Capsules containing special chips add new abilities, but X is only able to use one chip per game. The player can further upgrade X's abilities by collecting armor parts found within capsules in some stages. The player can switch the special weapon with and or through the pause menu with START . These special weapons cost energy to use each has its own energy supply. X acquires an assortment of special weapons by defeating Mavericks. The X-Buster can charge a more powerful shot by holding and releasing it when X starts to glow. X's primary weapon is his arm-mounted X-Buster, which has unlimited ammunition but can only have three shots on screen at a time. He can scale walls by jumping off of them otherwise, he slides slowly down. He gains additional jump height when underwater. He jumps with and jumps higher the longer the button is held. X controls similarly to Mega Man, but he is more agile. Furthermore, stages contain hidden items that upgrade X's capabilities, some of which are hidden behind barriers that can only be destroyed by certain weapons. Since each Maverick has a weakness to a particular special weapon, the player can strategize the order in which to complete the stages to best exploit these weaknesses. The stage ends in a fight with a Maverick defeating a Maverick adds a new special weapon to X's arsenal. Each stage has a variety of obstacles and platforming challenges to overcome and enemy robots to fight. The game is an action platformer played primarily as Dr.

Doppler is held accountable, and X and Zero are sent out to contain the new threat.

The reformed Reploids form a utopia near their new mentor called 'Dopple Town.' It seemed that all is well until the former Reploids suddenly revert and once again begin causing trouble, even going so far as to attack Hunter headquarters. Doppler, which prevents the Mavericks from going berserk. The threat of the Mavericks is later neutralized thanks to the technology of the Reploid scientist Dr. Even after two successful efforts by the Hunters X and Zero to stop a Maverick leader named Sigma from attempting to exterminate the human race, Maverick activity seems to continue. Cain, the inventor of the Reploids, establishes a military taskforce called the 'Maverick Hunters' to prevent it.

Since they possess free will, some Reploids are prone to criminal activity and are said to go 'Maverick.' Dr. In the year '21XX,' humans coexist with intelligent robots called 'Reploids' (replicant androids).

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