I got monster hunter tri on my wii. I understand if some find it to be boring, but it's a whole different game and cannot even be compared to PS. While ps is more combat orientated, monster hunter puts more emphasis on hunting, collecting and that kind of stuff, which is really slow paced shit, but I enjoyed for a couple of months.
The big monster battles are the only epic battles in the games(especially when doing them online), little enemies that attack you on the field are just there to annoy or collect items from and can easily be avoided.
No I don't think PS looks like monster hunter in the slightest and agree with Aki-at.