Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Reviews

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is ranked in the 99th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Tom Marks
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne adds loads of impressive monsters and tons of quality-of-life improvements to an already incredible game.

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PC Gamer
Top Critic
82 / 100
Jan 7, 2020

Fails to explore its themes but still delivers the series' most potent monster hunting yet.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019
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Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is an excellent expansion so large that it almost feels like a sequel. It's a better version of a great game.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Sep 5, 2019

An essential addition for any Monster World fan that offers a mountain of genuinely new content that includes some of the game's best monsters.

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GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jan 8, 2020

An essential purchase for any Monster Hunter fan, that also happens to be one of Capcom’s best ever PC ports.

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8.3 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

Iceborne is a hefty expansion that provides a bigger, badder challenge. The fights can be both exhilarating and maddening, making it an experience of intense highs and lows

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter’s newest expansion adds tons of monsters, and comes with a punishing difficulty

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GameSpot
Top Critic
9 / 10
Sep 4, 2019

The Iceborne expansion builds seamlessly upon the thriving ecosystem created by Monster Hunter World to provide a thrilling and fulfilling experience.

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USgamer
Top Critic
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne skimps a bit on introducing totally new monsters, but it's still a large expansion filled with very smart refinements. The campaign alone comes close to matching the scale of the base game, and it wisely ditches some of its more tedious elements. If you played through the original and wanted more, then Iceborne is almost everything you could ask for. It's not a full sequel, but it's pretty darn close.

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Sep 4, 2019

However, that’s just the way expansions work, and in exchange for that mild inconvenience, you get another 20-30 hours of new content with the same high quality that generated critical acclaim for the game when it first released.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

That's what it comes down to, really. These days, there aren't many games I'm willing to surrender hundreds of hours of free time to, but somehow, some way, Monster Hunter found an opening. World laid the groundwork, and now Iceborne is here to carry me through the rest of 2019 and beyond. Mentally, I'm not even ready to start thinking about Capcom's post-launch plans for the expansion.

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9 / 10
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter: World is deservedly Capcom's most successful game to date, and the Iceborne expansion amplifies everything positive about it. More incredible monsters, new lands and a wealth of ways to upgrade your Hunter will have fans in rapture, while new players yet to experience the delights of monster hunting can rest assured that there's never been a better time to join the hunt.

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95 / 100
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne offers a new adventure with more monsters to hunt, new regions to explore, more movements and combat mechanics, a new difficulty rank, and ultimately, a whole mountain of contents to enjoy. A must-have expansion for any Monster Hunter World player.

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10 / 10
Jan 10, 2020

PC players have been rewarded for their patience; Monster Hunter World Iceborne on PC is the definitive version of one of the best games of the last decade.

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9.2 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is more than an expansion: it's a generous gift to its fans (both the seasoned and the fresh ones), one that can last for hundreds of hours of the purest monster-hunting fun.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

Capcom has expanded its universe of monsters in a more than correct way with a cold place full of very high level monsters.

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10 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2019

Iceborne is one of the very best examples of how to produce paid content for a AAA game. It fixes almost all of World's issues, and adds so much to the package. It doesn't feel like an expansion; it feels like a sequel. A fantastic experience.

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Sep 4, 2019

If Monster Hunter: World is a revelation, then Iceborne is something more. It takes everything I loved about the original title, while improving the things that I didn't. Truly, even with some minor shortcomings, if the ideal form of Monster Hunter were to be given shape then this is just about as close as you could get.

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10 / 10.0
Jan 7, 2020

The Iceborne expansion has finally come to Monster Hunter World for PC gamers, bringing a huge roster of new beasties to best and a ton of quality of life improvements. Was it worth the wait? You bet your bottom zenny it was.

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