Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Ancient 'Mega Man Neo' Video Preview

A friend of mine sent this video the other day; the earliest known footage of 'Mega Man Neo', the work in progress version of Mega Man Legends.



The most notable differences between Neo and Legends are pure cosmetic:

- Rock's character model contains strange lighting effects, almost appears cel-shaded.
- Health/energy gauges are of a completely different design. The "L.Arm", "R.Arm" and "EX" gauges are entirely absent in Legends.

- Rock's running animation seems a bit off, can't quite put my finger on it.
- Bombs dropped by the Cannam Reaverbot lack detail, very generic.
- Rock's shadow is abnormally large.

If you know of any more Mega Man Neo footage, give me a holler, I'd love to see it!

6 comments:

  1. "Rockman Neo," eh? Hmmmm, there is some footage out there, especially since there was a very early release demo that came with some Bio-Hazard (RE) discs.

    Here are a couple videos I found that might interest you:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkrGGQRHNs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8IWNxqX8s

    These are the more interesting of the few that come up on YouTube.

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  2. I've seen this before. I wonder where did this footage come from? I believe it came from the Tokyo Game Show in Spring 1997.

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  3. Oh dear God, it's Navigatr. I wonder if the Retsupurae dudes have done anything with this clip of his.

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  4. bah, the biohazard 2 demo disc for play one has that megaman neo demo, it´s on the web and it isn´t hard to find

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  5. Actually, the BH2 version is slightly different than this one, it's much more complete and closer to the final game in design and gameplay.

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  6. Indeed, Tron's 1st robot changed a lot compared to the Bio Hazard demo:

    http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/04/rare-rockman-neo-footage-bug-eyed.html

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