Augmented-reality and location-based sport developer Niantic is ready to associate with gaming large Capcom on a brand new cellular sport based mostly on their long-running Monster Hunter Franchise.
Introduced with a teaser trailer, Monster Hunter Now’s a brand new title that appears set to comply with Niantic’s present catalogue of AR cellular video games. The sport is predicated on Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise, which is second solely to monster hit (pun meant) Resident Evil by way of gross sales. The teaser trailer reveals off primarily third-person gameplay similar to the core sequence entries and represents an attention-grabbing new spin on Niantic’s catalogue.
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Of their official launch for the sport, Capcom commented on their wishes for cellular. “The sport goals to ship a brand new expertise that blends the enchantment of the Monster Hunter sequence with Niantic’s growth expertise, with options that enable gamers to workforce up with others for hunts, or to hunt monsters that had been encountered whereas the app was closed later of their spare time.”
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Monster Hunter Now differs barely from Niantic’s different AR fare. Reasonably than utilising the participant’s digicam from a first-person perspective, the third-person hack & slash gameplay that Monster Hunter is understood for remains to be very a lot built-in into the title. Though travelling to real-world areas to search out monsters remains to be the main focus, gamers can seemingly count on one thing that isn’t an excessive amount of of a departure from earlier titles within the sequence.
Capcom and Niantic teaming up actually represents a brand new and thrilling partnership, but additionally represents a maturing of Niantic’s growth. Whereas Niantic can boast of the cellular megahit Pokémon Go in its catalogue, it’s additionally had quite a lot of cancelled titles in newer instances resembling Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Catan: World Explorers since. Related makes an attempt to capitalise on the identical AR gameplay together with The Witcher: Monster Slayer have additionally been equally rocky for even main builders like CD Projekt RED and subsidiary Spokko.
This might partially be attributed to those titles not translating in addition to Pokémon did to the AR gameplay type. With related if not the identical gameplay simply with a distinct theme. Nonetheless, Monster Hunter seems to be to be an evolution of this, a “better of each worlds” strategy that retains issues acquainted however with Niantic’s personal private stamp on it, once more just like one other spin-off title, Pikmin Bloom.
So far as potential success goes, Monster Hunter already has a big multiplayer neighborhood because of the title’s intensive co-op options. Having the ability to deliver the title to cellular units could show simply as profitable as Niantic’s flagship enterprise with Pokémon – solely this time the monsters are a lot, far more monstrous.
