Mega Man Battle Network 2

"The MEGA RPG Returns and Even Better"

First of all I must say that up until now this game is the best game of the GameBoy Advance, even tough there are better games out there they are not in the GameBoy Advance, so if you have the GBA you better buy this one.

Gameplay

The gameplay of this game is very good, well it is an RPG, so may guess what's about, as most RPG's are you have to play the story line and after ''beating'' the game you have to go collect every single thing that you can collect in this game. Well, anyways I'll tell what's the storyline and what you have to collect, the storyline is about a 12-year old boy, whose name is Lan, and his virtual PET (PErsonal Terminal) MegaMan, you'll discover what's the relation between them when you play the game. Anyways, Lan just got out of school and is on vacations, but vacations are not what he thought it would be, after beating the WWW in the first game a new super organization just rose up again trying to take over the world, so Lan and MegaMan decide to save the world again, after that you have to NetBattle against your real friends and your friends in the game to collect all the chips that are used to fight against each other and also to battle against the viruses that infect the internet and evrything that Lan and MegaMan are supossed to save, you don't kill and you can get killed, instead of go off killing you go off deleting, and instead of dying you get deleted, that's because you are a prgram. I give this game's gameplay a 8/10.

Sound

Well, you know what the sound in a nintendo game is, you have a background music while you are fighting, moving or trying to figure out what to do next in the game, the sound is very good and it does not gets you bored, or freaked out, it doesn't deseperate you either it is a great sound. The sound of this game is great. I give it a 8/10.

Graphics

The Graphics on this game are amazing, some people find them not so good or even bad, but that's because they compare this graphics with the ones of the Nintendo 64, Playstation, Dreamcast, and other consoles that are not handheld and have a better processor. But if you compare the graphics of this game with another GameBoy Advance Game you will see that this ones are one of the best graphics for the GameBoy Advance. It even has it's 3-dimensional taste, it is not 100% 3-D but it is not only 2-D like Super Mario Advance 1 and 2, I am not saying those games are bad, but this one is much, much better and not only for the graphics. I give this game's graphic a 10/10.

Length

This game is long enough to keep you busy for a long time, to firstly ''beat'' this game, or give and end to it it will take about 25 hours if you are good and don't get stuck anywhere, and then after beating it with an 100 % and everything totally passed with nothing else to do on the game depends on how good you are at searching for things, at how good youare battling, how many of your frineds have this game, and other stuff too, so if you want to stay busy for 2 or 3 months, that is only if you are good and play mainly when you are a wake and only stop playing for eating or sleeping well, buy this game. The length is a 10/10.

Controls

The controls are pretty easy to learn and they self-explain during the game, but still I'll put them in this review. The control pad is for moving around in the game or when battling, Select is for selecting, start is for pausing the game when fighting and at the begining where it says ''Press Start'', The B button is for running when you're not fighting and for shooting normal shots when you're fighting, the A button is to talk to people when not battling and for using the chips when battling. The L button is for talking to MegaMan when you are controling Lan, and for talking to Lan when you are controling MegaMan, and finally the R button is for ''jacking in, and jacking out'', to jack in is to get Megaman into the Net a computer or anything else. The controls are well distributed so i give it a 7/10, they could have been more creative.

Replay Value

The replay value of this game is pretty much awesome you'll want to play over and over again until your GBA get ruined, but it will never get ruined so you'll just love this. I give this replay value a 8/10.

Conclusion

Do whatever is possible to buy this game or at least play it beacuse once you are into it you'll never want to stop playing it. I give it a overall of:

Gameplay: 8/10

Sound: 8/10

Graphics: 10/10

Length: 10/10

Controls: 7/10

Replay Value: 8/10

Overall: 51/60

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 08/06/02, Updated 10/25/02