The story of Mega Man X3 is set during the 22nd century (the year '21XX'), in which humans coexist with intelligent robots called 'Reploids' (replicant androids). However, the game, particularly the 32-bit version, has received miscellaneous criticism from reviewers for its lack of improvements to the series.Ĭapcom announced that Mega Man X3 would be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014 and the New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2016.

Critical reception for Mega Man X3 has been above average. The game was also ported to Japanese mobile phones in 2010. This version was included on the North American Mega Man X Collection in 2006. Like its predecessor, Mega Man X2, X3 features the 'Cx4' chip to allow for some limited 3D vector graphics and transparency effects.Ī 32-bit version of Mega Man X3 was released on the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Windows in various countries. Mega Man X3 is the first game in the series in which Zero is a playable character in addition to X. The player traverses a series of eight stages in any order while gaining various power-ups and taking the special weapon of each stage's end boss. Mega Man X3 follows in the tradition of both the original Mega Man series and the Mega Man X series as a standard action- platform game. It is the third game in the Mega Man X series and the last to appear on the SNES.

The game was originally released in Japan on Decemand later in North American and PAL regions in 1996. Mega Man X3, known as Rockman X3 ( ロックマンX3, Rockman X3 ?) in Japan, is an action platformer developed and published by Capcom for the SNES.

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