Capcom's Mystery Card Game "Project Battle" Looks Promising

Seemingly out of nowhere last night, Capcom allowed select online streamers to try out an unannounced card battling game simply known as "Project Battle". It's an action-oriented card game featuring all kinds of famous Capcom characters including, of course, our favorite blue Maverick Hunter – X! More info and tons and tons of artwork after the jump!

X's design in Project Battle

 (Note: Project Battle is NOT the upcoming Mega Man X mobile project. It is wholely different.)

Not many official details are currently known about Project Battle. However, according to streamer and YouTuber Maximilian_DOOD, the game currently has no announced release platform or release date and that the stream was to give people a taste of the game and gauge reaction to it. Max also stated that he had played an earlier build of the game a couple of weeks ago.

Based on the footage that was streamed, Project Battle appears to be more action-oriented than some other card games. From the start, you choose your main character from a roster of Capcom characters from different franchises to do battle: Mega Man X, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, and Darkstalkers. X was the only playable character from the Mega Man franchise and the only X series character represented. Although other X series characters were depicted in cards, you canonly play as X. There's no telling if more playable characters will be added.

Here's a closer look at X's design. For one reason or another, it is very doll-like in appearance:

After picking a character, you're then asked choose from 3 "ultimate skills" for your main character. For X these were as follows: Heart Tank ("Gives +7HP to a friendly unit") Charge Shot ("Gives, when HP is boosted Gain +1 Attack to all friendly units") and Gaea Armor from X5 ("gives <veil> to all friendly units.")

After that, you need to build a 30-card deck using battle cards. These have a variety of attacks and effects. Battle cards also feature various characters and enemies from many Capcom franchises and PLENTY of Mega Man X characters and villains. Once you create your deck, you're ready to face an opponent.

While streamers were only allowed to show certain modes, the main menu did show the following options: Events, Free Match, Room Match, Hero Stories, Chronicles and Practice. It'll be interesting to see what X's story in this game involves!

The full basic rules on how to play the game can be found in the video below courtesy of Duel Links Meta on YouTube:

If it wasn't apparent enough, pretty much every character here has been glammed-up with brand-new artwork. They look great and they even show battle damage during a match!

 It's also worth pointing out that, for the most part, each character is voiced. These are newly recorded lines, too. It sounds like Ted Sroka might be reprising X once again after his stint in Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite. Just speculation there; nothing is confirmed.

 The animations in the game are coming along nicely. The finer details look good, too. X's stage background featured an abandoned Ride Armor being reclaimed by nature. Music-wise, his theme was a more orchestral sounding remix of the Sky Lagoon theme from Mega Man X4. 

So who else is showing up in this game from the Mega Man X series? While this by no means a complete list of X series characters, these are all the cards we managed to spot in various streams last night. Thanks to Lord Saturn, StupidStudiosN, ELBD and Reploid_21XX for finding and sending us some of these images! Check 'em out!

Zero received a slight re-design as well

Mavericks:

Nice little Middy cameo in this one.

Enemies:

And finally a few more of X:

X's defeat animation:

Hopefully we'll have more to share on this game in the not too distant future! For now you can check out a few hours of gameplay over on Maximilian Dood's channe. What do you guys think? Would this be something you would try out? 

Sources: Maximilian Dood, Duel Links Meta, Reploid_21XX, Lord Saturn, StupidStudiosN and ELBD