Gameplay Mega Man X3 is similar to the gameplay of previous games of the series and contains many elements, traditional for games of action genre and platformers. The player's task is to go through a number of levels, destroying enemies, gaining various improvements and special weapons after defeating the boss at the end of each location.
Mega Man X and his trusty partner Zero have a new force to reckon with. Who or what has caused a riot of Mavericks to break out in the experimental utopia known as Doppler Town?Named after the scientist reploid, Doppler Town was supposed to be a place where humans and reploids could live in harmony. After discovering a virus that was turning reploids to Mavericks, Doppler’s anti-virus was a big success.
But Doppler itself became infected with the virus and assembled a team to take out the Maverick Hunter Units. The Doppler Effect is about to unfold, with Mega Man X and Zero the only cure for the deadly virus.