-up chips or metal from enemies
- Play through over and over, to collect multiple story endings & hidden items
- Classic Mega Man stage design – Finish the stages and sub-quests in any order
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Mega Man X 8 adds more depth and variety to this classic gaming series. With Earth in ruins after Sigma’s invasion, humanity builds a new kind of reploid to colonize the moon. Sigma has corrupted their DNA and made them turn on humans. You and your teammates head to the moon for outer-space adventure of epic proportions!… More >>
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The game wass short lived, my son completed the game within a couple hours of receiving it and has not played it since. However, he stayed with it until he finished it.
I got this game for christmas 2004 and loved it but I should have got X7. X7 looks better and is better than this. I still like this game but I wanna get x7.
Pros: Back to the roots, sweet dauble team attacks, sweet power ups.
Cons: They haven’t put Bass (my fav Megaman character of all time) in the X series, frustrating at times, hard boss battles, mediorce voice acting (english ones), graphics arent good as X7.
Graphics: 7/10: Well, of course, x7 looked better. But these graphics aint bad. But I would have been more amazed if these graphics were used in the past (not megaman past, gaming past).
Sound: 5/10: While the music is good. The voice acting is terrible. English voice acting, to be honest. But if there is a japanese track sound might go up to 8/10.
Gameplay: 8/10: Ain’t perfect but fun!…….. But hard. The game can be a bit frustrating at times but the game is still fun. BUT X7 is better! Axl has his guns, which I think arent very strong but makes up for the rapid bulltes. X has his buster cannon, which is strong and gets crazey at full power when a laser comes (not the standard armor) but cannot aim upwards. Zero has his Z- Saber which is used for close combat. But some bosses will attack at close-range so it might give Zero quite a while to solve the problem.
Story:……. I forgot the story.
Overall: Megaman X8 is a fun game but it has shortcomings. Be ready for this game when you buy it.
I quit playing Megaman games back at Megaman X3. Not that the games where getting at all bad, just repetitive. X8 keeps it real to the side-scrolling shooting fest. However its far too frustrating. Reason -being all the minigames. I don’t know what else to call them. You know how previous Megaman games had a couple of stages where you start off in a ship or something other than the normal routine ? Well now ALL the stages are like that. Sooner or later you’ll have to do some petty cheap jump and dodge game. Megaman isn’t made for that. He can dash and jump, considering we aren’t shooting thats about it. I gave the game an extra star for having tons of cool aspects. But considering the game has no difficulty settings, most will never get to use them.
This Game overall is a 4 of 10….and i’m a real fan, im not letting the graphics fool me, the gameplay has sum kinx to work out….for starters: WHERE ARE ALL THE HEALTH CAPSULES?????? during the game i probably get like 1 or two capsules, i mean yea u can tag in ur partner, but wat happens when your both low on life, i mean it would have been alright if while ur fighting your partner’s life gradually rises, but no….dont get me wrong though, after x6 and x7, i thought it was over, but x8 did surprise me…the graphics r excellent and i like the tag team method, but still jus like x6, TOOO HARD, at least for me…i beat x4 and x5, those were challenging ,x6 dont get me started on…
all in all, rent it before you buy it, just to be sure, this game might not be for everybody
I have to shake my head in utter disbelief at how far the Mega Man X series has fallen from its glory days on the SNES and it’s first outing, X4, for the PSX. Then again it’s really not hard to see why looking at the last few games, but I can’t fathom how Capcom let this happen…
Mega Man X8 does manage to make many improvments over it’s prevoius predecessors. First and most notably is the revamping of the tag team system started in X7. Now when one of your characters bites the big one, the other jumps in and continues the fight (which didn’t happen in X7), and the ability do tag team moves (which includes a impressive ripoff the Matrix movies due to its look) and revive fallen comrades through use of the attack gauge which fills when you combo, is a welcome change.
X8 also ditches any attempt of going into full-out 3D gameplay like X7 (which we all know was a complete failure). Only two stages (the hover bike levels) break the 2D game with 3D graphics design. The voice acting is also a huge improvement over X6 (which didn’t include english voice acting at all) and X7 (which had english voice acting but was horrid).
Unfotunately, these improvements can’t hide the fact the rest of the gameplay has been recycled over half a dozen times. Almost all of X8′s stages can be compared to level concepts in previous games, which is only natural considering the series is over ten years old, but it’s just a little too obvious when you get that feeling of deja vu, or when your asking yourself why your even playing this game in first place.
This feeling is enforced further by the fact Capcom went to the trouble of ressurecting one of the more “classic” and “cooler” Mega Man X villians (I’m not gonna tell you and ruin it for you, but who really cares at this point?) for this installment, but you’ll ultimately realize bringing this character back from the junk heap (for the second freakin time mind you!) is just another sorry ploy to arouse player interest and avoid having to put to much creativity and thought into creating new villians. Storywise, X8 has a better plot than many of the prevoius games, but that really doesn’t matter as Capcom never really gave any of the X games a truly great story or a twist you talk about for years to come (well they did come close in X5 with the whole Zero thing, but they screwed that up in X6).
X8 is not a bad game, but it definaitely is not a great game in any way, shape, or form. If your just getting into Mega Man X, do yourself the biggest favor (and save some money) and buy Mega Man X4 for the PSX (which is the best game in the series in my opinion, and is a greatest hit – I wonder why that is?) If your a fan, you probably already have that, but I honestly can’t recommend buying X8 for it’s retail price of $40 (no, wait, $39.95). The game is honestly not worth buying for that much. Wait for price to come down, buy a used one, rent it, or borrow it off a friend that bought it.
Hopefully X9 will be the last game in the series (cause their was only nine original Mega Man games, excluding the Game Boy games and side games – it would make sense). If Capcom is not going to let the game evolve beyond it’s tired and true boundries, or even add somekind of two player mode, then I rather the series be put out of its misery that countinue making so-and-so sequels.