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Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne
Let your hunting instinct take you further than ever! "Iceborne" is a massive expansion that picks up after the ending of Monster Hunter: World and opens up the new "master rank!" New quests, monsters, weapons, armor, and story await to take your hunting to the next level.
Details
- Released
- September 6, 2019
- Developer
- Capcom
- Genres
- Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure
- Publisher
- Capcom
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Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
In a time where CAPCOM is releasing hit after hit, it seems almost typical that Iceborne is as good as it is. It has a noticeable amount of effort and charm put into its story and characters when they could’ve gotten away with putting in almost none of it, has improved on an already excellent combat system with a new layer of depth, and adds a plethora of monsters, both new and old, that are sure to please fans of all kinds. It’s a brilliant expansion that is a must-play for anyone who’s a fan of the original game, and for anyone who hasn’t dipped their toes into what the series has to offer. ...
Iceborne is as good as expansions get. It presents welcome tweaks to the original formula and monsters that will challenge even the toughest of hunters. If only more of the campaign explored this.
“Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is one of the best games of the year, expansion or not.”
Despite launching several months later, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne on PC is a grand experience, full of awesome monsters to hunt, worthwhile weapons to grind and more depth to the combat. Even with performance issues and quirks unique to the series, Iceborne is simply essential for every Monster Hunter fan.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne doesn’t solve any of Monster Hunter World‘s underlying issues, such as its insistence on splitting up players for short bouts when playing in co-op. The expansion content itself also isn’t going to make those who weren’t too enamoured with the game originally change their minds, and it’s not ideal for those who found their skills pushed to the limit by the base game’s most fiercest foes. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is for devout hunters seeking yet more challenging encounters, and for those it is a must-have. Bolstering the game’s repertoire of monsters and tw...
Iceborne, the ambitious expansion to the acclaimed Monster Hunter World is out now but is it worth your while? Let's find out.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne takes the already stellar combat system and refines it further while also giving players plenty of great new monsters to take down, slice apart, and then put together into gear to hunt their next target.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne makes important quality of life improvements and gives fans of the game a ton of new content to master. While it would have been nice to have less repeat monsters, the expansion is still massive in scope and has more content than some full-fledged video game sequels do. Iceborne offers Monster Hunter World players their toughest challenges yet, and it should keep fans plenty busy until Capcom does decide to finally give fans a proper sequel.
A thrilling new adventure, but it's not just the world that's chilling.
Iceborne is a little bit more of everything that makes Monster Hunter so enjoyable. The pace drags at times, but that's easy to forgive amid dozens of hours of cool new monsters to slay.
Still, Iceborne is a remarkable achievement. I’m slapping the Bestest Best sticker on it, and not just to make up for the fact that I erroneously didn’t slap it on the base game. Together, they form a standout work that excels at everything it sets out to do, with the exception of storytelling. Iceborne adds even more joyful oddness to what is, perhaps, the most idiosyncratic and whimsical of recent graphical benchmark blockbusters. It boasts the sort of production values that seem antithetical to risk taking, while remaining a deceptively vast and information-rich game, that places an easy th...
Outside of combat, there’s an entirely new snowy hub area (named Seliana) with its own features in addition to all the necessary shops and mission boards. Your hunter receives a new two-story room with walls, floors, furniture, and decorations that can all be changed and customized, which makes it feel much comfier than the main Asteran room. Seliana’s steamworks minigame is a great way to get lots of useful items, as well as yet another adorable Felyne animation.