GameSpot's Iceborne review-in-progress says it "adds more of what set the base game aside from its predecessors without feeling overcrowded, even … Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is a brand new expansion for Monster Hunter: World. A new world awaits, with more powerful monsters, and challenging master rank quests! Monster Hunter: World’s latest expansion never goes easy on the player. Summary: Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is the highly anticipated massive expansion to Monster Hunter: World, the best-selling Capcom title of all time with more than 12 million units shipped worldwide adding to the series total of more than 53 million units to date. New Elements Story The Research Commission Embarks on a New Adventure! Summary: Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is the highly anticipated massive expansion to Monster Hunter: World, the best-selling Capcom title of all time with more than 12 million units shipped worldwide adding to the series total of more than 53 million units to date. From the very start, Iceborne will test veteran hunters with new, difficult beasts to overcome. And while there is a lot to talk about with differences between the core Monster Hunter experience that we all know and that of World, those will be saved for the review for World itself. Iceborne, for perspective, is a large enough expansion to be sold as a separate disc – not something that could just be patched into the base World.