In the future, robots will have become saturated and not really a danger anymore. Instead, cyberspace is going to be a place that contains many mysterious things. In which, the Cybercrime organizations will use artificial intelligence to dominate the world. They can travel around the physical network and create malicious viruses to destroy or steal human workings. The head of this criminal chain is Wily. He has teamed up with another organization called WWW to commit crimes. Having foretold of these dangers, Dr. Tadashi Hikari develops another program to protect humans from attacks of viruses. NetNavi artificial intelligence was created, which is capable of fighting and using PET’s weapons, through the BattleChips.
Although there is still the appearance of Mega Man with its signature weapon MegaBuster in the role-playing style, it is no longer a side-scrolling fighting game compared to the previous Series, but was replaced by strategy-based gameplay as the core. The battles take place on a 6×3 grid, in cyberspace. In it, the player will control two parallel characters, including Lan – in real life and MegaMan.EXE – a computer program. Lan is a human being, that’s why he can travel around the world, interact with others, search for dangers in computer programs, buy items, and sometimes communicate with MegaMan.EXE through PET.
Typically, battles are random, which can occur whenever danger is detected, or clearer is viruses. Players will control the hero in the cyberspace, including using the Mega Buster gun and moving on the grid to attack all of the enemies. The ultimate goal is to reject the Viruses by eliminating its HP completely. However, they are quite large, and their strength improves over time, so the difficulty level will increase rapidly. Therefore, in order to fight more effectively, it is necessary to use additional programs, called “Battle Chips.” Its mechanism of operation is quite simple, just upload data for artificial intelligence is MegaMan.EXE, so that he can cause more powerful attacks, increase defenses, improve HP, or sometimes maneuver additional forces are Navis to assist. In turn, the system will provide five different types of chips for you to choose from. Of course, they also have some limitations that have not been improved yet, bring different effects, and sometimes do not work. Therefore, calculate carefully in each turn to not be defeated by the Virus.
