A new trailer for Monster Hunter: World debuted Friday, featuring more than two minutes of new gameplay from one of the zones players will explore in the action RPG. The footage includes a handful of monsters absent from previous Monster Hunter: World videos, including a few gargantuan adversaries many players will need help to defeat.
Anyone worried Capcom would make drastic changes to Monster Hunter should be able to rest a little easier at this point. The demo shown at E3 earlier this summer felt like a core Monster Hunter title, not some sort of sideshow or gimmicky spin-off, and changes discussed thus far, like the living food chain, should only improve the venerable franchise. This week’s Wildspire Waste trailer makes it abundantly clear that the jungle environment shown back in June wasn’t the only sprawling outdoor area in Monster Hunter: World . The wasteland houses several unique biomes, including mud pits, sand dunes and a large oasis. Wildspire is also home to an equally-diverse assortment of creatures, all of which can be hunted for crafting materials.
Our latest look at Monster Hunter: World also features a surprisingly diverse cross-section of the weaponry we’ll see in 2018. Projectile weapons appear throughout the footage -- and seem like they’ll be particularly useful in the mud pits -- along with other weapon types we haven’t seen very much of, like chain-blades and lances. But we’ll have to wait until 2018 to see all of the over-the-top weaponry we’ll be able to build after the hunting begins.
For a closer look at Wildspire Waste, before we get to explore it ourselves in Monster Hunter: World, take a few minutes to watch the new trailer from Capcom (embedded up top). Then head down to the comments and let us know if you’re planning to try Monster Hunter: World when the game heads to PC and consoles early next year.
Monster Hunter: World is in development for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The game is expected to debut in early 2018.
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