Another Megaman title with plenty to offer!
Story: After the incident with Elpizo and the escape of the Dark Elf Zero decided to continue lending his support to the resistance. The world now suffers an energy crisis and Neo Arcadia shrinks ever lower in power and having the 4 guardians as their strongest force. Dr Ciel was successful in developing a new energy source. With the energy source the battles between the resistance and neo arcadia will finally come to an end. As Zero escorted Ciel and a few resistance troop to present the energy source they stumbled upon a large devastated fortress. As they were exploring the mysterious fortress they were attacked by neo Arcadians. After Zero successfully defeated the neo Arcadians, Harpuia appeared and warned Zero to stay away from their facility and then left off into the fortress. The next moment Zero heard a strange voice that was seemingly calling him. After confirming the safety of Ciel and the resistance group Zero went inside the fortress to investigate the strange voice, he was then caught up in a fight between Fefnir, Leviathan and a huge Reploid by the name of Omega. Fefnir and Leviathan lost the battle and had to retreat leaving Zero to battle Omega on his own, a few moments later Harpuia appeared and aid Zero in the battle. However no matter how much damage they caused Omega seemed indestructible. The Battle was then interrupted by a strange scientist by the name of Dr Weil, and a few moments later Copy X also appeared. Copy X was revived by Dr Weil and as an expression of gratitude let him join Neo Arcadia. Copy X explained to Zero that he was looking for the Dark elf that escaped, with the help of the Dark elf and Omega they will solve the energy crisis. Copy X, Dr Weil, Harpuia and Omega retreated. Zero returned to the base to explain the situation. It turned out that Dr Weil had a great criminal record that goes back to the elf wars. Apparently the Dark-elf was searching for its babies. If Neo Arcadia get their hands on both the Dark-elf and the baby Elfs it could pose a great threat to the world. Zero and the rest of the resistance decided to search and retrieve the Dark-elf before it gets in the hands of evil. It was a race against time.
Game design: The art style is still the same. There are many great animations done in the game and presentation far exceeds all Megaman games I have ever played. The story of Megaman Zero also goes very deep and you will find yourself wrapped up so much in the story that you would just keep playing to learn more about what’s happening.
Game play: Zero is back for some actions with his Saber and Buster. This time Zero will have all his techniques for his Buster and Saber so you don’t have to keep slashing and shooting to increase techniques. Zero will again gain 2 new weapons, the Recoil Rod and Shield Boomerang. The style system has also been upgraded; you get new styles from getting different stage ranks. The cyber-elf system has also been improved. This time around you will find data laying around stages and at the end of each you will encrypt those data to get information about enemies and items, some data cannot be encrypted so you will have to use the encryption machine in the base. Sound: There are new music and a few minor changes to some voice acting, otherwise nothing new.
The Megaman Zero series is pretty simple and yet very challenging. If you like platforming games and if you like Megaman games you should definitely try this game out!