Niantic and Capcom team up to create augmented reality Monster Hunter game

Niantic, the corporate behind the favored augmented actuality iPhone sport Pokémon Go, is creating an identical augmented actuality title within the Capcom Monster Hunter franchise. For these unfamiliar with Monster Hunter, it’s a roleplaying sport the place the aim is to group up with others to take down large monsters, harvesting their elements for weapons and armor.

“Monster Hunter Now” is set to launch in September 2023, and it’s a sport that’s being developed by each Niantic and Capcom. Like Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now will ship gamers out in the true world to seek out augmented actuality creatures to battle.

Basic Monster Hunter monsters like Rathalos, Pukei-Pukei, Nice Izuchi, and others might be positioned in actual world areas, and gamers might want to exit on this planet to seek out them. The monsters will be considered in actual world places utilizing the ‌iPhone‌’s digicam, and a number of gamers will be capable of work collectively to defeat them. Gadgets within the sport will permit monsters to be lured to completely different places, to allow them to be found whereas out on a stroll and fought at house.

Elements from the monsters will be capable of be collected to create upgraded weapons, armor, potions, and different equipment. The sport will use the nicely-identified weapons and assault techniques which have been utilized in prior titles, with choices for finishing quests to progress. Hunters could have a companion Palico.

Niantic says that Monster Hunter Now might be designed for “everybody to get pleasure from at their very own tempo,” so the sport ought to enchantment to each Monster Hunter followers and those that are new to the sequence.

Whereas the sport shouldn’t be set to launch till September 2023, Capcom and Niantic are accepting signups for a closed beta test that’s set to start on April 25. Closed beta check entry might be open to roughly 10,000 members, and invited testers might be knowledgeable by way of e mail.