Monster Hunter World gets considerably bigger today with Iceborne, a $40 expansion that adds a frigid new area, dozens of new monsters, and much harder missions. It doesn’t do much to change the formula, but it’s a very welcome burst of new content and a great reason to return to a game that had gotten a little stale.
Expansions that add new monsters and a higher tier of difficulty, previously known as G-rank, are a tradition for the series. But with previous Monster Hunter games, which were never released on systems where hefty downloadable expansions would really have been practical, Capcom put out entirely new games to accommodate the extra content and difficulty. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, for example, was called Monster Hunter 4G in…