Following the news that the classic Mega Man games will finally land on mobile in early 2017, both for iOS as Android, it is very likely that you entered the bug to bring back the golden years of 8-bit gaming and that you can't wait for during January offer to download this game in our country If that's your case, don't worry, because we have just what you need: Rockbot
Rockbot is an open source project that seeksreplicate totally the original game of Mega Man, with the same premise and game dynamics, as just adding a bit of color to the costumes of the main characters. The game is available for free for Android devices, leavingusers Apple no alternatives, if we don't count the mobile edition of Mega Man X of Capcom, which is the next saga that Super Nintendo released in 1993, going from 8 to 16 bits Of course, downloading the game from the App Store has a cost of5 euros
Set in a “futuristic” Tokyo of the year 20XX , the city suffers the rebellion of some evil robots thirsty for blood and war.The police can't deal with this enemy, but scientists have found an answer in a police prototype that mixes man with robot. Rockbot is his name, and Betabot his battle partner, and together they will restore order to a chaotic Tokyo Does the story ring a bell? No attempt has been made to hide the slightest bit the idea of this project, since it responds to relentless demand of fans of Mega Man to have a mobile version, fans who Capcomhad been forgotten for years.
The controls try to reproduce those of the original NES , with the cross to move, the three colored buttons and the start button to start and pause. Still, the gameplay suffers a bit and it's hard to get hold of the controls at first. Afterwards, all that remains is to advance through the various phases with a high level of difficulty, in the purest style of the platform games of yesteryear In old school games, the ability to clear levels was given by the user's mastery to get around obstacles on time and from shoot at the right times.
After the sudden appearance of Super Mario Run in the Play Store and the decision of Capcom of publishing the 6 original Mega Man titles, the first stone to bury the vast world of imitations on Android has been released. The recent revenue reports have made it clear to us that mobile gaming is the leading format in current entertainment, so it is quite likely that we will soon find more adaptations of traditional sagas, in 8 and 16 bits, apart from all thecurrent generation of mobile games that are already sweeping players.
For now we can enjoy Rockbot and its adventures until its original version arrives , and in case we don't want to pay the 2 euros that each of the 6 games will cost, we won't notice a either big difference
