Product Description: The Mega Man X Collection brings together six incredible adventures with Mega Man X and Zero! Join them as they relive their amazing first adventures, plus one you may never have seen before: The Blue Bomber's action-packed racing game,Mega Man Battle&Chase,never before released in America! Enjoy a total of seven Mega Man games with remixed soundtracks original and sketch art, plus many other cool features!
Megaman X Collection This game is fun, but the shipping is terrible. I paid for expadite shipping which should arrive from 1 - 3 days but got it 2 weeks later. I did not get a refund for the difference in shipping.
Great Collection! If you love megaman, you'll love the X series. The storyline is disjointed in places, but overall the play control is great and the game is enjoyable.
my overall opinion This was a great game that I defintely enjoyed. It lets you play through the first 6 games in the Megaman X series. The only flaw I saw was that it stopped at six, whereas the actual x series is up to about 11. In the first three games, it doesn't save, it uses a number coded system in which you get the code to that spot when you beat that level. But now in this collection it actualy saves the password so that you don't have to write it down or re enter it every time you want to play your file. This is a great improvement.
A great game overall. Now I wish they would make a later Megaman X Collection 2 #seven and up for the Gamecube!
If you love Megaman X, you'll love this! Really great game. I bought it for my boyfriend who is in love with the series and he disappeared as soon as it came in the mail. XD
Great collection of games for a great price. The Mega Man X series was home to a lot of great games. Pretty much all of the best ones are in this collection, and they are emulated to perfection (I rented 3 of them and owned one of them, so I know). I'll break down each game in this review soon, but first let me describe the collection's up points, as a whole.
The collection has a universal saving system that works the same for each game. There's a total of three slots per game, per memory card (supports slot A and slot B saving). For the first three games this is especially important, since those ones had passwords. Saving in one of those saves the password, only requiring you to press start once the data is loaded.
There's only two real downsides in the collection overall. First, the game (in my experience) WILL NOT work on component video cables. It loads a few intro videos and plays the sound, but no picture is displayed. This is the only Gamecube game where I've seen this happen. Second, the Gamecube controller really isn't built for these games. Regardless, you're allowed to change the button configuration (sadly, you have to change it every time you start X1-X3).
Now, onto the individual games. Just as a general guideline for what visual and sound quality to expect, X1-X3 were originally on the Super Nintendo. X4-X6 were originally on the Playstation 1 (and still 2D).
Mega Man X1 (10 out of 10): This is pretty much the cream of the crop. For an action game, it had a pretty good story and an amazing atmosphere. The controls were pretty tight too. This game also introduced the concept of armor upgrades. For example, getting an arm upgrade will let you charge up your arm cannon to an even more powerful (and prettier looking) blast. This game is also pretty difficult, and though some parts may seem cheap I think the challenge provided is just right. And the final battles are just spectacular. (As a side note, this one has the best soundtrack of all 6, in my opinion).
Mega Man X2 (9 out of 10): Another good one. Even though it isn't as awesome as its predecessor, it's good enough that you probably won't care. Very similar to X1, except with different armor upgrades and different weapons to acquire from bosses. This game is a bit easier overall, but still enough of a challenge to provide some fun.
Mega Man X3 (8.5 out of 10): If this were a port of the SNES version I would give it a 9 out of 10. However, it's a port of a different version (Sega Saturn, I believe), and is, in my opinion, lower quality compared to the SNES version. The visuals are the same, but the sound and music quality took quite a nose-dive in my view. Regardless, for all intents and purposes it plays the same as the SNES version, and even though most people seem to not like this one (any version) I think it was actually pretty solid overall.
Mega Man X4 (8 out of 10): This game has one of the best features ever. You can play as Zero from start to finish if you want to! His weapon is a sword as opposed to X's arm cannon, which really shifts the dynamic of gameplay compared to X. The downside is that this game isn't so great in regards to level design. The levels seem shorter and lacking compared to the previous three games (not only that, they also split each level into two sections and refill your life before the second half, which is dumb). These normal levels actually feel a bit TOO easy to me, but the game makes up for it with some rather intense boss fights (save for one really easy one). The ending boss fights are brutal for me EVEN TO THIS DAY (but I still managed to finish the game).
Mega Man X5 (7 out of 10): This is where I feel the series really starts to falter. In addition to having poor production values (the text translation is awful), the game is also rather asinine in regards to difficulty balance. The game can often be unfairly difficult at times, yet also have some spots of stupor-inducing ease. Also, the level designs are very counter-intuitive here, lending to a bit of redundancy at times and a narrow-minded focus. Still, for some this one may still be worth playing, and it does have an interesting multiple ending mechanic (I won't tell you how that works).
Mega Man X6 (6 out of 10): You know, the real shame about this entry is that it had a somewhat decent story (minus the translation errors) and some rather spectacular music (I'd rank it a close second behind X1. It'd get first if it weren't for the fact that some of the tracks are a bit dumb in contrast to the good ones). The worst part about this one is that the difficulty balance is way, WAY out of whack! The game is hard to the point of masochism in some parts, and not in the well-crafted way that some games manage. Not only that, the fact that you have to follow a surprisingly ultra-specific route to even be able to access the final stages is a real pain. To add insult to injury some of the final stages seem to be impossible to finish with certain armor sets (the armor sets themselves are pretty cool), sometimes forcing you to try a whole stage ALL OVER AGAIN with a different armor set just to finish the stage. In a word, the game feels unpolished. To this day I'm surprised I had the gumption to finish it all the way.
There's an unlockable racing game in this collection, but I haven't acquired it. I haven't heard good things about it though.
Overall, for the first few entries alone this collection is easily worth the money. If you end up liking them all, all the better.
(Note: The overall score I give is NOT an average of the individual game scores. It is my score of the overall package in regards to how much I recommend it).
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