Iceborne is exactly what Monster Hunter World needed www.theverge.com

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.
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, for example, was called Monster Hunter 4G in Japan, and it came out sometime after vanilla Monster Hunter 4, which wasn’t released at all in the West.
“To be honest, it still doesn’t feel like it’s real.” - Monster Hunter World executive director Kaname Fujioka on the game’s successThat isn’t a complaint.
Monster Hunter World is obviously a huge technical leap forward, but its menagerie is still much less diverse than the previous games.
Monster Hunter World was a pretty great template to work with, and now it’s deeper, broader, and far more challenging.