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Mega Man X8
Developer(s)	Capcom Production Studio 1
Publisher(s)	Capcom/Taito Corporation Japan
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows
Release date	PlayStation 2 NA 2004-12-07 PAL 2005-02-11 JP 2005-03-10 Windows KOR January 1, 2005JP 2005-03-10 PAL November, 2005
Genre(s)	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	CERO: All Ages ESRB: Everyone PEGI: 7+
Media	1 DVD (PlayStation 2), 2 CDs (PC)
System requirements	Action Replay Max (PlayStation 2) and Trainer (PC, download from web) for use codes

Mega Man X8 (ロックマンX8, Rokkuman Ekkusu Eito^?, Rockman X8 in Japan) is a platform shooter video game published by Capcom and Taito Corporation Japan in 2004 and it is the eighth and most recent game in the Mega Man X video game series.

The game plot focuses on the abduction of a "next-generation" reploid from the construction site of a space elevator, and the subsequent pursuit of his captors. During the course of game play the motivations of these captors comes into focus, and it is up to the heroes, led by Mega Man X, to stop them.

Gameplay

Like its predecessors in the Mega Man X series, the newest installment Mega Man X8 has several modes of gameplay: the game screen, a menu screen, and a stage select screen. New to the X series is the laboratory, where players can obtain upgrades (such as improved armor) in exchange for "metals" found within the game stages. Generally, a player will select the stage he/she wishes to go to on the stage select screen, and play through it on the game and menu screens.

After an introductory stage to familiarize the player with the game mechanics, Mega Man X8 presents the player with a choice of 8 stages, with an Maverick robot serving as the stage boss. After defeating the 8 bosses, a series of fortress stages open up for the player to complete in linear progression until the final boss is defeated. This general format is the template of all X series games.

Combat

X, Axl, and Zero have character-specific attributes to assist them in navigating the terrain and defeating enemies:

Story

It is the year 21XX. The Reploid rebellions across the past years continue, seemingly with no possible solution despite the Maverick Hunters' best efforts.

Seeing this as a completely unnecessary worry, mankind has begun the next generation of research and development by constructing an orbital elevator able to take equipment and handwork to the moon where they seek to expand their horizons to space. This operation is labeled as "Jakob Project", with the orbital elevator bearing its name.

As another part of the project, a highly advanced new generation of Reploids is dispatched to the moon surface in order to work on the plans of the project. Everything seems to be running smoothly until one of the personnel transport carts explodes off the spiral track of the elevator and crashes down near the elevator site.

X, who was tracking around the area, is the first to arrive. After requesting a rescue squad, a rising figure from the debris draws his attention. As the many bog bodies come out of the fire, X's face changes into one of deep shock and fear. A vision of a nightmare appears in front of his very own eyes: an army of Sigmas climbing out of the crimson fire.

A single young Reploid who was being protected by the Sigmas is revealed, as he explains the situation. The Sigmas within the transport are really some of the New Generation Reploids, able to use DNA data to change their shapes. They are the perfect workers because they can change their shape according to a task. Claiming that their new systems makes them immune to all viruses, X relaxes as he asks the identity of the young Reploid. He introduces himself as Lumine, the director in charge of the Orbital Elevator, and the Jakob Project itself.

A few hours after the crash, a Maverick riot near the elevator site in the Galapagos calls for X, Axl, and Zero in order to stop a unique crab-like Mechaniloid. They manage to defeat it, but are then interrupted by a hail of missiles from Vile, who has apparently been resurrected from his earlier defeat in Mega Man X3. Vile has kidnapped Lumine for unknown reasons, and it becomes the Maverick Hunters' mission to rescue him.

However, what the Hunters do not know is that Sigma has returned once again, this time with his most ambitious plot yet. In Mega Man X7, it was revealed that Axl is the first of his kind, a prototype next-generation Reploid that has the ability to copy other reploids' DNA via a copy chip. In addition, these new Reploids have subroutines built in to prevent them from going Maverick. In X8, these next-generation robots have begun rolling off the assembly lines to work on the Jakob Project because they can copy strong Reploids, presumably at a lower cost than building the stronger Reploid itself.

Sigma's plan is simple. Contained on every single copy chip in these robots is Sigma's own DNA, meaning that the next-generation 'Maverick-Proof' reploids are in fact able to go Maverick at will. He seeks to scorch Earth to remove the "old generation" and repopulate it with his "children," a much more efficient method of domination than his previous attempts. What he did not count on was Lumine. When Sigma is defeated in his palace, Lumine steps in to take the entire operation over and kill the Maverick Hunters (it can be assumed he would have eventually tried this without the Maverick Hunters anyway). Lumine gloats to the Hunters that, in order for evolution to take its course, he and his fellow new-generation Reploids must destroy all that remains of the old world, both humans and "obsolete" Reploids alike. After a massive struggle, Lumine is defeated. When Axl walks up to Lumine's empty shell of a body, however, he is shocked as a tentacle springs from it and damages the crystal on his head.

As the three different characters ride back down the Jakob Elevator, Zero wonders if he no longer has to fight now that Sigma is dead for good, while X ponders Lumine's words on evolution. Axl is borderline conscious, but his shattered crystal can be seen glowing eerily with a tiny fragment of a mysterious purple crystal shard.

Characters

Maverick Hunters

• X

• Zero

• Axl

• Alia

• Layer

• Pallette

Notable Mavericks

• Lumine

• Sigma

• Vile

Maverick bosses

PC Version

The PC version is not only a port of the PS2 version, it also features the Window mode, in addition of the full screen and includes the Mouse and Keyboard features, in addition of controller (gamepad). Though never released in retail stores in the United States, the version also features more than 6 languages, which can be changed from the main menu or after starting the game the first time. The PC version also has all of the music and cutscene dialogue encoded in Ogg Vorbis format.

Biblical References

• Noah's Park is named after Noah's Ark. Noah's Ark suggests a new beginning of humanity, which makes Noah's Park mean the new beginning of Reploids and Mavericks.
• The orbital elevator of the Jakob Project is named after Jacob's Ladder.
• Lumine's ultimate attack, Paradise Lost is also the name of John Milton's poem that deals with the fall of Lucifer in Christianity. The name "Paradise Lost" is also used in the game's title, as it appears in the ending credits.
• Lumine's role in the game also somewhat mirrors Lucifer's; being subservient to his superior, then emerging in his true nature to seize control and act upon his desires.
• Bamboo Pandamonium's name might also be a reference to the poem, as Lucifer's court in Paradise Lost was named "Pandemonium."

Easter Eggs

• Cut Man makes an appearance in a hidden fight near the end of Optic Sunflower's stage. Accessing it requires having a Mega Man X: Command Mission save on the memory card, or by entering a special button password on the title screen. For the PC version, top ranks must be earned in the level scenarios. He appears in his sprite form from the original Mega Man, with unaltered music. The only changes are that sound effects are a bit updated, the room is now viewed at a slightly different angle as to not be so flat, Cut Man can throw his Rolling Cutter higher to reach walls and ceiling where your character might be, and Cut Man himself displays a very Paper Mario-esque effect when turning around.

• One of Optic Sunflower's attacks is the Tenshouha, a laser beam. In the room where Sunflower is first battled, the Final Weapon from Mega Man X4 is shown in the background implying that it was the source of the laser beam attack. It is mistake, though, since the Final Weapon was destroyed at the end of X4.

Notes

• The voice-overs were done by Ocean Group, a Canadian based voice-over studio that, incidentally, also voiced the American Mega Man cartoon created by Ruby-Spears ten years prior.

• Burn Rooster is the only Mega Man X boss where defeating the boss doesn't mean the end of the level - there is an additional sequence afterwards that must be completed in order to finish the stage.

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