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Monster Hunter Tri | 
| From: Capcom
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 689
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
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Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.1
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MPN: 35011
Model: 35011
UPC: 013388350117
EAN: 0013388350117
ASIN: B002BRYXOO
Publication Date: April 2010
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| • | The ability to save your character to your Wii Remote lets you engage in multiplayer hunts anytime on a friend's console. | | • | In the hunt, you?re never alone. Hunt together with up to 4 players online or take on arena quests with 2-player split-screen action. In single player mode, you even have the ability to hunt with AI-controlled characters named ChaCha. | | • | Monsters have unique and dynamic personalities, abilities and defenses, increasing in complexity as the player progresses. They camouflage themselves to ambush hunters, but will flee or call for help if outmatched. | | • | With ten weapon categories ? including the all-new Switch Axe ? and new armor and weaponry created from the remains of slain monsters, there are almost limitless opportunities for equipment customization. | | • | Play with either the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, with the Classic Controller or Classic Controller Pro and because communication is key in coordinated hunts Monster Hunter Tri supports Wii Speak and text chat. |
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Product Description
Monster Hunter Tri is set in a massive, sublime land where humans and monsters coexist. You play the role of an up-and-coming hunter who must accomplish various quests to achieve glory and help the residents of their village survive. Do you have the courage to hunt the monsters that roam your world? It won't be easy, the monsters are strong and numerous. Yet by hunting together with friends, or braving it solo, there is no monster that cannot be defeated.
Monster Hunter Tri is an action RPG centered around players' expertise with the various weapon sets available in game to take down the plethora of monsters that fill the game world, including underwater environments. Hunters can track monsters, set traps for them and either capture or slay them when they are encountered. In single player mode you can select a hunter of either gender, choose from a variety of weapons classes and set off with a crew of AI companions referred to as ChaCha. When a monster is slain, the hunter can carve off their horns, scales and bones, which can be used to create a huge variety of weapons and armor. These items can be bought or crafted by giving the village blacksmith materials and a fee. With success come upgrades both for you and your ChaCha companion. Fully Customizable Equipment - With ten weapon categories - including the all-new Switch Axe - and new armor and weaponry created from the remains of slain monsters, there are almost limitless opportunities for equipment customization Choice of Controls - Play with either the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, with the Classic Controller or Classic Controller Pro Take Your Character with You - The ability to save your character to your Wii Remote lets you engage in multiplayer hunts anytime on a friend's console
Amazon.com Product Description
Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) is an action role-playing game (RPG) from Capcom. The first iteration of the popular Monster Hunter franchise to make an appearance on the Wii platform, action in it revolves around quest based gameplay built around the hunting and capture of monsters as a means of character development. The game features multiple modes of co-op gameplay—both online and offline—new monsters and weapons classes, multiple controller options and Wii Speak and text chat player communication support. 
Exciting co-op play modes.
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New monsters and weapon classes.
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Classic RPG elements.
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Beautiful game environments.
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Monster Hunter Tri is set in a massive, sublime land where humans and monsters coexist. You play the role of an up-and-coming hunter who must accomplish various quests to achieve glory and help the residents of their village survive. Do you have the courage to hunt the monsters that roam your world? It won’t be easy – the monsters are strong and numerous. Yet by hunting together with friends, or braving it solo, there is no monster that cannot be defeated. Gameplay
Monster Hunter Tri is an action RPG centered around players' expertise with the various weapon sets available in-game to take down the plethora of monsters that fill the gameworld, including underwater environments. Hunters can track monsters, set traps for them and either capture or slay them when they are encountered. In single player mode players can select a hunter of either gender, choose from a variety of weapons classes and set off with a crew of AI companions referred to as ChaCha. When a monster is slain, the hunter can carve off their horns, scales and bones, which can be used to create a huge variety of weapons and armor. These items can be bought or crafted by giving the village blacksmith materials and a fee. With success comes upgrades both for yourself and your ChaCha companion. Co-op Multiplayer
Utilizing the graphics and wireless capabilities made possible by Wii, Monster Hunter Tri allows for a unparalleled co-op gameplay experience, both online and offline. Players can hunt in groups as large as four players online, or two players offline (split-screen). Co-op play is split between two modes: Open-world hunts and Arena mode. Open-world hunts allow players to explore the Monster Hunter world, taking on the creatures they seek wherever they may be found. The caveat is that within this mode players, as well as monsters, can retreat and even escape bad situations regenerating to fight another day. Players who fall in these clashes will respawn nearby, and as long as one of their party remains alive the monster(s) faced will retain the level of damage inflicted upon them before the player's death. Arena mode is similar in most ways to Open-world hunts except that battles take place in set arena settings where there is no retreat for either side, making it a battle to the death. Communication between players in either mode is facilitated via Wii Speak and text chat support. Multiple Controller Support
Monster Hunter Tri features a wide array of controller configurations and options. These include: Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro. Each features in-depth mapping of questing and weapons classes. And finally the Wii Remote allows the ability to save your character’s information directly to it, just as is possible with Miis, so you’re always ready to play at a friend’s house. Key Game Features - Hunt Together - In the hunt, you’re never alone. Hunt together with up to 4 players online or take on arena quests with 2-player split-screen action. In single player mode, you even have the ability to hunt with AI-controlled characters named ChaCha.
- Communicate Online - Because communication is key in coordinated hunts Monster Hunter Tri supports Wii Speak and text chat.
- Monsters with Unique Abilities and Attacks - Monsters have unique and dynamic personalities, abilities and defenses, increasing in complexity as the player progresses. They camouflage themselves to ambush hunters, but will flee or call for help if outmatched.
- Immense Living, Breathing World with Ecosystem - Monsters interact amongst each other in a living breathing ecosystem, complete with food chain. Monsters have stamina, migrate and even attack one another, the strong feeding on the weak.
- New Underwater Maps - For the first time ever in any Monster Hunter game, you will be able explore land and sea and hunt monsters of the deep.
- Fully Customizable Equipment - With ten weapon categories – including the all-new Switch Axe – and new armor and weaponry created from the remains of slain monsters, there are almost limitless opportunities for equipment customization.
- Choice of Controls - Play with either the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, with the Classic Controller or Classic Controller Pro.
- Take Your Character with You - The ability to save your character to your Wii Remote lets you engage in multiplayer hunts anytime on a friend's console.
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 Way better than spected August 25, 2010
SIMON
However be adviced, it is not for amateurs and the cammera sucks, but, it sucks in all the no 2D Capcom games so I was aware of it.
Very Happy August 20, 2010
nadinemalia
I bought this game used and was a bit worried, but it came in awesome condition and has no problems. My daughter is extremely happy and satisfied. (plays it for hours at a time)
OMG BEST GAME EVER! August 7, 2010
Master DC (St. George, UT USA)
I just got this game last week and it is EPICALLY AWESOME! I am a newcomer to the series and I first saw it on the Nintendo Channel (Wii Channel). I was checking to make sure the beloved Metroid Prime Trilogy was still Platinum status and I saw that 2 games were up there! Monster Hunter was the new game, so since I knew that Platinum games are great for everyone, I decided to check it out. Next thing I knew, I was playing the game :). Unfortunately, Mario Galaxy 2 has made it's way up to Platinum and Monster Hunter has been kicked back to Gold status, leaving Metroid and Mario Galaxy 2 the leaders, with Metroid probably hanging by a thread.
Anyways, Monster Hunter Tri is THE BEST game I have EVER, Ever, played. Here are the pros (+) and cons (-).
+Best Graphics
+Best Gameplay
+Most Epic
+Addicting
+Everything else the game has to offer
- ....I can't think of anything wrong XD
So, that concludes that:
1. The game is cool.
2. Buy it and enjoy it.
Thanks for reading!
 Horrible controls, Redundant, tedious, short, and incomplete... July 22, 2010
maskedgamer
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Update* at very bottom!
Purchased the Wii/CCpro combo a pretty much must have to play this game properly. I have about 30+ hours logged into the game and really I'm just scratching the surface still on this monster.
Monster Hunter Tri offers a lot of qualities in mmo likeness. You play as a randomly created character that you can fully customize right down to the voice. The basic plot of the game is that your a hunter and you want to be the best hunter there is. You test your strength by starting out with weak monsters and then working your way up the ladder to the strong ones. You do this by completing quest which allow you to earn points to progress in your rank.
As you slay monsters you will also be rewarded with materials from these monsters that you can take to an armorer to craft new and stronger armor and weapons for you. There's lots of armor sets in the game(I'm not that high so there's only but maybe 10 or so available to me right now)and as you become stronger more will be made available to you.
So that's pretty much it. Take quest...kill monsters... make weapons. That is pretty much the synopsis of the game. So what makes it so popular? It's what you have to do to kill those monsters. That is where the challenging part comes in. Each monster is unique and has it's own behaviors and characteristics that you need to learn in order to defeat them. You also need to figure out what equipment you will need to bring to take down this monster(once you start won't be able to restock items once durring quest).
All of these things I really like about monster hunter. It's fun, it's challenging, and it looks great. Matter of fact you will hear lots of people speaking about how great the game looks. Honestly what they mean is that it looks great for a "Wii" title. If you ask me the game looks about average by today's standards. Yes the environments are nicely detailed and everything is pretty to look at... but that's how 99.9% of games should look like with today's modern technology. When the PS3 was first released I brought a game called HeavenlySword and that games graphics blew me away. Having downgraded to a Wii and knowing just what else is out there... Wii graphics are about a few steps above PS2 and that's just me being honest. So does the game look great? Yes! Is it mind blowing? No!.
Now getting back to the game itself...there are a lot of things I enjoy about the game but why I rate the game at only 3 stars is because one of the biggest flaws of the game and to me it's something that a true 5 star game should have...GREAT CONTROLS!
Monster Hunter Tri has some of the absolute worse controls I have ever played...and yes that includes Sewer Shark and about 80% of the Sega CD games I owned back in the 90's. Monster Hunter Tri's controls are so bad they had to market a new controller with the game just to try and attempt to make it more playable. So let me explain exactly why I took 2 stars off for the controls.
To me there's 2 aspects of Monster Hunter Tri's controls. You have the equipment interface...and then you have your battle interface. The equipment interface's main problem is that it offers too many menu's and functions. Checking your bags and your equipment almost feels like your working on a excel spreadsheet. There's so much going on. It's just too complex because there is too much going on. The Final Fantasy 8 junction system was much more simpler than this and people complained about that as being over complicated. There are just too many options to select and too much that you have to go through just to empty your bags (provided you pick the right one),combine a few items, and equip them properly. I mean it's hit Y for this Z for that A for this B for that L1 for this and R1 to do this and so on. It's a lot more complex than an equipment and info window should ever be. I've seen it done better in other games that don't get as much press has MH3.
Another annoying thing that adds insult to injury is that sometimes you well need to grab your classic controller and pick up your wiimote while hitting all these buttons in sequence and then fling your wii more around to try and register a monster then hit some other buttons to clear your screen all while in the middle of combat! When at that point your probably being attacked by monsters because you had to jump through all those hoops just to add it to your register book. This isn't a required part of the game but still it is a part of the game and you think the developers at capcom would have figured out a simpler way to execute their idea especially in a game when your attacking or being attacked by something of some sort 95% of the time.
But!... all that aside those menu's and features aren't even my true complaint. There's one thing that makes the game fall so short on being all that it could have been. It's the fighting controls and the sheer programming of the game that makes it lose those stars. The only way that I can explain it is that when your in combat with your character it feels like your experiencing a heavy level of lag. All your reactions and movements are very slow considering how aggressive the pace of battle is. Your character pauses after every move and does an animation after every action that can put you in very dangerous spots. Some times you can be halfway across the screen healing or loading your gun and the animation for you healing or loading takes so long and with the added pause it will give a "monster" more than enough time to rush in and attack you. I should say that the monsters/bosses in this game move fluently however your character almost moves like it's turn-based. You can press the B button to evade an attack but your character will not instantly evade. They will pause like a dear in headlights and then roll out the way. You better hope that you leave enough distance for this animation delay to ensure that you do not get hit instead.
For attacks it's even worse. There are several attack moves that you can use. This is a nice part about the game because each weapon has its own characteristics and fighting style BUT... hit or I should say launch an attack you cannot stop your swing until the animation is done. That means that if you strike at an monster and miss (will happens A LOT since they are faster than you)...you are open to attacks until your attack animation stops. Like I said the game feels like Semi turn-based almost like how Final Fantasy 12 was but except you don't have to select a move from a list you just hit a button to launch it.
For me the controls really hold back the game from the "real-time" fighting experience that it could have offered. The game has potential but its very clear to see that the developers needed to spend more time working on the combat/control scheme for the game. The way your character behaves almost makes it feel as though they were designed to be in a completely different game but were adapted to MH3 "hit attack > pause > animation for attack > pause again" and you do this until the monster dies or you die.
5 Stars for the idea of the game -2 stars for the painfully enduring controls
Overall 3/5 rent it to try it if you like it buy it otherwise you might end up with something that is not your cup of tea.
Oh, and there's online too. Not much to talk about it's the same idea as the main game just with 3 other people and group related quest and events. That experience is either great or depressing depending on if you get a friendly group of people or if you get a group of jerks and morons. Level doesn't really matter you can be rank 1 or 100 online play is all about people your grouped with.
***UPDATE***
220hours into the game and I can finally lay down my ending opinion of the game. Monster Hunter Tri feels very incomplete. There's on 5 maps to choose from, only a handful of monsters to fight, and you do it over and over and over and over again. The game provides very limited content. The offline game can be extremely difficult due to awkward controls, and lack of materials that you will have to spend hours "grinding" for to build up your armor and weapons.
I already spoke about the punishing controls of this game, but it does make a difference when you play solo and online. Solo is where the delayed controls stick out most. Since the monsters you fight are targeting you 80-100% of the time. You'll need them more to dodge,run,dive, and attack. Online you have other people to help and it takes away from having to worry about the slow acting controls since others are there to hold aggro and fight with you. The biggest problem I see with this game is that it doesn't offer you much at all. Once you beat the hand full of monsters you realize that your forced to fight them all again, as well as collect different materials from them just to make the same armor you already created before.
In offline mode this happens when your an "elite" hunter or past rank 30. The game doesn't offer you anything new it just shuffles what it already gave you to increase the grind. I think this was a low blow by the developers to mask the lack of content this game has. Monster Hunter Tri is an extremely shallow game. The entire time I've played them game it always gave me the impression that it was rushed. The game feels incomplete and lacking. There's a lot of room for improvement, and a lot of areas where the developers could have "Tri"ed harder to be more creative. Now to get your monies worth there are Event quest that add new "quest" but really its just changing the paint on the walls. You fight the same monsters only with different rules.
Monster Hunter Tri went from being an interesting RPGish adventure game to a hack and slash limited semi-mmo. Meaning that your group isn't massive but you follow the same repetition of grinding and quest to boost your character. This is a game that I would probably recommend now to people who are already familiar with the monster hunter series. If your used to it, and you enjoy this style of games than you'll love it. If your new to MH as I am than I would probably rent it, try it, and see if it's your cup of tea first. It's a very different game from what it first presents itself as.
Not my cup of tea, but good all around. July 21, 2010
David Asta (Walton, NY, US)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game has its pros and cons, but for me, I'm more for gameplay, and not all for graphics. It's got good enough gameplay, but it's a bit confusing to the point where I'd rather play something else.
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