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Monster Hunter
PlayStation 2
Released On: Sep 21, 2004
68
7.5
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
68
41% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
51% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
68
41% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
51% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Whilst certainly not free of issues, Monster Hunter is equal measures out-and-out fun and out-and-out terror, delivered fantastically well in both online and offline modes. The game provides a PSO-style game for the PS2, and offering pick-up-and-play online gaming without the need to commit to hours at a time.
You can see the potential here the instant you set foot in town, but the real fun is found only online. The rest of the elements are merely so-so. [Nov 2004, p.134]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
17% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
17% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 User Ratings
7.5
66% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
17% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
17% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
One summer, me and my cousin discovered this game, we were like 14, and became obsessed. We managed to isolate ourselves for two or three weeks at my aunt's house and played it on-line non-stop, taking turns. Still one of my best memories ever. After that, I played this game so much I was probably one of the best players in my server. Tons for materials, every single interesting weapon, full fatalis armor, etc. I remember helping noobs by headlocking the monsters for them, despite getting nothing from it. So, so many good memories.
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PlayStation 2
Look here, proof that game reviewers are shills looking for advertising dollars!
Boy I remember the old gamespot review where they played this game naked without equipping armor then continued on to dump all over it. Well if you can find that review. Unlike the critics here they tried to cover up their tracks. Or at least that's what it looks like, when you don't even attempt to fairly review a game. But then again, no one was paying for adds here is the USA.
Now look at the absolute monster of a franchise that spawned from this title. And I know its a bad joke to call something "Dark Souls like", but man Dark Souls sure was a lot like this game. Where are all the I-Frame dodge rolls and giant two handed weapons before this title? I cant say for sure, but this sure feels like the spiritual grandfather to a whole lot of games.
This was a genre defining game, and most reviewers were just not (monetarily) incentivized to give it the time of day. Those reviews sure didn't age well!
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Offline it’s a hollow shell of an action/adventure game, but online it’s a fun, addictive, and worthwhile entry – a game that’s based on teamwork rather than endless deathmatches.
If you want an online dungeon crawler with a decent atmosphere, nice visuals and repetitive but social and sometimes exciting action, this will do nicely. Don't bother for offline only play.
There is an addictive quality to Monster Hunter as you push your character to new levels and wonderful weaponry. Yet it relies too much on management of items and combinations that take up more time than the quests themselves.
Expanding the environments, fixing the controls and camera, and allowing an easier matchmaking setup in the next game could mean a seriously fun online experience, but right now, what we have can hardly be called even an experience.
Though the graphics are sharp, the world is tiny and the pain-in-the-ass controls make killing monsters a chore.
Screw the Critic Reviews, this game is the best, it might have offered a little but it was the best back then
those idiots would not understand monster hunter, only we hunters does
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PlayStation 2
It's clear that this is the first game in the franchise. That is to say, it had a lot of things to polish that were corrected in later games. For example, most of the weapons are handled in a somewhat clumsy way, the bosses have a somewhat unfair hitbox and some very marked patterns, the movement in general is clumsy and there is no possibility of monsters.
It's certainly more challenging than other games in the series, but that's mostly due to the faults I've mentioned.
Despite all this, the game is quite good, fun and enjoyable.
7.0/10
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I think that this game was amazing! I had so many amazing times with this game, yes the controls are hard to get used to and yes the camera can be slightly frustrating, but the multiplayer is really where Monster Hunter shines, the experience you have hunting with a group of friends to collect and grind over and over for better armor and weapons becomes endless fun!
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PlayStation 2
Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PlayStation 2
None of the weapons are fun to use, they're too weak or too slow. The missions are either fetch quests or fighting damage sponge monsters with no HP bars or fighting monsters with annoying mechanics. There's absolutely 0 story, the hub city consists of 5 buildings. Almost every mechanic is designed to be annoying (pickaxes break after ~5 uses, have to do stupid minigame to cook, animation for everything). The monster designs aren't bad, but most of them are just dinosaurs are altered animals like pigs, and they certainly aren't the main attraction. Reading through the Wikipedia, I understand that the online component played a bigger role when it was new, but I don't see how that could have redeemed this mess.
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PlayStation 2
Summary Monster Hunter offers gamers the challenge of exploring vastly detailed environments confronting mammoth creatures and completing the numerous quests that await them. The game can be enjoyed either single player offline or four player online. In Monster Hunter, the world is a much simpler placefor early civilization. Fantastic creatures ...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PlayStation 2
Initial Release Date: Sep 21, 2004
Developer:
- Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genres:
