Augmented-reality and location-based recreation developer Niantic is ready to accomplice with gaming large Capcom on a brand new cellular recreation based mostly on their long-running Monster Hunter Franchise.
Introduced with a teaser trailer, Monster Hunter Now could be a brand new title that appears set to observe 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 supposed) Resident Evil when it comes to gross sales. The teaser trailer reveals off primarily third-person gameplay similar to the core collection entries and represents an attention-grabbing new spin on Niantic’s catalogue.
Gamers can join a closed beta right here.
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 attraction of the Monster Hunter collection with Niantic’s improvement know-how, with options that permit gamers to crew 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. Slightly than utilising the participant’s digicam from a first-person perspective, the third-person hack & slash gameplay that Monster Hunter is thought for continues to be very a lot built-in into the title. Though travelling to real-world areas to seek out monsters continues to be the main focus, gamers can seemingly anticipate one thing that isn’t an excessive amount of of a departure from earlier titles within the collection.
Capcom and Niantic teaming up definitely represents a brand new and thrilling partnership, but additionally represents a maturing of Niantic’s improvement. Whereas Niantic can boast of the cellular megahit Pokémon Go in its catalogue, it’s additionally had quite a few cancelled titles in newer occasions akin to 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 fashion. With related if not the identical gameplay simply with a special theme. Nevertheless, Monster Hunter seems to be to be an evolution of this, a “better of each worlds” method that retains issues acquainted however with Niantic’s personal private stamp on it, once more much 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. With the ability to carry 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.