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Mega Man X: Official Complete Works

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Mega Man X: Official Complete Works is actually a half of the 336-page Japanese art book "R20" which was published in March 2008 to celebrate Mega Man's 20th anniversary. It's nice to have Capcom translate the book into English. The other half is Mega Man: Official Complete Works

This book retains the paperback format, low gloss pages and layout. The cover has a glossy embossed Mega Man X printed against a matte cover. It's very beautiful and X pops out nicely. This book has 144 pages compared to the Mega Man volume which has 200 pages.

There are both good and bad in releasing the original book as two volumes in English. The bad, of course, is the higher price. The good is the it's thinner and more friendly to the book spine. By comparison, my 320-page "SF20: The Art of Street Fighter", also from Capcom, has slight creases when I open the book wide.

The art inside is arranged by chronological order. The book is filled with colourful character designs, sketches and illustrations from game covers, manga and other merchandise. The variety is amazing. The pages are packed with so many versions of powered up Mega Man X, the bosses and enemies.

The designs are beautiful and detailed. I've never actually played Mega Man X before so this book isn't as nostalgic as the other volume, but whatever you can think of is probably found in this book.

Accompanying the designs are lots of quotes from the Japanese artists. They talk about the characters, ideas, and you can gain some interesting insight into their working environment. There are 8 artists doing the designs and they are Ryuji Higurashi, Hayato Kaji, Keisuke Mizuno, Tatsuya Yoshikawa, Shinsuke Komaki, Haruki Suetsugu, Sho Tsuge and Yoshihisa Tsuda.

This book is a great tribute to the Mega Man X franchise, highly recommended to all fans.

If you like this book, check out Mega Man: Official Complete Works also.

The full list of game titles included are:

* Mega Man X to X8
* Mega Man Xtreme
* Mega Man Xtreme 2
* Mega Man X: Command Mission
* Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X

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ARTWORK!!

This book finally came out, and it was WELL WORTH THE WAIT!!!

TONS of artwork, and a professional presentation, this book is a MUST HAVE for all video game enthusiasts, Mega Man/Rockman fans, and art buffs....

this book has something for everyone, and is COMPLETELY LOADED with tons of greatness, including more artwork than you ever though possible from the
Mega Man X series.

Plus, Amazon's price beats anyplace else you'll find this great book

5 stars, My absolute highest recommendation.

As a long time Rockman X fan, this book was the missing piece to my collection. Chalk full of colorful official art, I couldn't put it down, and had to read all the developer comments on the irregular hunters and irregulars. A must have for anyone even remotely interested in the series, and get that warm fuzzy feeling when they remember bits of their childhood when playing the X series. Apparently...Sigma's chin played a huge role in the developer's mind...but I'll leave you to find out why!

A must have book for any Megaman X Saga Fan, very detailed, very nice illustrations, has cool insider data from developers and much more!!!!

This thing is chock full of information, art, and commentary. It's really cool! There's a lot of blurbage from Inafune and you can see and feel how much love he put into the X series (until 6, hah). Any Megaman X fan is sure to love and enjoy this. It packs so much into a 144 pager! I highly recommend getting it with Mega Man: Official Complete Works, as originally they were part of the same book, like other reviewers have said.

This art book is amazing! It has a lot of illustrations notes from the artist. There are more sketches drawings to finish art works. It mentioned all the X series from different platform game systems. The layout design of the covers from front to back and inside the book is beautiful detail work. It's worth getting this book to have in the bookshelf, since it has amazing and beautiful art!

I've been a Mega Man fan since the Nintendo days, but I became a HUGE Mega Man fan once I played Mega Man X on the SNES! This book gives lots of info on the series direct from it's creators! It's full of cool facts, amazing art both concept and final artworks used in the game, and pretty much everything else you could ask for involving the 'X' series! I love it!

This book MUST be in the collection of any Mega Man fan (X series or even of the original series), so buy it for yourself or knock a friend or family member whose a fan of the games off their feet with it as a gift!

Being a big fan of megaman X this art book was amazing to me. Another awesome item from the megaman universe.

This book was very hard to find, but it was so worth the search! The artwork from one of my absolute favorite videogame series made the games that much more enjoyable. This collection covers all titles in the Megaman X series, (X-9, the Megaman X-treme titles, as well as Command Mission) as of September of 2009. I heavily recomend this title to any fan of the Megaman X series, it is very visually pleasing and introduces many of the inner thoughts of the designers, a very interesting perspective on these games to be sure.

Great artbook. Has images I've never seen both that can't be found on internet. Love Megaman.