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this game looks awesome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

the movies are not always the best way to tell if a game is going to be good, but I have a feeling from watching this game it will be very close. the graphics do not look overkill, but the gameplay I have seen more than makes up for it. the customization looks very expansive, and the armor looks like you would earn it from killing the monsters, or from what i can tell, are mostly going to be huge dragons. this game is definately first on my wish list.

Could be outstanding

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: July 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

monster hunter, as stupid as the name sounds, looks quite impressive. The plots simple-your a hunter trying to make a living by hunting numerous monsters. What makes it so interesting is the gameplay mechanics and the online capabilities. There can be up to four people at once, each hunting for a certain monster. The game looks as if it will focus on cooperative strategy over all out combat. You'll have to work with your team in order to achieve victory and defeat the monster. Setting traps and using tools are what you'll probably have to focus on. In a trailer i saw, a lone hunter was being chased by a giant dragon-like creature. He lured the monster into a snare, and the others suddenly dropped in and began to hack away at the entangled creature. Very impressive. The game also looks beautiful. Lush jungle areas, barren deserts, and swampy forests were filled with a great amount of detail. Overall, the game looks great, and i hope to see it on dial-up when it comes out.

Get into the PS2 Saga

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game of the year, period. The graphics are fantastic, missions are varied, ranging not only from monster hunting, but also foraging items and even trying to steal dragon eggs!! (Its harder then hunting a dragon, trust me..) This game is surely addictive and there is nothing in X-Box that could remotely compare with this game. (Another reason why you should not buy X-Box) This game offers great fun for the family for sure, yes there is blood, but nothing excessive nor anything just to add to the gore of the game. (Blood is just a indicator if you have killed the monster or just knocked it out for a while..) various mini quests such as fishing a specific fish for a villager, roasting meat for the village festival... you name it, Monster Hunter is great fun. I cannot wait for more people to get the game and play on line as monsters are getting harder to hunt down and missions are getting more complicated. Honstly, I hvae yet to hunt down a dragon as it is near impossible without team work. Definately the best game to play with friends online, consider the upside of PS2 game online, no annoying players coming to ruin your fun. Way to go Capcom!

Monster Hunter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: September 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Stupid name but looks and sounds awesome.When it comes out I'm going to buy it.

Game of the Year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In the most primal sense Monster Hunter is an awesome tale in which you ravage dragons and monsters to save the good of mankind while exploring vast landscapes- yet Monster Hunter is not your average RPG, it is not even your average game period. This 3rd person action from Capcom is a genre defying experience of which we have not seen the likes of since the birth of the Final Fantasy titles. However, Monster Hunter takes the torch from the FFXI's and Everquest's with a stunning package of graphics, gameplay, sound, and most importantly features. I was amazed at the lengths these Resident Evil creators went to in constructing a lush and wondrous environment with freedom to develop character customization and ability to devise your own weapons from random objects or the carcass of your kill. Monster Hunter is a gamers dream yet plays easy enough to get newbies hooked. The real draw and added dynamic to an already captivating game is the online capability. Firstly the option is free unlike FFXI and truly changes the game and the quests. The online option can bring your party up to 4 players and you can mix and match between blademasters and gunners to best fit your mission, which makes a huge difference on some outings. Merely having the other players to interact with and communicate via USB keyboard adds an exciting dimension and makes a task like stealing a dragons egg and balancing it back to the village a lot easier. I was anticipating the 9/21 release since the surprise unveiling at eg3 and this one lives up to the hype. Monster Hunter is my vote for game of the year because it is the total package and one play will make you see this too.

Best Online I have Played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: September 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Monster Hunter Rules! Forget about the name, it is more prehistoric and D&D than ghosts & goblins but whatever you call it, call it one of the best games to come out in a while. What I really love about Monster Hunter is its boldness into the world of online gaming. I have never seen a game so ambitious in using new technology to raise the level of play, think Phantasy Star but with cooler weapons and lusher landscapes. I can easily play this for hours on end just even creating my own characters or devising weapons from dragon body parts. The graphics are fine, solid if not spectacular but the gameplay is excellent and I get immersed in the world of MH. I highly recommend this one, don't rent it- buy it, you will end up saving $$ unlike me who found out the hard way.

Monster Hunter is my new favorite game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: October 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting so long for good new rpg like this. Monster Hunter is so much fun. Especially when you play it online. The graphics are great and its my new favorite game. If you like Final Fantasy or DnD, you'll love this game. The online features rock!

Offline is fun too.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: October 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm only to give the game four stars because that's what I think it deserves in terms of playing offline(village). Everything looks great, character creation is diverse, the music is beautiful and kind of wierd at the same time, and ambient noises are-i think-the most redeeming quality since no other game developer has found time to match MH. Aside from that, expect alternative, albeit tight gameplay and interesting "side-activities" like fishing, roasting meat on a spit, and combining items to make different kinds of herbs and bait, as well as any variation of the game's weapons you want. Sadly, I have neither a Network Adapter nor a USB Keyboard, however Christmas is nearby so I hope to get an even more amazing game experience come December when I go online.

Bunch of Bull

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: October 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The style of this game is completely outdated. It can get very monotonus making the game very boring. I've been playing these types of games since the nes and would know wether or not it is any good. You go and get missions in a town than go out to the same monotonus playing fields over and over again. And some of the missions are just completely stupid. The broadband feature is also a bunch of bull because I have alot of friends that wanted to get this game but didn't because it wasn't for dial-up. Plus the game seems to make it near impossible to beat the game if you don't have broadband and utilize the online feature.

Overall: If you don't have broadband don't get this game. And if you do decide you might want the game rent it first just to be sure that the game isn't to repatative for you. And after all that if you decide to get it good for you.

Horrible, ugly, wretched control scheme ruins game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: October 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Monster Hunter was a game I had been excited about for a while. Sad really... It could have been excellent. Oh well. First the good.
The whole item collection system is well-implemented and could have been a lot of fun. What, with the need to collect the ingredients for better weapons and armor? Sounds cool to me.
Another thing the game has going for it is it's multi-solution approach to hunting. Later on with some of the tougher monsters it's not as if you can just walk up and start hacking away. You need to set traps, like barrell bombs, poisoned meat, and pit traps. You also might want to consider some ranged weaponry.
The whole time limit on quests was annoying though. Theres no real way you can just go out in the wilderness and wander around collecting and hunting with no purpose. You have to have a quest to leave town, and you usually only have an hour or so to complete it. So not much time for side work there.
There is no real story line, but for this kind of game it didn't seem to be lacking for it.
What really kills this game, and I mean KILLS it is the absolutely ridiculous controls that make it NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to satisfactorily control the camera to SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You control movement with the left analog, while you attack with the right analog...
What about the shoulder buttons you say? Can't you swing the camera with them? No. Not really. You can use L1 to make the camera jump directly behind you, but then since the camera is static in this game (it just stays in the position you leave it in) if you're jumping around in combat what may be a good angle one second will get you killed the next. Especially in some areas where the camera decides to hide in the trees so you CAN'T SEE ANYTHING that's going on action-wise.
You can use the control pad to swing the camera around, but that means you can't move yourself and the camera at the same time. Unless you want to take your right hand and put it on the left side in order to control both pad and stick simultaneously... Of course you won't be able to attack then.
Oh, and if you're thinking' "I'll just change the controls to what I want them to be": Well Capcom's just given you the finger because there is no way to adjust this worthless control scheme.
Things wouldn't be nearly so bad if the game gave you some way of locking on to enemies, but that too is missing from this game.
I really wanted to like this one too. Hugely disappointing.

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