Monster Hunter Freedom Unite coming to Europe

  • Posted October 9th, 2008 at 07:59 EDT by
  • 5 Comments

According to Eurogamer, Capcom plans to bring its stupendously profitable PlayStation Portable hit Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd G to Europe - and it will be one of the first games to offer online Ad Hoc multiplayer when hooked up to a PlayStation 3.

Capcom will publish the game as Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, possibly because Europeans associate the word "unite" with Manchester United and football teams in general. That's our line, anyway, and we're sticking by it.

Despite being fundamentally a stand-alone expansion (albeit a pretty weighty one) to a PSP game itself derived almost entirely from a PlayStation 2 title, MHF2G has racked up multiple millions of unit sales since its Japanese launch in March. The PSP has done rather well out of this, becoming Japan's best-selling console for the first half of 2008.

Western gamers have proven less keen on the series thus far, mainly on account of its overwhelmingly intricate gameplay and steep time requirements. The absence of infrastructure multiplayer for the PSP games is another sore point, which makes the new indirect online functionality a welcome prospect indeed: the latter is scheduled for release in Japan on October 30, and should hopefully migrate overseas not long after. Expect more technical specifics as we get them.

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite comes out in spring 2009.

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  1. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 8:10am BST - October 9th, 2008
    • 1

    Haven't heard of this game might keep an eye open for this one.

  2. bman0123 | bman0123

    • 8:13am BST - October 9th, 2008
    • 2

    I'll probably just wait for monster hunter 3 for the wii...

  3. Ghostm

    • 9:47am BST - October 9th, 2008
    • 3

    To bad Monster Hunter 3 is not on the PS3 anymore. They would've sold millions in Asia, NA & Europe. I don't know how Sony allow themselves to lose this game. This was the exact thing that the PS3 needed.

  4. knowbrainer23

    • 5:24pm BST - October 9th, 2008
    • 4

    Yeah. PS3 needs to have Monster Hunter.

  5. BenY0shir0

    • 5:05am BST - October 21st, 2008
    • 5

    This really angers me how they just stereotype Americans as people with low attention spans. I've clocked 300+ plus hours in Freedom 2 alone, not to mention Freedom and of course MH for PS2. I've even bought 3 of my friends PSPs AND a copy of MHF2 to play with me. (Anyone who plays Monster Hunter knows about The Four Horns.)

    Now don't get me wrong, Europe has been swindled out of some good games and longer release dates, and deserves such a great game on their shores, but just because it won't turn millions in profit doesn't mean you shouldn't send it to a country that has been faithful to the company (CAPCOM) for many many years because of games like Resident Evil and Street Fighter. Because of CAPCOM's latest actions towards Sony CAPCOM followers I have lost my faith in their ways and believe they are only out to make money and not make their gaming followers happy.

    It just makes my stomach turn to know that that's how most companies are nowadays; just looking to make cash...but I guess it's not all that bad, I suppose I can order MHFU (lol, that's almost funny) and actually be able to read it instead of relearning Japanese to be able to fulll enjoy the next installment of the greatest multiplayer game for the PSP period.

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