An formidable new Monster Hunter cell recreation is beneath growth by Capcom and TiMi Studio Group, the developer behind Age of Empires Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, and Pokémon Unite. Titled Monster Hunter Outlanders, it is billed as a “new, fully-featured recreation” within the collection with multiplayer hunters and expansive exploration. It can be free-to-play and have in-app purchases, a consultant tells IGN.
The preliminary trailer exhibits off a few of what followers can count on from the brand new cell launch, which guarantees an open-world teeming with acquainted monsters like Anjanath and Great Jagras. As with the core video games within the collection, Monster Hunter Outlanders seems to incorporate a number of biomes that may be explored utilizing a glider just like the one Link makes use of in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It options spectacular graphics regardless of being a cell recreation, and might be performed both solo or with associates.
“It’s time for cell gamers to totally get pleasure from what makes Monster Hunter one of the crucial beloved franchises in gaming,” TiMi Studio Group producer Dong Huang says. “Monster Hunter Outlanders not solely presents gamers an genuine searching expertise, nevertheless it does it in a large open world that includes the group and social programs gamers are searching for in the present day.”
Monster Hunter Outlanders will not be the one Monster Hunter recreation on cell, nevertheless it appears to be a extra conventional expertise than Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now, an augmented actuality recreation launched in 2023. TiMi Studio Group says it can search to mix the hunts the collection is thought for with common world occasions and actions.
Monster Hunter Outlanders doesn’t but have a launch date, however TiMi Studio Group says it is planning to conduct a number of playtests prematurely. In the meantime, Capcom can also be making ready to launch Monster Hunter Wilds, which acquired off to a wild begin with greater than 463,000 gamers on Steam earlier this month. Monster Hunter Wilds formally releases on Xbox, PS5, and PC on February 28.
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