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Mega Man X: Legacy Collection

Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into 32-bits: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. The heroic robot grows stronger as he takes…

87 24 July 2018

Mega Man X: Legacy Collection is a platform developed by Capcom, released 24 July 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mega Man X: Legacy Collection is

Mega Man X: Legacy Collection is a platform game developed by Capcom and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MT Framework.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into 32-bits: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. The heroic robot grows stronger as he takes down Mavericks and steals their weapons, and also has the ability to dash and wall jump for thrilling, fast-paced combat. Mega Man X’s mysterious friend, Zero, also joins the fray as a playable character later in this collection.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mega Man series

Mega Man X: Legacy Collection is the 186th of 226 entries we hold in the Mega Man series. The next entry was Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 in 2018. Its critic score of 87 is 10 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Mega Man X: Legacy Collection holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mega Man X: Legacy Collection launched on 24 July 2018, within three weeks of Dead Cells, Octopath Traveler, Overcooked! 2 and Sonic Mania Plus. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Dead Cells, Octopath Traveler, Overcooked! 2, Sonic Mania Plus.

Cheats and codes

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When did Mega Man X: Legacy Collection come out?
Mega Man X: Legacy Collection was released on 24 July 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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