Monster Hunter

About Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter is an adventure video game for PlayStation 2. The game was developed and published by Capcom. Monster Hunter was released in North America on September 21, 2004. It was later remade and expanded in Monster Hunter G, which was released in Japan and was brought to North America and Europe as Monster Hunter Freedom for the PlayStation Portable. The sequel, Monster Hunter 2, was also released only in Japan on February 16 in 2006, and then brought to North America as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 on August 28, 2007. Again, this "portable upgrade" brought some new things with it that the original game did not have.

Monster Hunter 3 was announced for the Playstation 3 two years ago and was recently announced as a Wii exclusive title Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G. The latter is said to feature new mission modes as well as new monsters and items. This information was revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2007.

A manga titled Monster Hunter Orage is being published jointly by Kodansha and Capcom from May 2008. The author of the manga is Hiro Mashima.