Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter

Capcom
March 10, 2004
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Developers
Capcom
Release Date
March 10, 2004 (21 years and 2 months ago)
Publishers
Capcom
Franchises
Monster Hunter

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Monster Hunter is an online action-hunting game by CAPCOM for the PlayStation 2 released on March 11th, 2004 in Japan, and September 21st, 2004 in North America. The game is a fantasy hunting simulator filled with many deadly monsters. Like actual hunting, successfully killing or capturing the monsters requires significant strategy, skill and involved resource management. While initially considered a commercial failure, Monster Hunter would go on to become one of CAPCOM's highest selling franchises. Despite featuring an offline mode, Monster Hunter was primarily an online game. The official servers were shut down on December 31, 2007 in North America and Europe, and July 1, 2011 in Japan. This means that it is now impossible to play online on official CAPCOM servers. Despite this, the game still features a small active community on private servers.

Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Platforms
PlayStation 2
Developers
Capcom
Release Date
March 10, 2004 (21 years and 2 months ago)
Publishers
Capcom
Franchises
Monster Hunter

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Capcom announced a new Monster Hunter game. It’s called Monster Hunter XX (as in “double cross”) and has one rather messy looking logo. The game is for the 3DS and will be out March 18, 2017 in Japan. No word yet on an international release.

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Brian Ashcraft

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