A new trailer from Monster Hunter's official YouTube channel has revealed some of the new monsters, locales, and story content inMonster Hunter Rise's upcoming Sunbreak expansion. The trailer also confirms the return of a notorious foe from 2019's Monster Hunter World: Iceborne that will arrive in the near future.
Monster Hunter Rise is the latest entry in Capcom's extensive series of team-based action RPGs that has been ongoing since 2004. Starting with the original PS2 game Monster Hunter, the series has centered around online co-op gameplay where players work together to defeat powerful monsters using equipment crafted from defeated enemies. While Monster Hunter games feature offline single-player gameplay, the best rewards and most difficult monsters are found through online participation. The franchise hosts an enormous fanbase and has had spinoffs in various media including an anime series, manga, card game, and even aMonster Hunterfeature film starring Resident Evil's Milla Jovovich.
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The new trailer for Sunbreak is an action-packed three-minute-long showcase of the upcoming expansion's roster of deadly creatures, mostly composed of in-game footage of players fighting the monsters throughout Sunbreak's various locales in Elgado. Sunken ruins, icy mountain cliffsides, gloomy forests, and volcanic pits are a few of the environments shown in the trailer, highlighting the expansion's impressive visual variety. Many of the monsters on display are particularly fantasy-oriented, breathing fire or shooting jets of brightly colored energy beams. Creature designs range from the typical dinosaur-like monsters to icy beasts, large insectoid monsters, and several
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