Capcom Releases Mega Man 10 Video

Mega Man 10 was released earlier in the month on WiiWare, with the game soon arriving on the PlayStation Network and finally hitting Xbox Live by the end of the month. Capcom released a new video showcasing Bass, who will be available as downloadable content for the game.

In Mega Man 10, the year is 20XX, and a suspicious outbreak of Roboenza — essentially a robot flu — has broken out. It spreads through the world like wildfire, bringing down robots everywhere. Infected robots have rampaged out of control, destroying the city and holding it hostage. It falls to Mega Man to take on this sinister threat and get to the bottom of the viral mystery.

The video showcases Bass in action ahead of his release as a playable downloadable character.

Mega Man 10 continued the retro-styled revival that Capcom began with Mega Man 9 in 2008, returning the series to deliberately old-school 8-bit visuals and chiptune music rather than the more modern look used in some of the series’ earlier 3D spinoffs. The approach was aimed squarely at longtime fans who grew up with the NES-era titles, recreating the tight, pattern-based platforming and boss-weakness puzzles that defined the classic series from the start.

Bass first appeared as a rival character in Mega Man 7 on the Super NES, later headlining his own game, Mega Man & Bass, and his inclusion in Mega Man 10 as downloadable content gave players a faster, more aggressive alternative to Mega Man himself, complete with his own dash and rapid-fire buster shot. Series veterans have long treated Bass as a foil to Mega Man – similarly powerful but driven by rivalry rather than a desire to protect humanity from Dr. Wily’s schemes.

As with Mega Man 9, the game followed the series’ traditional structure of selecting from a roster of Robot Masters in any order, defeating each to gain a unique weapon that proves effective against another boss later in the lineup. Mega Man 10 also introduced an Easy difficulty option for the first time in the mainline series, sitting alongside the traditional Normal and Hard modes, giving newer players an easier way into a franchise historically known for punishing difficulty.

The game rolled out gradually across download platforms rather than all at once, arriving on Nintendo’s WiiWare service first before making its way to the PlayStation Network and finally Xbox Live Arcade, a staggered release pattern that was common for download-only titles at the time.