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Guild Wars (PC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG

RELEASE DATE

28/APR/05

ESRB RATING

TEEN, Violence

DEVELOPER

NC Interactive

PUBLISHER

ArenaNet, Inc.

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

PLAYING AS #USES

Elementalist 338
Hero 256
human 228

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

GENERAL TONE #USES

beautiful 601
epic 478
addictive 453

DESCRIPTION

Guild Wars players go online to take the roles of wizards and warriors in a medieval fantasy world, where they'll battle and adventure on their own, cooperatively, or — as the title suggests — in guild warfare against teams of other players. The game world is home to a once-proud kingdom, which has recently been overrun by the forces of evil and chaos. Available player professions include warriors, rangers, monks, mesmers, elementalists, and necromancers, and players are encouraged to choose a combination of any two professions for each character they play. More options become available in a series of planned "chapter" updates to the main game.

Guild Wars features common world areas, such as towns and outposts, where all players can gather and meet, but the game is particularly mission-based. When players embark on a quest, alone or in a small party, a private area of the game world is created for them, and nearly all of the real adventuring takes place in these exclusive territories. More similar to the multiplayer structure of games like Diablo or Dungeon Siege than conventional "massively multiplayer online role-playing games" (or "MMORPGs"), the developers refer to Guild Wars as a "competitive online role-playing game" (or "CORPG").

With its North American operations led by Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott, South Korean publisher NCSoft has been a principal figure in the realm of persistent world gaming, releasing three games — Linage II, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars — between spring 2004 and spring 2005. Guild Wars uses a different method for ongoing customer payments than most MMORPGs, however. Players log into the game through the developer's "ArenaNet" service, which works similarly to Blizzard's "Battle.net." The Seattle-based ArenaNet development studio was founded by former member of the Blizzard team.

Instead of requiring a monthly subscription fee, the Guild Wars plan is to release regular expansion "chapters," which advance the game world story but can only be accessed by players who pay for them. While Guild Wars players will have to purchase each new chapter they choose to use, they won't be charged any recurring subscription fees to play the basic version of the game for as long as they'd like, and participating in new chapters is always optional. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide

Guild Wars (PC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Role-playing/Third-Person 3D Action RPG
RELEASE DATE:

28/APR/05
TOP TRAITS:

Fantasy, free-to-play, beautiful
DESCRIPTION:

Guild Wars players go online to take the roles of wizards and warriors in a medieval fantasy world, where they'll bat... more

players 12,179

times played 21,804

POPULARITY: PC PLATFORM

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Kathiryn Swan

“My lvl 20 Derv.”

Added by: NebsiNsaNe
Date: 05/JUL/2009
Views: 3
Votes: 0

created 05/JUL/2009

Dart The Eternal played Guild Wars (PC) on 04/JUL/09

“Did 25k worth in alliance faction, chatted for a bit, and welcomed Sirocco to the team”

created 05/JUL/2009

Drakiis played Guild Wars (PC) on 04/JUL/09

“out of tedious bordom and the fail that is Darkfall I choose you Guild Wars”

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Marcus Thor

“lvl20 D”

Added by: allterio
Date: 04/JUL/2009
Views: 1
Votes: 0

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Winter Song

“lvl20 E”

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Date: 04/JUL/2009
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Alleria Swiftblade

“lvl20 W”

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Date: 04/JUL/2009
Views: 1
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Aller Thor

“lvl20 R”

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Date: 04/JUL/2009
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Freya Thor

“lvl20 Mo”

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Date: 04/JUL/2009
Views: 1
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An empty slate? by: Sirocco-Russ

“ Boy, talk about getting in on the ground floor. Unless I read this site wrong, I am the second person to register after Jaz! That may mean that no one will be subjected to my diatribes for some...”

created 04/JUL/2009

My character

“My LVL 20 Ele/Necro from Guild Wars, I'm so proud”

Added by: NeoZid
Date: 03/JUL/2009
Views: 7
Votes: 0

created 03/JUL/2009

Dacimannes was the last to comment - 2 days ago...

“A lvl 20 Prophecies char IS something to be proud of. Takes forever. Grats anyways”

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“good game but u get bored fast ”

Added by: Li-Hui-Ming
Date: 03/JUL/2009
Views: 8
Votes: 0

created 03/JUL/2009

guildwars4lyfe played Guild Wars (PC) on 03/JUL/09

“Not much”

created 03/JUL/2009

Happy Birthday Tarin Artemis and Arachnis Kgar by: timberwolf

“Last month Tarin Artemis turned one and Arachnis Kgar is about to turn one this month which also means that I have played Guild Wars for one year now. These are my only two original characters I...”

created 03/JUL/2009

Rainbow Pheonix by: elegantrose

“question- If you make the hall of monuments display account wide accomplishments, do they continue to count towards the earning of the rainbow pheonix or is it per character?”

created 02/JUL/2009