Mega Man X7 (0)

First release date

2003-10-14

Platform

PlayStation 2 PC

Developer

Capcom Production Studio 3

Publisher

Capcom

Theme

Mega Man X Mega Man

Franchise

Mega Man X Mega Man

Aliases

Rockman X7

Overview

Mega Man X7 (known in Japan as Rockman X7) is a 3D action platformer developed and published by for the on October 14, 2003. It was also released for the in some parts of Asia sometime in 2003-2004.

The seventh main installment of the Mega Man X series (and the sequel to ), Mega Man X7 brings the franchise to 3D (featuring and third-person gameplay segments) while adding a new protagonist: , a cocky former member of a Reploid group who has the ability to use an arsenal of (that can gain new powers by defeating bosses), , and robots that he encounters ( of regular enemies). It is also the first game where players can switch between characters in real time and the first where the series' main protagonist, , cannot be played from the start.

Set in , the game takes place sometime after the events of Mega Man X6. When crimes from are on the rise, a new group of reckless anti-Maverick vigilantes, called Red Alert, was formed. One of the group's members, , tries to disband from the group (which is now a group of mercenaries) to become a Maverick Hunter, and is hunted down by the group's leader (). When he is brought in to the Maverick Hunter HQ by to pay for being responsible for wreckage in a city (while being hunted down by Red Alert robots), Red releases eight of his captured Mavericks and issues a challenge to the Maverick Hunters for the custody of Axl. With retired to a support role, it's up to Axl and Zero to take down the Mavericks and bring Red Alert to justice.