Mega Man X5

"RockMan returns to the PSX, with his last adventure for this plattform"

RockMan, the most loved character from Capcom is back another time, in his last adventure for the PlayStation.

First of all, RockMan X 5 have a lot of new options...looks really strange, but now RockMan is able to bend, and the difficult level is at the options. There's another new option: to regulate the speed, but it's so stupid.

The first time you play the game, you'll see that's a good game, but no good as the fourth chapter was. Starting with a horrible intro, without the good music of the other RockMan games, and a very bad FMV quality. The game continues using the same engine of RockMan X4. Anyway, the engine of RockMan X4 was really good, but Capcom could improve it. The monsters are so big, and the game so fast, as always. The music is so cool, with a lot of power in all songs, just like all the others chapters of RockMan X (the X series is more adult than the classical RockMan games). Another good point is that now you can change from RockMan to Zero in every stage, and select the RockMan modified version too, with his cool white and blue style.

RockMan X5 is another great game, that remember that the 2D are not dead, not like someone use to think. And I wish that a lot of RockMan games will appear, because I really love this saga, and better with all its secrets, and with all the really great final bosses.

But not everything in this game is so good. This time, Capcom spent less money in his blue character, and the music, the full motion videos and the gameplay is less than RockMan X4. But the worst is that the game is really easy (if you like RockMan games, you know that they are creepy difficult), and you can beat the game in one day. And, the final bosses are not really though. Sigma's very easy too, and now the chance of playing the game with another character (if you played with Rockman, with Zero, or with Zero if the first time you played with Zero) is not at the game, so when you'll finish the game, you can throw the CD by the window. The storyline of the game is worst too, now there isn't any anime videos between stages, and the ending is so boring.

If you really love RockMan games, you'll enjoy it, but the fourth chapter is better and better than this new episode. If you're not a real hardcore fan of RockMan, I really recommend you to rent the game, buy it only if you're a real RockMan fan.

Graphics: 8 Sound: 7 Gameplay: 8

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 12/15/00, Updated 12/15/00