In my first few hours with Monster Hunter Wilds, I fought against a gigantic spider in waters that were as red as blood and dodged the onslaught of a twisting dragon amid a desert storm, complete with powerful strikes of lightning terrorizing the ground around me. I went up against sandworms and giant apes and a poisonous bug that could inflate itself while causing a cascade of explosions in the ground below. Each battle felt monumental — and the scale only increased the more I played.This focus on spectacle is what sets Wilds apart. The game is the follow-up to Monster Hunter World, which shook up the series with a larger, more open world and catapulted it from Japanese phenomenon to global blockbuster. World went on to become Capcom’s bestselling game ever, no small feat for the company behind Resident Evil and Street Fighter. Instead of changing things up once again, Wilds ups the ante and makes its monster battles feel bigger than ever.The MonHun games are all built around a specific gameplay cycle. You prepare for a hunt by getting your gear in order, you head out and study your target, and then you spend a long time slowly whittling down the health of a giant monster …Read the full story at The Verge.