Wild Hearts is a fresh take on Monster Hunter with a dash of Fortnite
by Andrew Webster from The Verge - All Posts on (#68Y7P)
Image: EA About a year ago, Fortnite introduced a new way to play, with a mode that eschewed its building gameplay for something more like a regular shooter. Now that style of building has appeared in the most unlikely of places: Wild Hearts, a new take on the hunting genre that Monster Hunter has firmly established.
Wild Hearts - which is developed by Dynasty Warriors studio Omega Force and published by EA - is, at its core, a riff on Monster Hunter World. Like that game, it takes place in a vast wilderness that's not an open world, per se, but rather a series of connected spaces. In this case, they're large islands, each with its own ecosystem and, naturally, different creatures to hunt and battle. There's also a sprawling human city where you...