Guild Wars Review

Guild Wars unique game play has people coming back for more. I say this because just a few months ago, I said to my self. “Self, lets brush the dust off this game, and reinstall it.” I reinstalled Guild Wars at the time, waiting on Rifts Head start. Hehe. Head start was the closed BETA version of Rift just before it went live.

Just for the record, although Guild Wars is an older game. 2005 was the copyright of the game, around the time WoW went live, and people flocked to WoW. The graphics IMO are still nicer then Blizzard Entertainments game known as World of Warcraft and its colorful more cartoony graphics then Guild Wars more realalistic version.

Guild Wars is probly one of the best solo friendly MMORPG’s still to this day. It is Solo friendly, do to the fact that you can hire several Henchmen at once depending on the quest instance you want to run, when doing PvE such as questing. You also have the power to control these henchmen. By telling them what to do, where to go, be deffensive, or offensive. You can command these henchmen to do certain task at any giving time, all while they are fighting the same mobs you are.

The only PvP I remember is, Guild vs Guild Tournament battles which generaly fall into one of these catagories:

Annihilation: is to survive until all other teams had been eliminated.

Capture the Relic: two teams compete to collect enemy relics within a time period. Capture the Enemy’s relic and bring it to your ghostly hero.

King of the Hill:The object is to be the team in control of an alter, when the clock runs out, and your ghostly hero must claim this alter, using a “claim” spell.

Guild Wars has very limited customazation which lowers my rate some. level caps is 20 for the main game and a few expansions, then NcSoft(the developers) created a couple of other expansions, which raised the level caps some.

Guild Wars, from what I remembered did have an in game event, around Christmas, with presents you can open, Decorations in main towns, and snow, to new quest hubs, and goodies that where unlocked. I do not recall any other holidays Guild Wars celebrated. But the Christmas Holiday was a deffinant.

There are a lot of neat things in Guild Wars. A few of them are; The ability to mix dyes togeather to custom color your armor and weapons(yes weapons)Some rare dyes like Black, and white are very expensive to purchase with game currency from vendors, although some vendors do sell these two colors, in the array of several other colors, you are better off buying these colors from other players. They do drop as creature loot, but it is extremely rare.

Able to create, and color custom guild cloaks with the dyes in game, and a massive number of set designs stored in a data base to choose from for your guilds coat of arms design.

Another neat thing in Guild Wars is Epic skills, you learn per character, you can learn many epic skills, but you are only allowed to have one epic skill per character on your hot bar. these Skills come from rare boss mobs that you had killed. To aquire their skill, you use one of your default skills to cyphon that epic skill from the bosses corpse.

Guild Wars also has Epic weapons, you can aquire from just about any boss mob, but the drop ratio of the weapons are extremely low, which opens the door for farmming that particular boss for its weapon, that you will be able to equip on your character, henchmen, and even hero’s.

Also, not only does Guild Wars allow you to Hire NPC Henchmen at any time, if you finish certain quest chains, you will be able to unlock Hero NPC’s that act as henchmen, but have better spells, sirvive longer, and hit harder then the regular henchmen do, and have an inventory to help you carry things.

You also have the abilty to equip weapons, armor and spells(skills) on the hero, and Henchmen NPC’s. I have a few Hero class NPC’s that are equipped with several Epic weapons. Some of my heros are even equipped with epic spells that I had unlocked on some of my endevors.

I could only imagine, with all of these new BETA games poping up day by day, How will Guild Wars II ever compete with a lot of these great games? I bet do to this information given and with all of these other games coming out, Guild Wars II will be top notch.

Cheers NcSoft for this, although old, great game. Looking forward to Guild Wars II.

I loved it but there really aren’t very many people who play this game anymore. 5/6 people per district. Everyone I see is just getting on to reminisce the good days or to try and fill out their HoM for GW2.

So just save your money and keep the support for GW2 at GuildWars2.com

I believe GW2 is going to truly dominate the MMORPG world when it releases.

the gear and crafting systems were interesting and while I never felt like I had crafted anything (I just traded the items for the piece of gear I wanted) I really liked being able to dye my armour any way I liked.

I would probably have stayed playing GW if it wasn’t for the lack of PvE end-game. so you spend maybe months completing the campaigns and what do you get for it? The chance to do all the missions again in “hardmode”. I couldn’t believe it at first, and looked everywhere vainly trying to find something else. Apart from the challenges (which are fun the first time you do them) there was nothing.

With such a lack of end-game PvE, I look to PvP to fulfil my needs. Make a customisable PvP character and go straight into PvP? Absolutely brilliant! The casual PvP is great, but even try and get into Heroes Ascent and you’ll be smacked down as a noob. I have never met such an elitist community in my entire mmo career. In order to get anywhere, you have to have a certain rank, and in order to get this rank, you have to PvP in this section. This means you either have to find a guild to help you through, or get really lucky with a random group.

The insistance on cookie cutter builds was unbelievable, and if you didn’t have the cookie cutter build, you were a complete noob. To combat this, the developers regularly nurfed and buffed various skills to kill off a particular build. The players would then discover what worked and that became the next cookie cutter build. And so the cycle went on.

Despite this, GW PvP was refreshing in the fact that everyone had access to the same gear, so it was up to skill and teamwork to decide who won in a fight. This made the game much more enjoyable to play than other games which focused mostly on gear.

In summary, a good game with nice graphics and a well thought out system, but lacking in community spirit. But despite this, for a F2P mmorpg, it’s still the best you can have.

sound 8/10 very very good effects but sometimes a bit annoying music is amazing

community 10/10 Gw has a great community some trolls but every game has that problem

pvp 9/10 almost the best part of the game i give it a 9 because i’m not a hardcore pvper

story 10/10 it has a certain feel to it very good story

overall 9/10

Guild Wars, this is only my third week playing, but I can tell you from the day I bought it, I loved it!

Guild Wars has exciting action packed gameplay, awesome quests, fun storyline, amazing pvp, and so on.

And for what? A little payment of MAXIMUM 50 dollars, depending on what you get. Prices varie!

I’ve acquired Guild Wars Prophecies with the expansion of Eye of the North, which prepares you for Guild Wars 2! More races, more classes, more action, more fun!

Basically, Guild Wars is a MUST have game!
An amazing Christmas Present to any gamer out there!

I guarantee satisfaction!

If you like dungeons and fast-paced, easy!
If you don’t find a party of real people, NPCs that are actually strong and helpful can join your party and you can quest out in dungeons and zones to beat many monsters and accomplish quests!

The fast-paced action is amazing! Killing is fast and efficient, but strategy is needed at a point!

Also, your HP and MP is restored gradually even when fighting!
No need for potions to restore that! It restores on its own!

Plus, NPCs can help you by healing and so on while you’re questing in dungeons, zones, etc.

The classes are amazing.

Here’s some of my ratings:

Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Storyline: 10/10
PvP: 10/10 *
PvE: 10/10
Action: 10/10

AND IT’S AFFORDABLE!

*PvP: Note, there are Guild vs. Guild, Player vs. Player and even dungeon instances! AT ANY TIME!
There is PvP even at level 1!
You can choose to make a PvP only Character or a Role playing one!

Guild Wars deserves 10000000…/10!

PLAY IT! IT’S A MUST!

3th the graphics suck, only the water looks cool

The storyline is pretty decent though fairly short and linear. Its quite good for what it is, but once completed your only options are to do it again on another character, or PvP, which is largely fruitless without a guild, and so again you are forced into being social. The PvP itself is very well balanced and focuses very largely on skill and teamwork more than anything else, but is simply not my cup of tea.

In the end Guild Wars is a very good game, but in my opinion not worth it if PvP is not your thing. If your curious the PvE mode alone may be worth your money, but keep in mind that while playing online is free, there are a whole lot of expansions to buy if you want the full experience.

Guild Wars strongest point and weakest point is it’s story. While it’s story is great and vary well done it’s vary linear compared to the traditional MMO, while some people might prefer this way choice is good and it’s vary hard to find in this game. Side quest are hidden all over the place but none of them really seem new or different than anything that is in other MMOs. Even with the various side quest you’ll cruse though the main story line and quite a few side quest(if you choose to do them)pretty quick which pretty much gets you to the level 20 cap in the process.

Another thing I didn’t really like about Guild Wars was how armor was setup. Normally you’d get armor from shops, craft it yourself or get it from monster drops. In Guild Wars there the easiest and I believe the best way to get armor is to collect the materials and pay the NPC to make it. Monsters do not drop armor which is kinda frustrating as collecting materials for armor isn’t as fun as getting a rare drop. Thankfully they do drop weapons and shields!

The world of Guild Wars is huge and it will take you at least 50 hours to see everything. Thankfully your can jump to any city you’ve been too making travailing around the huge world a lot easier.

My biggest grip about the game and this is more apparent now more than ever is lack of players for missions. Missions where setup to be played in a team, it’s almost impossible to beat later missions without a team, they have henchmen but they are far from strong enough to help you beat later mission and usually you end up stuck for a couple days because no other players are around to help you. It’s becoming a bigger and bigger problem and I hope NCsoft comes up with something to fix it.

One of Guild Wars strongest points is PvP, I’m not much of a PvP person but Guild Wars PvP drew me in. In Guild Wars your allowed to either create a PvE player that starts at level 1 for you to progress through the story line or a PvP character that starts at level 20 and can only be used for PvP.(once you get far enough your PvE character can be used in PvP)This is a great feature as it lets you jump into PvP right away without having to spend hours and hours leveling up your character. PvP can be played against a team of NPCs, in randomly selected teams or in teams of your choosing. If your in a Guild you can also(with the guild leaders permission) do Guild vs Guild matches. As you win matches your PvP character gets points in which he can use to unlock new skills.

Overall Guild Wars is one of the best games on the market it’s in t steady decline right now because of the up incoming Guild Wars 2 but at it’s peak it was easily one of the best MMO’s ever. Despite some bugs, various missing features(no jumpinging or swimming, lack of armor drops) Guild Wars still gets a 9 out of 10.

SAME
attacking system
some quests

WoW Pros:
Higher level cap
Easier to level
Simpler
Bigger World
More races
More classes
Has a more relaxed feel
(Pro?) Easy to get addicted to

GW Pros:
Story!
Very good community
better graphics
Missions
Good RolePlaying
More complicated but after a while gets instinctive
Quests are made easy by the arrow that points u in the rite direction
No subscription
Not too immersive or life sucking

WoW cons
Suckish community
No overall story, really
takes longer to get to the awesome stuff
will suck the money and life out of u
u have to pay game money for skills

GW Cons
Level cap of 20 🙁
tough to level after a while
smaller world than WoW
not as addicting

Well, I probably missed a bunch of stuff, but thats the gist. I personally prefer GW, but whatev, some ppl like 2 blow their $$$ on WoW. Anyways, this a review on GW, not WoW, so now I will start the review.

GW

Graphics: 10/10 Wow, these graphics are awesome. The best thing about them is that they can play on lower computers and still look cool.

Interface: 9/10 Almost perfect. Just a few small confusions at first, but then it was all smooth sailing.

Gameplay: 10/10 Could it get any more intuitive? WASD, space or click to attack enemies and then use skills with hotkeys. Nice and simple.

Sound: 9/10 Pretty nice, some weird sound effects in certain places.

Overall feel: 10/10 More formal than WoW, but I like it. More realistic.

Value: 10/10 It”s agreat game all around. If you”ve got thirty bucks, this is a great way to spend it that will last for hundreds of hours.

Nightfall:
This took all Guild Wars players by storm releasing the new Paragon class. This campaign is packed with a heap of missions and quests. Guild Wars:Nightfall is where most Guild Wars players have moved to and stayed more active on than any other campaign. The Paragon is similar to a spearman, but can be very supportive. Another good thing about the Paragon is that all of its skills are in Nightfall so its a great character to start off with. In this Anet did well to keep players loving PVE with there great quests and new heroes to help you out with quests and in a few missions they can come handy to. Of course Nightfall was the second longest campaign but cant be finished without a party of real players on most missions but still is never too hard and boring for a player to get tired and that is why they did well to keep players going. The skills are great in this game to with a heap of skills more then factions which is useful and can make make great builds especially when combined with prophecies skills.

EoTN:
This is the expansion of Guild Wars which obviously you never buy first. In the expansion they released a heap of an amount of heroes in which 2 you get after completing the quest your start off with which these heroes are name Ogden Stone healer and Vekk. This wasn”t a big expansion but wasn”t easy to finish and took time and to me definitely needed a party of players for most missions. This was one of the best expansions of an MMORPG I”ve played with great new elite skills in which my favorite was Ursan were you take an aspect of a bear. This is great fun with the new heroes which most are cute or look funny and a very strong with the right skills like most heroes and theres a hero of every single class which is great but some require other campaigns. There are also some great accessories that are used as armor which look like the coolest thing especially when combined with some good matching armors. This campaign is also connected to GW2 which is still under construction but will of course be great with some cool features like jump.

Great game recommend you get them all and has outstanding graphics in which all campaigns have which a great range of 10 different classes to suit you which are all great to use and powerful in there own way. Don”t regret until you try it.

Graphics: The graphics are very good and they make the environment stand out. Old machines can run the game which is always awesome. 9/10

Community: The community is absolutely fantastic, it is very warm welcoming. Guilds are just simply fantastic and you make a lot of friends. I did find some of those idiot players. 9/10

Difficulty: Same as WoW. Easy to get started, simple layout so you can figure everything out by your self and soloing is very easy. 10/10

Overall: 9/10

your given a choice to persue an class of your choice and mix it up with one other class as well. after defeating one campain you can transferr you character to another campain and continue. this makes the game incredbly interesting with years worth of gameplay and an awsome pvp system and welcoming community. there is almost no grind after lvl 20 (since it only goes to level 20) and you can expect a very competetive pvp with festavals put on every 3 months or so. the biggest festeval is probbly the dragon festeval where player from all accross Guild wars gathering together in the streets to drink, dance and play games.

this game is not perfect however 🙁 it does have old graphics and the music can be repetetive. the PVE element of the game can almost never be played solo and many of the high level weapons you see require hours of raiding. and questing. if you don’t have the patience i would probbly give this game a miss.

overall this game is very enjoyable and innovative with some clever Interface gadgets (such as the ability to draw on the minimap for other player in your team to see). it has Years of fun gameplay but can get repetetive if played too much. (witch im sure you will do ;3 )

8/10 not free, but worth it!

Graphics 9/10: The graphics are amazing for an online game. The scenery is beautiful enough that I found myself manually traveling from town to town just to see it all. Character animations tended to be a bit weird and jerky, but otherwise pretty decent.

Sound 10/10: Guild Wars music is probably some of the best music I have heard in an MMO in a long while, though it tended to get a bit repetitive on some areas. The sound effects, and voice acting were good enough that I didn”t have to constantly turn my speakers off to save my auditory organs.

One thing I would like to stress is that Guild Wars is not a “WoW killer”. This game is in no way similar to WoW. Comparing the two is like trying to compare apples with oranges. They are both fruits, but they have completely different qualities about them that make them unique. I do not believe that WoW is better than Guild Wars, nor that Guild Wars is better than WoW, simply because they really can”t be compared. If you like open-world, group oriented killing sprees, then WoW is probably your best bet. But if you prefer a more centered, personalized gameplay, with more story than exploration, then Guild Wars will be your best bet.

Get this game.

Now.

Gameplay: 10/10 Very understandable. thanks to the tutorials and tip during Pre-Searing these controls are very clear.

Community: 9/10 OK, Pre searing is full of geeky teenage boys with lots of acne being Female Elementalists dancing in their underwear. but when you get to the higher level bits, the community is more mature.

Combat system: 9/10 “oh its just point and click” no its not. if you dont use your skills you”re dead. if you dont have a good build you”re dead. if you try and take on things way higher levels than you with just any old team you”re dead. its not simple. an elite mission can take about an hour to get everyone prepared.

PVP: 9/10 i dont like pvp generally. BUT the pvp system is good thanks to factions. Although in alliance battles you get the odd prick insulting you.. then he loses and ragequits, but a lot of the time pvp is honorable. Leavers and Ragequitters get the “Dishonorable” Hex which means they cant fight in an arena battle for 10 minutes. That eliminates the impatient people and people who are desperate to win.

PVE: 10/10 Great! Good story, different regions, races, and steps your character takes. important steps mostly include Ascension and getting your armor infused.

Overall: 10/10 as i have said before. THE BEST GAME EVER, let nobody tell you otherwise. Mops the floor with WoW

But after i came acrost a small guild i had a blast, me and 10 other guys had a blast helping each other beat the game and farm items. The “Guild Hall” system is an amazing idea. your “Guild Hall” is basicly a place for you to go and hang out or PvP a little with your Guildies. Only you and your guildies can go there (Guests and allied Guilds can go too if i remember correctly).

Over all its an excelent game, although you will not see me there anymore because they updated it too much for my poor little laptop to handle.

WOW have come out with 3 expansion and GW with 4 and i can see that every expension GW tried to come up with something cool. in faction introduce end game item,etc. NF introduce tresure chest and hero and EOTN introduce hero books and title

WOW? um… all i see is ok most of u are lv 60 make new expansion and raise up cap to 70 and new expansion raise lv cap to 80 and then 90………at the end 200 lvl?

GW have over 700 skills compare to WOW i think only 100 skills which most of them are passive and only a few skills being used while the rest are useless.

this is totally great game with very active GMs and Admins

Payment – You pay once for the Access Key, and you can play forever for free from there. There are currently three games and an expansion, you have to buy each to play them all.

PvE – There are quests, which is your general “go here, kill that, protect this, follow him” story. Then there”s missions, which is a more epic version of quests.

Community – The community is what you make. You can join a guild and only talk to those people in it, or you can converse with everyone. If there is someone you don”t like, you can ignore them, meaning you can”t see what they say. You can -ALWAYS- get a group. ALWAYS. Real People, or not. You can use real people in a mission, which is fun, but it takes longer because you have to wait for them. Ooooorrr, you can use NPC characters like Henchman or Heroes. It”s a little harder, because no AI is perfect, but you get the job done.

Graphics – The graphics are among the best I”ve seen for low-budget computers.

Combat – There are infinite combinations of Skill Builds! You play how -you- want.

combat(7/10):
gets boring after awhile since everyone either makes you run a build or shuns you which isnt bad but some places scare off the new players because of this making it so hard to find a random group, as well as you not being able to solo anything without a proper invincible build which is nice because it forces players to either suck with henchmen and heroes(unless your really good at micromanagement) or join other players which most of the time is really better than hench/hero build

community (5/10):
the community could be a bit nicer to new players basically theres always that person in every group that goes around spamming omg noob when really hes a even bigger noob 8)

things to do (5/10):
not much here you either become a pvper or a pver theres no minigames no side professions such as fishing and you cant even solo as efficently as a group can unless you get really good with invicible builds which ruins the fun .> not to much to do when youve been playing for 1 or more year
-monsters are really overpowered if you try to go out by yourself without anyone including hench/heroes youll generally die by the smallest groups unless you bring a strong build even with a strong build you still cannot solo most things
-a lot of things will really get your attention that are actually worthless other than for show example mini pets are a big waste of money although their cool they do nothing =)
also the 1k max armor are the same as the 15k armor their just duller and less appealing so dont spend all your money like i did on 3 sets of 15k armor lol

my views of this game:
this game can be very nice or very dull depending on your guild… personally i like smaller guilds since i know everyone in it =)…. also this game gets very dull after awhile especially since everywhere you go there is a specific build everyone looks for even if you manage to get the build they expect everyone to know how to use it making this game really stressful for new players

That’s what renting is for, genius. You rent before you buy and if you don’t like it you save the money. Apparently you live under a rock and don’t even know what ”renting” is, am I right?

As for your community hating..

THIS IS THE INTERNET, WHAT GOOD COMMUNITY DO YOU EXPECT TO FIND?

Also, every game has lag. It’s an INEVITABILITY.

I have very rarely had any problem finding people to quest with. GW is unique, especially with the additions of Nightfall and Eye of the North, in that you have have a large number of customizable heroes, as well as non-customizable henchmen that can accompany you. You can quite literally beat the game in normal mode (and nearly all of hard mode) without ever really having to group with another human. This gives you some flexibility and freedom from having to sit around looking for a party when you want to play. At the same time however, that means that you have to look for others that you could quest with reliably. You can join pick up groups (though that does leave you at the mercy of a random person’s skills or lack thereof), or just join any sizable guild (they are everywhere), and ask in the alliance chat (which will likely have hundreds of members) if someone will help you in a particular area. Most people who are not doing something at that moment will be willing to help. If you don’t like the focus of that guild, and it does too much pve/pvp and not enough of the other, then just find another one. They are easy to change, and cost you nothing.

The community is not “Awful! Unfriendly, unhelpful, rude…” etc. There are people that can be, like in any game, but to generalize like that is nonsense. Most people chat more within their guild and alliance than in the public chat, simply because those are the people that they will most readily be questing with, pvping, trusting not to be scammed by, etc. You do have to make SOME effort to establish human relationships. It is GUILD Wars.

This person obviously has very little experience in pvp. There are numerous arenas and styles of pvp, not just the Random Arena 4v4. The Random Arena is not considered serious pvp. It is something there to get a quick pvp fix, because generally there is no wait time, and you don’t have to bother finding a group, as they are put together automatically. Team Arenas is an organized 4v4 match, where each team sets up before the match, and then faces off against others in a mini-ladder contest. Guild vs. Guild combat sets 8 people in one guild against 8 people in another guild, where one group storms the other one’s guild hall and tries to kill their guild lord and the other team. It is great fighting with your friends and closer guildmates. There are also 12 vs 12 Alliance Battles where you capture shrine points while fighting the other side, 1 v 1 Hero Battles, where it is you and your hero npcs that you control versus another players’. There are also ladder tournaments with 8v8. Essentially, gamergal has obviously had no real experience playing this game.

There is lag sometimes at peak hours, but it is scattered, rather than constant, like in Perfect World.

Community:
Awful! Unfriendly, unhelpful, rude. People constantly bug you to join their guild. Filled with 10 year old kids or those with that mind-
set.

Arena for pvp :
Group of 4 player team . You have no choice of players on your team. If team’s not a good class mix or low level players…. your team loses.

Lag:
Yes there’s lag sometimes.

let me continue a little more on pvp

pvp rating 9.5
almost flawless with over 1k skills and u can make any combo with 8 skill inculding 1 skill elite in the 8 skills makes ur build very interesting. ur build are more or less balance for example if u are playing protection and self heal tank u cant do dmg much. if u go aggressive u wont be able to heal urself. HOH is perfect to have 3 grp fighting each other. having 1-1 guild is just showing how skilled u are but have 3grps makes u use more of ur brain on how to make 2 of them lose to u when u are outnumbered.

in PVP

RA aka random arena

this is an arena for beginner to start with when u dont have friends playing with u or u are new. u did not require to have friend but the system will port u to random team of 4 what makes this fun is its random =) and what doesnt make this fun is probably someone below who said pvp in gw is terrible is in ur team

TA aka team arena

team arena is totally the same with RA except u have to grp before going in making u build a grp combo.

HA aka hero ascent

unlike TA or RA this is a 8 player pvp this pvp wining 5 times will enable u to join HOH

HOH hall of hero

same as HA except u have 3 teams inside this makes u to have 2 opponent instead of usual 1
winning in HOH will earn u a athority to open a HOH chest which have rare items inside it

Guild vs Guild

battle for only guild member vs other guild member of 8 vs 8
winning in this will allow u to raise ur guild rating

AB or alliance battle

flag capture base pvp ( like battle field) of 12 vs 12

killing count as 1 point and capturing counts as 2 point every few sec ( cant remember how many sec) team that reaches 500 point first won the point can be use to own a town for many benefits

Lag – 9/10: Met nearly no lag through my gaming experience. a few times I was subject to spontaneous ‘lagathons’, but it passed. Also, expect lag in heavily populated cities.

Audio – 8/10: On some places it’s epic, while on others, it’s monotonous after a while. Great atmospheric audio, but you’ll be turning on your iPod in a few occasions. The sound is pretty quiet, so expect to screw up your volume bar to full. Monster sounds are, well, pretty normal, not epic or dull.

Gameplay – 9.5/10: The explorable world is huge, considering you can’t climb, swim, jump, or otherwise move on the vertical axis. Grinding is moderate to minimal, as you’ll be kept busy with the delicious buffet of quests. As to keep you from grinding on the same weak level 0 monster all the time, you’ll only gain exp from monsters 5 levels below you or stronger. Once you reach the low-low cap of level 20 though, it all changes. I gained levels 1-15 pretty fluidly, and got my way to level 20 by repeatedly doing a very fun mission, all in a little more than a week. Oops. HUGE mistake doing that even before you made it through half the story. The 5 level exp limit gets pretty harsh in my situation, because even though I managed very far in the story after a few attempts, all I could do hunting was two things: get owned heroically by a horde of level 28 monsters, or stomp a bunch of weak level 11 monsters. My exp bar stood practically static. Once in while I would find a good few level 16 monsters, though. So, game gets dull after the level cap. Instancing is probably the best feature; since my problem in most MMOs is getting kill-stealed all the time, and the monster populations in those MMOs are so low one could imagine it as one of the nightmares of the leader of WWF.

Community – 6/10: The game-wide community is mediocre at best, and I’ve seen a lot of ‘shouters’ in my sessions on GW. They shout random and mostly offensive things with caps on, and the others respond back with more insults. Quite a few players I know are verrrrrrrrry inactive, while others take GW as seriously as real life. The guild community is great, friendly and helpful, but I’ve yet to see a guild with more than 6 players active at a time.

PvP – 3/10: Now we come to the dirty, low-down part of the review. The system for PvP is very innovative, with separate characters, customizable weapons and armour, etc. But the system is also the most noob-unfriendly thing I’ve ever seen. every single time I enter the PvP, I get owned by a bunch of elites that kill my party every 5 seconds. Terrible PvP.

Pricing and Future Development – 9/10: The games are dirt cheap, having my much beloved pay-once-and-never-again system, and, living in Sweden, I spent about $150 for the 3 campaigns. I lament the fact that the franchise ends here and development on GW2 has begun, but joining so early in the game, I didn’t expect to understand why either. I appraise that there is no foreseeable end in the franchise, and the pricing system is going to continue.

OVERALL – 8.7/10: A very good game, except for PvP. It’s a definite keeper.

Community 89.5965%
Graphics 96.565%
Customer Service 30.5968%
Sound 76.5855%

Overall 69.85685%

and lets not forget that Wow’s are is merely as big as(or maybe a bit bigger) GW:Prophecies+Eye of the North. SO 10/10 for this to-notch MMORPG.

(The rank is 1-10 rank which for each rank you gain the skill gets better, the skill works only in PvE so if you like PvP its still great!)

8/10

1 point lost for the skill Ursan Blessing
1 point lost for not a single game in the universe is gooe enough to get a 10, a game just can”t be perfect. Look at Crysis, great graphics yeah. But stupid on every other aspect!

//pOintstiveise

Cons:
-Level cap of 20 makes game feel shorter. Not as much in Prophecies which takes about half the game to hit 20. But definitely in Factions and Nightfall which is about 1/4 and 1/3 respectively.
-No trade skills so the only way to earn money is the farm and quest
-Private areas are nice, but can become lonely over time. Anyone who has played WoW understands the fun of meeting up with someone in the wilderness and questing.

Overall: This game is extremely good and the Pros outweigh the Cons. If the Cons turn you off too much, just wait for Guild Wars 2 which will have persistent areas, a higher level cap, and jumping and swimming.

Guild System: The game was built around guilds (hence the name) the system for joining and designing your own guilds is flawless. When you have acquired enough in game gold you can purchase a guild hall and fill it with vendors creating a guild town for your members. From the guild hall you can access Guild vs Guild Wars, 1 on 1 PvP battles, Hero Battles, or just meet with your friends to start a party for adventuring. 10/10

Farming: Once you have achieved level 20, you can begin to hone your skills and change your secondary profession in an attempt to create a build that might allow you to venture either alone or in a small group into the Guild Wars Universe. Smaller groups yield better drop results for many items. These items can then be sold in game to other players or vendors. 10/10

Armor & Equipment: Or how you will be spending all that gold you”ve been farming. In order to craft armor you must find in game armor crafters or collectors to purchase these items from. At level 20 you will want max armor which costs 1000 gold per piece or 5000 gold for most classes, and you must supply the crafter with the raw materials necessary to craft it. There is also elite versions of most armor which look visually superior and cost 15K per piece or 75K and require rare crafting material. 10/10

Cost vs subscription games: If you paid 40.00 for your game and you have to pay 10.00 a month subscription fee by the end of 1 year you have paid 160.00 if you purchase all 3 worlds and the expansion for guild wars you also spend about that much so if you play the game for over a year there is more value in GW than some other subscription game. 10/10

Personally i’d say your arent supposed to tell people whats bad and whats good before you have played it or a while.

-You can”t jump nor travel the whole map. I mean as in going up high terrain.

-The level cap is 20. I wish it could be something like 50 or more, but then again it makes everyone take part of the game.

-Death penalty. If you die, you gain 15% death penalty. This mean if you die and get ressurected by an ally or by a ressurection stone you lose 15% of your health and energy. The only remedy for this is going to a town/outpost, completing quest”s in the explorable area or killing monsters. It does get quite annoying (I got really annoyed) when you die and get a penalty, but once to get to about level 13-15 you die less and get used to it. Every time you die, the death penalty goes up. So if you die like three times in the explorable area, you get a 45% death penalty. This penalty stops at 60%, so you will get no more than that. This is really bad because it makes you very weak if you are fighting a boss.

-Resurection Signet. This is a skill that every proffesion has. It can resurect allies if they are dead. But what I hate about it is that you can only use it once, unless you get a morale boost. By getting a morale boost you kill something big eg; Afflicted Ritualist. I don”t know if there are other way”s, so if there are correct me please.

-There is only ONE race. Human. It would be nice to atleast have Dwarves and Elves.

There are load”s more things that I will not go into detail in. Overall, if your parents don”t let you play World of Warcraft or City of Heroes or what ever that has monthly fees. Then I recomend you getting Guild Wars, it”s a nice, mature game. The game is really not addicting, as for it”s not as good as World of Warcraft in my opinion. The game does get boring after a while, and if you decide not to play it any more, get the other campaigns. In my opinion, get Guild Wars Factions as I think is the best one. It has the professions/classes Assain”s and Ritualist that I think is a good combo together. I rate this game, a 7 – Good game, room for improvement.

– the whole game is instanced so it does not play like a MMORPG (creators actually call it a CORPG)
– character is stuck to the ground. you can’t jump or move freely throughout the maps (ie can’t climb terrain etc.)
– bank space is incredibly limited.
– names pile up on characters head making it very difficult to find someone in a large group.
– no open world pvp. all the pvp is structured. ie you can’t just walk up and attack someone.
– community is filled with rude elitists.

if you’re looking for a true mmorpg then skip this game, you’ll be dissapointed.
if rather you’re looking for a diablo 2 esque game then you’ll enjoy GW.

Cons:Limited but the community can tend to be rude to other players but you can make good friends. Sometimes the missions in the game can be time consuming and may not give people with limited play time a chance to finish them without dedicating a little more time. The economy is rather confusing when you first start but you can learn it quickly if you’re willing to ask questons.

Definitly worth a try if you’ve got the money for the game. You can buy the first Guild Wars and enjoy it as much as owning all the expansions as well if you;re on a limited budget.

Flaws: Only one flaw comes to mind, which is the low level cap. However, this forces you to try and use your character more wisely, as later on in the game the enemies you face will be lvl 24-32, making Elite skills a must-have.

Overall: Despite the low level cap, the graphics, storyline, gameplay and PvP options more than compensate, giving this game a rating of 10 out 10.

Guild Wars is incredible, because its not really an RPG. Well, it is, but its more like Kingdom Hearts mixed with WOW and Spiderman 2, all of which you only pay 30 dollars for and then never again if you want.

The one thing no one ever seems to mention is that this game has CUT SCENES. Actual cut scenes with your party in them, that’s why the character customization is limited, and it really isnt even that. The graphics are beautiful, the storyline brilliant, the action riviting. And when you finish the game, its not over, you just run around doing quests and getting more skills.

Okay, past this post if anyone mentions the level 20 cap, they havent read what Im about to say. Levels mean absolutely nothing in this game other than what you can defeat. This is not a grinding game, you do a handful of quests and mission, which have cutscenes, which is the only thing you have to center on, you level up as a result not by hard work. Sure, you can run around killing things, but if thats all you want do not play this game. This game has a point, and that is teaming up with people around you and completeing a mission. If that’s not for you, go to WOW, go to Maple Story, heck, even go to crappy ol’ Runescape, but for people who love games that accomplish a goal, get Guild Wars.

Other than character development the Guild is the most essential theme of Guild Wars. Joining the Guild maybe hard at first if you”re really new, but if you get lucky someone may recruit you into their guild. Joining the Guild maybe easy, but finding the good, decent, cooperating guild is hard. Most guild”s have problems these days, it”s usually players within the Guild being inactive for couple weeks, being on and off sporadically, and people not helping you because they are concern with their own affairs. If you participate Guild vs Guild or AB you”ll have lots of fun if you win now and then. If you keep losing you”ll easily lose hope and leave the Guild. So joining the right guild is important to your entertainment or else if you join a losing guild then you won”t have any fun.

Owning a Guild is a different story. I was a leader of my Guild for a while until I had to hand it to another friend of mine. The problem of the guild is that many members are usually inactive for a few days. It may not sound so bad but when you actually run a Guild it gets pretty annoying. You NEED people in order to run a guild. Officers from my experience are most likely to be on everyday only if you promote the RIGHT ONES. Getting people into your guild will be hard. Most people who join will be newbs since your Guild is new, no veterans or experienced players would want to join. It”s not rare but it”s hard to get experienced players. Since most people are in a guild already recruiting will be hard. However the good side of having a Guild maybe community if your manage to make a Good guild. Having your guild participate Alliance Battle and Guild vs Guild can be pretty fun. The problem with this is that winning Guild vs Guild can be pretty hard if your Guild is inexperienced and new. To be owned by another guild is something not to stress about but noobs take is so seriously that doing another Guild vs Guild is going to be hard since you need people People in your guild will mostly do PVE or Player vs Environment on their own. Because of this it”s hard to manage the guild without the cooperation of your people. If you do not have cooperation you do not have a good guild, that”s all I have to say about being leader of the Guild.

Problems of Guild wars seem to weigh more than the pros. The marketing or buying armors and weapons can be pretty annoying and frustrating. Unlike Diablo II and other rpg games you to go to a crafter and have weapons and armors crafted. You need materials and rare materials in order to have the weapons and armors crafted. Buying materials or finding them, including rare materials can be hard. Rare materials cost A LOT, buying enough of them to get a set of armors is a ridiculous amount of price. You have to understand that in Guild Wars accumulating gold is not all too easy like in Diablo II. If you sell your items to an NPC merchant they buy it for a really cheap price which is not a very good profit. Selling them to players is better but it takes times since players are humans and they have to decide whether they want your products or not.

The variety of weapons and armors are very low compare to other RPG games i”d played. Finding a special weapons with magic is hard, at least from my experience. You won”t be finding a cool looking weapon lying on a ground next to a corpse of a giant because it”s rare. You will find good weapons now and then but usually they”re not always what you want. You also will NEVER find armors lying on a ground you have to buy them.

Doing missions and quest in a party is fun if you have friend with you rather than henchmen who are incapable of doing certain things that a normal player would do. Playing with other players is fun but when you do a quest and mission they can log off right in the middle of it. That can occur many times, and when it happens it makes the mission and quest more difficult to achieve. The reward for quests are fair in terms of experiene but poor in terms of money. usually the highest reward for gold would be 500 gold. If you play the expansion GWEN (Guild Wards Eye of the North) the reward there can be 1000 gold. Quests are fun when you first play them but they get redundant in the end. There”s not enough creativity to it.

In conclusion of this very long essay of GW, I say Guild wars is a good and decent game. The graphic is good, the game play is good, and basically everything is good but not great or bad. It”s hard to control a guild, it”s extremely inconvenient to to buy weapons and armors, and being with a party can be a pain in the A$$ when people leave right in the middle of a mission. The Game has both major and minor flaws, and it really can”t be fixed. So if you”re asking me, “So do you recommend this game?” I would say it really depends, me personally I liked this game but I eventually got bored of it. If you know what i”m talking about even though you never played this game then don”t waste your money.

2. Nightfall, has a great story, all of the core professions plus Dervish (nobody cares about paragon). Prophecies is fun too, but Factions is WAY too short and easy.

3. You can make guilds and alliances (groups of guilds)

4. Read this list and find your favorite type of character, the profession ideal for you will be next to it.

DD: Mesmer, Elementalist, Dervish
Tank: Warrior
Ranged Attacks: Ranger
Healer: Monk
Evil magic/health stealing: Necromancer

2nd Question – Which game do you recomend, i buy? Guild Wars Prophecies, Nightfall or Factions?

3rd Question – Can you only make guilds? Or can you make anything else??

4th Question – Whats the best Primary Profession?

Guild Wars Lacks:
Varied gameplay, all you do is kill things (though it still manages to look different)
hmmm… i cant think of anything else,
though the unvaried gameplay is a great flaw, because after awhile, it will just seem like your doing the same things, over and over again(especially when you”ve already played dozens of other MMO”s).

Graphics – 10

Weapons and armour – 10 (Thousands of items available to players)

Sounds – 8 (Just magic effects and stuff)

PVP – 10

General Gameplay – 10

Overall rating – 10!

Magic is detailed. Combat is detailed. The guild system is VERY detailed. Hell, you can even personalize your own armor.

If you like free to play games, this is one you HAVE TO OWN. It’s tons better than all free to play MMOs.

I recommend to EVERYBODY!

if you like fps but not rpgs, this game will definitely be the silver bullet.

for those of you who like WoW… you might as well play runescape cuse its free and theres just as much fun (not much at all to be exact) as WoW.

no joke: great graphics, sounds, intense pve + pvp. Its a game like no other *Angels Sing*

While some pay-to-play games like WoW are paper-thin on their story, Guild Wars has a deep, involving story that I simply love.

An EXCELLENT addition to this game is that whenever you enter a combat area, it generates a private copy of the world for you and your party. This is awesome because there’s no more competition for the big enemy that drops the new uber sword you’ve been wanting.

The guild system is also AMAZING, each guild gets a guild hall, which is like a base, that their members can access to hang out, meet up for quests, and much more. A variety of NPCs can be added the guild halls to make them a sort of convenience store. I’m told that guild vs. guild combat is very fun, but I haven’t been in a big enough guild to do it yet (I guess that’s the downside of preferring small, friendly guilds).

The PVP system is also great, allowing players to create PVP-only characters that start out at level 20 (level cap). Oh, and dont worry about the level cap being so low. It takes quite a while to level up.

And finally we come to the games only real flaw: The limited equipment. The game is teeming with weapons of all sorts of customizations, but certain classes suffer from a very limited selection of armor. Elementalist is a shining example of this. It is VERY frequent that you will see a Lvl20 Elementalist wearing an armor set that is easily obtained at level 7-8. While some classes have a TON of armor, others don’t. This is irritating for some players becase most people think that their L337 Lvl20 character should have really awesome armor. But there is an easy fix to this issue: buy an expansion pack. Each expansion adds a heap of new gear to most classes.

So my opinion is that this is BY FAR the best free MMORPG on the market. Try for yourself, what have you got to lose? It’s only $30.

You need to buy it. don’t waste your life on runescape and maplestory and habbo hotel and coke studios. play this game. it is a masterpeice worth 1 trillion $$$’s

Gameplay- 9
IS awesome. Battling takes a long time to get bored of. New skill, quests. The story is wonderful, though not complete. (Though will be soon when the first expansion comes out)
New monsters at every new area. These provide a new challenge and a new type of build.

PvP – 10
Is prob what guild wars is most famous for. It is great. You can battle others any time in random arenas. Team arenas are basically randoms but you can make teams. Halls is a big scale battle with 8v8 (though as been 6v6, programers are trying to decide which is better)
Guild battles are 8v8 and are great fun.

Sound+Music-9
Music is nice. Suits the enviroment well. Can get sick of it though after 6 months or so of playing…

Community-8
It’s very nice, there are a few chilren who spam. And local big towns will have WTS WTS everywhere. But people are usally nice. Guilds are the peek of the community. Its what makes it fun and soicable. not only can you be in a guild but a alliance to. (which doesnt really effect you unless you have factions)

Overall – 9
Alot of things great about this game. WoW fans or fans of grinding and becoming the top by pure power might not like this. Its more about smarts and setting yoru skills right. There isn’t any LeeT items. Your build and skills is the only Leet thing (you can have 8 skills)
Other then that this game will laast you about 6 months, then you might feel a lil bored so getting the next chapter is a good option

Sound-8-good- Iv’e seen better in the time i have been gaming but it’s still a thriller to hear, hehe, they need to work on the spell sounds.

Community-NICE-Impressed here with the community, its not hard to get exepted into a guild You just need to make sure its a good one.

NOTE: Like all games it has the LEET 1337 kids that talk trash to people, if you have ventrilo teamspeak or Xfire you will hear them on the mic or randomly PMing you. There is also a issue of them begging for free item’s or help when this game has a lvl 20 cap.

If you like flashy automatic movies, lack of game play, and pretending that Pawnzoring people with worst internet connections than you makes you speical then this game is for you.

If on the other hand you are looking for a game with you know… content then you may want to buy a diffrent game. Not only is this game repetitive but you can get through all the content in a day or so.

You have to give it to them though. They made a game you could program on a graphing calulator and passed off the lack of content as a bonus. “Hey you don”t have to grind! … you can… um… i don”t know. Maybe like attack each other or something?”

This game is like City of Heroes meets Counterstrike minus the fun.

The guilds are a good idea if you could actually find a GOOD GUILD, that was interactive. If you found one, you are lucky, but many times i would join a guild with lots of members but none of them would be willing to help me doing a mission or would want to go pvp with me. Everyone had their own agenda.

My favorite thing of this game was the PVP because it was nothing like ive seen before. Unlike games like d2, where it matted on how high leveled you were and how godly your gear was, Guidl wars is different where its all about strategy. In my opinion, guild wars is the new way to play chess.

So in conclusion, PvE not social enough. The market is bad, once your rich all you do with all that extra money is just try to flaunt it and look cool. And the pvp is great.
Community is good if you can find a GOOD guild

PvP
A pvp system thats worthy of mention many different classes with interesting abilities meet in a battleground where five fight five to the death. I enjoyed this as you can gain a small ammount of experience doing this.rather than feeling like a sub game for when you get bored.

Now the bad points
lag is an issue and unfortunately as soon as you leave the towns you will not see another player unless grouped as you are basically entering an “instance” (in world of warcraft terms).
Yes it does lack some content in terms of character control and social interaction but not enough to hinder it when standing on the “no online subscription” leg.

Graphics: completely stunning as you can see simply from the screen shot, it has a vast instance type world. Which is actualy its only downfall, when you enter a zone you can take 4-8 people with you in your party and go in to a zone with noone in it but you and your party. It is considered a boom and a bust witht the instance play as D&D players will like it but people from normal mmorpgs with vast explorable places where their are no zones, will probably hate it horrible.

Playability: Its a overall good control featuring game as you can use wasd controls or arrows or even your mouse, all depends on what you play and how you do it.

Sound: Well i have no complaints in the catagory as its pretty flawless sound track.

Community: Average, there are some rude and ignorant people in the game and there are mostly nice and helpfull people. Now if your one of the 9 year olds that like the 1337 language, go play runescape as youll find more people in commen with you there then you will this game.

The world of guildwars: It is vast and commenly notified as HUGE but as i explained above it is instance style which means around 40% of the towns are abandoned, so good luck doing low life missions because your going to be taking your Henchmen which are hired npcs that work with you on your journeys and are often unreliable and have terrible builds.

Builds: these are a set of skills that players use as different effects or combo’s to kill there enemys with.

In this game there is lots of playable classes the only real downfall is that you can only be a human as a race, this is where most games crush guildwars, i would sincerely like to see some lineage 2 races implemented in Guild wars.

Graphics: 9.3
Sound: 10
Playability: 10
Map: 7.8
Community: 6.7

Overall: 9.467

Sincerely maximum damage.

OVERALL ITS a GOOD 9

Graphics: 4.5/5 Better than WoW! Each guild has its own unique cape you design and characters can differ greatly.

Play: 4/5 Hate point and clicks but this take it to a whole new level! tons of skills and you are able to change from one weapon proficiency to another very quickly.

Sound- 3/5 Prophecies sound is good, beutiful, but dissapears every now and then.

The only playable race is human, but there are several professions you can play. 3 Chapters have been published: each one is sold as a stand alone game, but you can bring all your characters from one chapter to another. With the 3 chapters published so far, the player base has spread so wide, over 90% of the towns are ghost-towns: there is hardly anyone there. The starter areas are well populated, though.

You can learn hundreds of skills, but your character can only equip 8 skills (also spells are skills). This is one of the downsides of the game: you will find out that other players think you NEED to have a certain build of skills for you to be useful. For example, of the elementalist profession only fire elementalists that have Meteor Shower and ability to echo this spell (“echo nuker”) are welcomed into teams. Water, air and earth magic is almost not used at all. With the necromancer profession, you either go as a minion master that controls undead servants, or as a “SS” that uses a spell from the curses-attribute line. Assasins, ritualists, mesmers, dervishes and paragons have great difficulties to get in player teams anywhere. Many game areas have fallen into “barrage-pet” or “5-men farming team” playing, where your team composition and player skills are always the same. This is due to the fact, that the monster spawns are each time the same, and the fighting is predictable.

The game is all about fighting, but it’s rather well done. When you choose to attack your target, you go into auto-attacking (using your equipped weapon). But you can and do use your 8 equipped skills to increase the dameage, protect yourself, cause conditions, disable your targets/buff your allies and so on.

You start the game from a tutorial area. Top level you can reach is 20, and you reach it very soon. You can buy all the top weapons ridiculously cheap from other players already from the city you start. Any max damage weapon is just about as good as the next one. Monsters drop weapons, but armors you need to buy from NPC-armor traders, and they are the only thing that really cost money and raw materials. Weapons are cheap, unless you want some rare skin weapons.

There is both PvE- and PvP-gaming. Player versus player (PvP) takes places in arenas, so there is no fear any player will attack you in cities or in explorable areas.

The graphics for characters and secenery are very good. Spell effects are from pathetic to non-existing. Weapon skins are decent and there is a rather good variety of different sort of both weapon and armor skins.

After you play a chapter’s missions through, you spend endlessly time in farming, that is, killing monsters for gold or some named weapon they might drop.

PvP is completely different though, i’ve never seen another game like this as far as PvP goes.
The most obvious form of PvP is Guild Vs Guild battles, two guilds of 8 people and several NPC’s have to kill each others Guild Lords and also capture a central flag stand to get a morale boost. There’s an intense amount of strategy involved in GvG including players skills, split strategies (splitting into two teams of 4), when to repair the siege catapult, etc.
There’s also 4vs4 which is basicly a quick “Wham Bam!” game of whoever can annihilate each other the fastest.

Thanks to the level cap this game keeps everything fair and the best players generally win.

On the downside, lag hasn’t been a rarity recently and this can cause your character to “rubber-band” across the screen.. Also on a low end computer expect your frame-rate to fall into single figures when you enter a highly populated outpost.

Overall this is a decent game, definitely worth buying.

thanks for reading

The pvp is fun but during one round 3 noobs were able to own my team (who were all way beter…) bcuz they had one high lvl priest whos hp didnt even lower….The battle lasted 35 mins and i juyst gave up…….

Great game i suggest getting it. World of Warcraft is way better though and worth the $15 dollars a month.

I give it a 6.

There is also map travel in Guild Wars. You don’t need to fight your way to a town more than a single time to open it on your map and make the town accessible anytime you wish to go there.

Another good thing about Guild Wars is the versatility of your skills and abilities. You don’t have stats like dexterity or wisdom or anything like that. Instead each class has attributes. For example a necromancer has four attributes. Blood Magic, Death Magic, Curses, and Soul Reaping. The more attribute points you spend in death magic the higher level your minions will be. You can change your attribute points anytime you want as long as you are in a town. You gain attribute points as you level and you never lose your attribute points, so don’t worry about taking points from one attribute to put into another. That is a common fear early in the game for new players. Skill points, also gained at leveling, are the spendable points, and you only ever use those when you see a skill trainer and decide to purchase skills. It will cost you some gold and 1 skill point per skill you wish to buy. If you start with Prophecies most of your skills can be had for free through quests. However, if you start out in Factions, you will have to purchase most of your skills.

Guild Wars Prophecies is the first chapter of the game. Guild Wars Factions is the second chapter and was marketed as a stand alone game. You don’t need both in order to play, however, Factions levels you alot faster and there are plenty of high level mobs. If you are new to Guild Wars it might be wiser to begin with Prophecies. You will level much slower, but you will gain most of your skills for free and you will learn what you are doing on enemies appropriate to your level. There is a starter island in Factions and I did create a brand new charater there. I had the experience of the first game to draw from and even I was surprised at the size of some of the mobs they put in there. There are a few tough spots in Prophecies, but the feeling of being gradually eased into the game is present there unlike in Factions, which seems too rushed and too short. And they did add an element of grind to Factions that they didn’t have in the first chapter, very likely to make up for the lack of content. Most experienced Guild Wars players agree that Factions is an expansion, regardless of the fact that it was marketed as a stand alone product.

I will also express to you my thoughts on the community of Guild Wars. I don’t have children myself, but I would not allow a child of mine to go near this game. At least not without supervision. If you as a parent play it or you know and trust people who play it and know who your child will be playing with, then it might be ok. But lately the behavior of the Guild Wars community has been on a rapid decline. There will always be perverts and racists anywhere you go online. The staff does their best to get rid of those people but there are no regular GM’s on the game to monitor what is going on and they basically rely on us to report problems when we see them. But beyond that, there are people on Guild Wars who I wouldn’t want influencing my kids. These are the type of people who have no manners and they curse and they rant and they make hateful comments and generally give other players a hard time. There is a chat filter, but it is easy to turn it off from the options menu.

I would’ve given Guild Wars a higher rating if it were not for Factions. But since I did not see a Factions only review, you are getting my rating for both games combined, and it is probably somewhat colored by my growing disgust with the player community.

Its around $50, but once you get it, you dont have to pay anything else. It will probably get cheaper once more people buy it.

GREAT GAME!!!

Bad:
– Game.
– Small world.
– No exploration.
– Completely linear.
– The world outside towns and cities is more of an rpg; just you and your party exist within it.
– Terrain is completely pathed.
– There is no 1-on-1 pvp.
– There are only about 10 different sets of armour in the WHOLE GAME.
– Armour and weapons are completely class specific.
– Max level in 2 weeks, then what?