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Guild Wars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

graphics arent nearly as nice as advertised, but very catchy game, hard to stop once you start.

Guild Wars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game for online play that does not cost to play. The graphics are cool and unique.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even though this game has been out for quite awhile, I just want to put in my two cents. There's plenty of places to find out exactly what guild wars is, but heres a few reasons why I like and why I dont like it.

If GW didn't have few things going for it it wouldn't be that special. I think one of the main things that make this game what it is, isn't nessarily the graphics, but the whole art direction of the game. From the box art to the character select screen, the game is beautiful. I remeber the main reason I bought it was simply the box art. I'm not speaking strictly about the graphics here either, everything about the game is pleasing to behold (oddly, except the loading screen.) Your character whether it's a stealthy assasin or a powerful warrior all look the part. I mainly choose to play chicks because I'd rather stare at the backside of a girl for hours on end, and boy does she look nice. Warriors and weapons are strong and powerful looking, skill effcts are nice, the scenery is beautiful to behold. And herein lay some of my main complaints with GW.

GW has big beautiful environments to trek out and explore, but sadly there's no real reason to do so. Every environment seems like it was painstakingly produced but oddly is devoid of life. There are no "secret treasures" to be found, no secret pathways, no special monsters or special weapons to discover. In games like Final fantasy and Neverwinter nights, you are rewarded for going off the beaten path. Rewarded by a conversation with one of your characters, rewarded by finding a new spell or weapon. In GW you simply follow your green arrow until you get to a monster or your destination and that's it. NPC's are basically paper dolls that DO NOTHING but sit in one spot forever until you come up to talk to them. Towns are empty cardboard husks that only exist to serve you to find them, find some meaningless quest and go kill a monster. I realize that is somewhat needed given the nature of the gameplay, but come on these people could have cycles,they could come in and out of buildings, the could have SOME sort of life besides never moving and doing nothing.

The main story in GW revolves around the CHarr invasion, but somewhere in the middle a whole host of new enemies are introduced and the story goes all over, what story there is to begin with. I'm later up in the game and I really have no clue what is going on, I just follow the missions with a friend.

Guild Wars' problem is it wants to be a lot of things to a lot of people, but doesn't go quite as far as it needs to to satisfy the role players out there. It's more of an "action" game with RPG elements that you can play with a friend. It has some similarities to Neverwinter Nights and if it would take a lot more of them from it, you would have a serious winner on your hands. As it is you never feel like you're in the game. It looks as if theyve addressed some of this with the new expansion Eye of the North, but we'll see.

I know it seems like I've bashed the game but it really is fun to play given what it is and if you understand you're not getting an RPG. The 8 skills at a time forces you to strategize and balance, the environments that you traverse are all gorgeous and well designed, and the multiple expansions means you'll never have nothing to do. It's just to bad it's not geared more to the person who just wants to experience the story and do a little role playing. For that you should get games liek NWN and Oblivion.

Fun game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game overall. The only problem I have with it is online chatting. Some people talk on it like its AOL when all I want to do is missions. When you can find good people online to play with the game is fun.

Are these reviews from Guild wars employees???

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 34
Date: June 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS GARBAGE. I don't know who these people are giving these good reviews because I have been in 2 guilds in the game... it shows when fellow guild-mates logged on last... most not for days and weeks! It's been the same for me now. The graphics are superb but as stated in earlier reviews the interface is lacking. It's like they just didn't sit back for a sec and look and think, is this going to be FUN? The thing that really bugs me is that you get almost 0 xp for fighting... it is all quest based. While this may sound refreshing, the quests are few and far between, requiring one to unlock another, yada-yada. You can fight a battle where the likelihood of death is high, get almost no xp for it, and it is easy to die, which is horrible because you may be 10 minutes or more towards the only thing that moves the game:quests... And as far as guild wars, I haven't heard, seen, or anything about any sort of guild wars. I haven't played PvP... though it seems to be based on small teams taking each other on, not large conflicts... not the reason the game sounded so cool(and I thought it mentioned on the box) that guilds would be at war!

GUILDWARS is the next CounterStrike/StarCraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: May 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a competitive gamer you best get your hands on GUILDWARS as it will take over the world as the next big Gaming Sport.

There is a standard RPG story that takes you from level 1-20 then there is the PvP end game. Team based combat, tactics, manuevers, body blocking, dodging projectiles all come into play. The combat is more like then CS then WoW or EQ.

There has already been a 30k Korean tournament for this game before it was even RELEASED!!!!

Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has stellar graphics, and interacting with others on the web means it is never the same.
The world is HUGE, you will spend countless hours exploring.

Guild Wars, truly an amazing game with few flaws.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Guild Wars is a popular online game, one of the few MMORPGs that do not have a monthly fee attached.

As you start out your experience, you're given the option to start a role-playing character, or begin head-on with a PvP (Player vs. Player) character, already at level 20, the maximum level.

The main focus of the game is strategy, not leveling unlike other games. Player's create role-playing characters at first to experience the storyline, but the main purpose is to unlock skills through the development of your character, which can be later used freely in any PvP character you create.

Over time, the game has greatly developed from where it started, with entirely new areas being added at no cost to the players, a faction system allowing players to fight in PvP matches and gain points to unlock more skills and items to better themselves, and the system of PvP is very refined, allowing casual players to have fun with any amount of time they have to play.

I've personally jumped between MMORPGs, and find myself continuously coming back to this one since it's free and holds no obligation to pay to keep your characters and achievements alive. I recommend this for any player wishing to find an MMORPG that relies heavily around strategy in the end (since anyone can be level 20), instead of just being a higher level.

The only reason i have given this game four stars is not because of the quality of the game itself, but the experience players may experience inside. When wanting to participate in the Hall of Heroes (HoH), the highest tournament in the Guild Wars world, most groups will only accept you if you're a high rank, which you can only achieve by doing good in the tournament. This results in many new people not being welcomed into the tournament as they should, and finding it overly difficult to raise their fame ranking. Because of this, I find the game become less and less friendly in the PvP area to newer players, which may be pushed towards the Random/Team Arena battles and discouraged from HoH in the end.

Don't let this stop you from getting the game though. It's great fun on any amount of time availability (no logging out needed!), and with the new Guild Wars: Factions coming out, you will be able to travel between worlds and experience the growing world.

Nice MMORPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Slick job done by NCSoft, with a fun game. All six professions each are very well done, not having a certain one that is better. The secondary profession is a nice change as well. May get repetetive after time, but a good game indeed. Worth it.

Totaly Awesome Game To Play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: August 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game may not be as good as World of Warcraft but it is still a good game to play if you don't want to pay monthly. But I think it is better than City of Villans and City of Heros. But it is slightly adictive so don't shout at your parents when they tell you to get off because they might take it away.

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