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A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Guild Wars is a great game for people who like all out fighting and roleplaying. And if you like games with swords and shields this game has more like magic and much more. Another thing is you get to make a guild or join one and do guild battles. [...]

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!

Piss poor, poorly programmed, repetitive.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 27
Date: July 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A game created by the outcasts of Blizzard Entertainment, who gave us the glorious Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood Wars and the piss-poor-poorly-programmed-repetitive Diablo II, gave us a glorified version of Diablo II called Guild Wars.

The game is utterly repetitive, same quests, same skills, just different choices about the class you want to be... sound familiar? If you played Diablo II, then it should. They tried to add elements of Never Winter Nights and Ultima Online. Districts take the place of chat rooms but generally serve the same purpose as a city such as the Rogue Encampment and a chatroom did in Diablo.

Leveling is harder than it is in Diablo (one of the very few pluses) and they managed to make this game more than just a item-hunt fest. The animinated scenes are okay if you want to see people talk without their mouths move. The fighting is basically your click-n-slash but only having to click once. The camera angles harsh enough to give you vertigo and nausea.

Skills and attributes are an utter joke, with no thought as to how to improve the character or make it better and the salvageable and crafting items are and equal joke, most of which you can't use to improve your character.

So in the end, you're left with characters that do not seem special, quests and missions that you will eventually finish and thus have to create new characters to do over again, and a very limited world to operate in. ArenaNet tried to combine an MMORPG into a Diablo frame and it failed miserably. But hey, it's the price you pay for free online game-play. My advice? Shuck out a few bucks a month to play a real MMORPG and not this garbage.

Another honest review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 27
Date: February 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My views on games are always fair so I say this to be completely firm and honest.

Don't buy this game unless you aren't looking for a MMORPG.

This clearly isn't one. When I tried it out, I wasn't impressed. It was boring. The limited cities. Only encounting other players IN cities. No feel for real growth in my character. No real endgame or set purpose in leveling. Again, this may be good for a quick log on and play but I wasn't even remotedly impressed overall.

Now the graphics are really nice but unless you are seeking a arcade type game. So Id have to say, all the other reviewers are blowing this up more than it is. I found it not fun and rather boring.

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!!!!

Graphics are Great, Gameplay is lackluster

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For fans of World of Warcraft, this game is pretty similar. The graphics are really pretty impressive, and the world is well developed. I however did not care much for WoW, and found this game to be too similar.
On the one hand it is a free online multiplayer game. However the game promised that it would reward skill as opposed to hours spent playing it. I found that to not be the case. Ultimately it boiled down to a Diabloesque click fest. That is okay from time to time if a good story line is layered on top of the game, but I never really got hooked on the story.

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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