Capcom developing Monster Hunter Online MMO

By Michael Dunaway, News Editor Posted: April 18, 2013

Capcom in conjunction with Tencent, has announced their intentions to publish an MMO based on Capcom's extremely popular Monster Hunter franchise. The announcement came earlier today at a conference held in Beijing.

The MMO is powered by Crytek's CryEngine 3, the same engine used to power Warface and Farcry 3 and is set to begin beta testing in June. Unfortunately the MMO will only be published -for now- in China with no official word on whether it will make it to the western market.

The MMO is said to "reproduce the screen style, combat feel, mission modes and classic monster boss battles" found in other Monster Hunter titles. A user by the name of Doppelgangerf detailed more features on the PC Gamer forums including; drivable vehicles on both land and water (which you can see at the end of the trailer), destructible environments which can then be used by a monster as a weapon against the hunters, time and weather affecting the in-game world and persistent visible damage to monsters (weapons leave scars and body parts break off).

You can read his full post here.

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Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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dirzon 9 years ago

sir can u update me to english version pleasee thank you i be waiting sir

Paul 10 years ago

is there English version ???

kemete 10 years ago

how can i download this ? im only 13 yrs. old -_-

Name (Required) 10 years ago

yea i cant wait for this been a Monster hunter fan since the first monster hunter for ps2 came out =D

Zyromkiru 10 years ago

So... The West needs to make a monster hunter rip off as well so we get the real deal afterwards just like china?

Michael Jackson 10 years ago

I hope this game mechanic will be like normal Monster Hunter series... Can't wait :D

Jellopy 10 years ago

This is such a tease, I hope it comes out here. First PSO2 gets delayed indefinitely then another capcom mh mmo tease.

Microwaved 10 years ago

This probably won't be released outside of Japan for at least 5 years after release. They still never translated or published the original Monster Hunter online from 2007...

BioMechaNicaL 10 years ago

Capcom should know that they would get A SH`IT TON more players if they release this on the west. Im desperate on this game, I went to japan learned Japanese, bought a psp, bought every monster hunter game, fly back to Canada then play it all.

I also bought the games in the nintendo wii/ wii U, the ones in the 3ds, but i havent bought the iphone versions. and the xbox 360 version of frontier.

Rib 11 years ago

We'll never see this in the US we have to accept it, and if we ever get it, it would be years from now, so, for now play other MMOS such as TERA online (great graphics, combat system, and it's a little bit like monster hunter hunter in terms of gameplay).

dagudman 11 years ago

WE NEED THIS!

Noa3 11 years ago

Shut up and take my money!

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Kimwer 11 years ago

Capcom doing a f2p, OHHHHH NO TY.

ExHuman 11 years ago

[1:23] Giant Beaver !
epic

Mors 11 years ago

Well.. we did have a Monster Hunter MMO for the west (MHF clone)..
but they closed down in january..
Was quite boring since you got to the lvl cap quite easily,
and farming wasnt all that hard in a good group.

Hope that a original will be way better.

Mystika 11 years ago

I have a feeling it won't come to the West, and only to those regions that got Monster Hunter Frontier originally (so Japan, China and I think Korea as well). But...I could be wrong.

saruder 11 years ago

I knew this day would come!

mattmanrx99 11 years ago

* crytek

mattmanrx99 11 years ago

I face palmed when i read far cry 3 powered by crytec

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anip 11 years ago

Still waiting for the actual English release announcement... since last time when MH frontier online was announced... I was overly excited only to find out they never had the intention to port it to English at all... and many fan-patches were incomplete or hard to play.

nexthazard 11 years ago

Nice :) but Capcom has a way of screwing things for us westerners :I so i wait for more news.....

WTF 11 years ago

you gotta be shitting me

Flevalt 11 years ago

Tencent is at it again. Not rich enough yet I see.

Vince 11 years ago

Bring MH to the US, wtf is wrong with eastern developers.

Bic Boi 11 years ago

Hunter Blade kinda beat them to the punch on this on the PC platform.

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Snowwww 11 years ago

this looks so good...i dont think that capcom makes this for the western comunity though

lol MH 11 years ago

there is a monster hunter mmo named MH frontier this is just suppose to replace that

Moonfanng 11 years ago

Did i just hear a monster hunter f2p mmo O:O

HOLLAOLAOAL 11 years ago

this just made me cry *sniff*

azoth 11 years ago

so assuming it goes to china i doubt itll come here we were screwed out of frontier i mean I will hope it does. But capcoms patterns for releasing a legit online playable monster hunter game has been a pain.

Name (Required) 11 years ago

i gave up trying chinese games,all click-accept mission-recive reward till now,boooooring

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FPS2RPG 11 years ago

MOUNTED

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