Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Hands-On   
We join a hunting party and go monster bashing with a work-in-progress version of Capcom's big-in-Japan action game.
By Justin Calvert, GameSpot                               
Posted Apr 13, 2007 5:01 pm PT
      
While attending Capcom's Spring 2007 Gamer's Day in San Franciscoearlier this week, we had our first opportunity to spend some time withthe upcoming English-language version of Monster Hunter Freedom 2--a10-minute timed demo of it, anyway. Already a huge success in Japan asMonster Hunter Portable 2nd, the action adventure game will see playersbattling against huge creatures, completing quests, and crafting newweapons and armor for themselves using items that they find on theirtravels. The game can be played solo, but is best enjoyed in an ad-hoc"hunting party" of up to four players, which is exactly what we did.
We weren't given any details of the quest that our party wasattempting to complete--assuming that we were even on one--but it wasclear from looking at the sizeable map that we had a lot of ground tocover and at least eight monsters to do battle with. The load timebefore we actually got into the game was painfully long, but the loadsbetween areas were much shorter thanks to a new background-loadingsystem that starts preloading the next environment into memory as youplay through the current one. We also didn't have an opportunity tocustomize our character, although we had 11 different premade ones tochoose from--one for each of the different weapon types. (The originalgame had only seven different weapon types.)
The controls in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 are intuitive andchange depending on whether or not you have your weapon drawn. You canspeed up your hunter's somewhat sluggish movements when walking orclimbing by holding down a sprint button, but doing so takes its tollon your stamina bar, so you can really only use it in short bursts. Youneed to be extra-vigilant with your sprinting when climbing vines uprock faces, because running out of stamina completely will cause you tolose your grip. The third-person camera doesn't always do a great jobof positioning itself as you explore the large environments, but theoption to reposition it directly behind you by tapping the leftshoulder button at any time looks to work reasonably well.
In addition to the large monsters that you'll be tasked withkilling for quests, there are plenty of indigenous creatures for you topractice on as you move around the map. Those that we encounteredweren't particularly aggressive, even after we hit them the first time,though to be fair they didn't get much of a chance to be. Depending onyour choice of weapon, you'll be using the circle and triangle buttonsfor most of your moves during combat. Wielding the giant, slow swordthat we'd opted for (which looked like part of a giant crab's claw),the aforementioned face buttons were used to perform horizontal andvertical attacks, respectively. Pressing both simultaneously performeda special diagonal attack, while the right shoulder button was used toblock.
It's easy to get carried with away with some of the hugeweapons that you'll be wielding in Monster Hunter Freedom 2, but you'llneed to be careful using them in close proximity to other party membersbecause the game's swords and such aren't able to distinguish betweenfriends and foes--that's your job. We're not certain how flexible thegameplay options will be in the finished game, but for the purposes ofthe demo that we were playing we were limited to three lives for theentire party, and any player who died was forced to respawn back at thebeginning of the map.
The finished game will feature more than 250 quests as well as a"treasure hunter" game that can be played either solo or with a friendagainst the clock. Based on what we saw during Capcom's presentation ofthe game, when you're not busy slaughtering monsters or looking fortreasure you might be picking plants, fishing, mining, or hanging outin the all-new Pokke Village. You'll also want to spend any time inbetween quests crafting new gear for yourself, which could mean any ofmore than 700 different weapons or 1,400 different pieces of armor.Those are some big numbers, and they'll only get bigger when Capcomfulfills its promise that additional content and quests will be madeavailable for download postrelease.
We didn't get to spend nearly as much as time as we'd haveliked with Monster Hunter Freedom 2 on this occasion, but we lookforward to bringing you more information on the game as soon as itbecomes available. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 is currently scheduled forrelease in North America and Europe in September.
         -GameSpot

原文地址：http://www.gamespot.com/psp/rpg/monsterhunterportable2nd/news.html?sid=6169093&tag=topslot%3Btitle%3B1
基本上说到的我们都知道了，应该没什么大变化。9月英文版发售。美版看来也只能用AD-HOC模式玩

国内代理的话，用外挂操超级赛亚人  嗲

to LS

这个是MHP2的美版吧

美国粗人不懂欣赏这种细腻技术型的act啊

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原帖由 lionheart007 于 2007-4-27 09:25 发表
美国粗人不懂欣赏这种细腻技术型的act啊

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