The embargo for Monster Hunter Wilds reviews has lifted ahead of its February 27 release, and the consensus is pretty positive. Wilds is within striking distance of a 90% score on both Metacritic and Open Critic, though there are rumblings that it may have been overly streamlined compared to prior games in the series—that was PC Gamer reviewer Lincoln Carpenter's primary critique in his otherwise very positive Monster Hunter Wilds review. Here's a general spread of scores:
- Metacritic: 88% (PC), "Universal acclaim."
- OpenCritic: 89%
- PC Gamer (Hey, that's us!): 85%, "Hitting dinosaurs with hammers never felt so good."
- TechRadar: 4.5/5, "A mighty evolution that ushers in a new era for the Monster Hunter series."
- VGC: 5/5, "The sequel to Capcom's best-selling game is mightier in every way."
- IGN: 8/10, "Continues to smooth off the rougher corners of the series in smart ways, making for some extremely fun fights but also lacking any real challenge."
- Gamespot: 8/10, "It has issues, but Monster Hunter Wilds iterates on a winning formula with another captivating collection of monsters to slay"
- Eurogamer: 4/5, "The most exhilarating and refined Monster Hunter yet, even if its attempts to balance the old and new don't always quite coalesce in its ongoing quest to please all audiences."
- Kotaku: "Beautiful, refined, and more familiar than ever"
- Rock Paper Shotgun: "Will devour your time if it gets its claws in. But an overbearing story might make you impatient to ride straight to the moreish endgame."
