 Long lasting love, 2008-03-15
A genuine alternative to WoW - really!
Buy the game then play it on-line for free (broadband connection required!).
Regular free updates and relatively cheap add-on packs which are games in their own right.
GW Prophesies, Factions and Nightfall are stand-alone games, each based in a different massive continent.
BUT if you own more than one, you can travel your characters between them.
When I swing a sword (bow, hammer, staff, wand, etc) I swing a sword in Guild Wars.
Good but Boring, 2007-12-06
I played this game for about 1 year, got far but got very bored. The graphics in this game are very good and was pleased with the story line. But i soon found that it started getting repetitive.Overall i thought this game was good. But it can get very boring! The max lvl you can get upto is 20!! ... Think carefully
 The Good and the Bad of Guild Wars, 2009-02-05
Have all the Guild Wars series [four at the moment].
The Good. It has great graphics, if you have all four games in the series they link quite well. Overall story line is very good though problems in each of the four sections of the Guild wars world seem to have the same problems. Good side quests which enable you to level-up. Cut scenes are quite good considering difficulty of having the game on the web. Playing RPG is interesting [haven't played PvP yet] and you have a chance of mixing up talents from two 'professions'.
The Bad, games are supposed to be Fun, be Fair, give Feedback and be reasonably Feasible. This game after you spent many hours battling and getting to around level 20, suddenly starts losing the Fun and Fairness side. You stay at Level Twenty though opponents and mosters are obviously level 25 and upwards in some cases, a definite imbalance there! [NWN2 allows levelling up to 40, as does the KoToR series, so why can't GW???]. If you enter a mission be prepared to have to stay in the game for up to four hours in some cases, because there are no auto-saves, no intermediate safe-areas in which to leave the game. Talking of missions you can spend hours just getting to a mission, with monsters getting more viscious and more numerous if you are around the 20-level. It also seems that should you 'die' during a battle in an area, and think of restarting that area, the enemies you face also become stronger and higher in number [this proved no to be my imagination, I had someone monitor the enemies after I had re-started an area]. Dying in an RPG is normal as in life but there comes a point when you start getting killed just too often and that happens a lot in this game. The Armor you are given is pretty poor to start with and cannot be made much better. Some of the so-called weapon slots just don't work [not in my case anyway], so changing weapons in the middle of a hectic battle is a nightmare.
Overall great idea, wonderfully produced series of games that sadly in later stages lose their Fun and Fairness. I'm sure some players enjoy struggling for days and days over one mission, but for me and many that's not Fun that's Hard Work
Way better than expected, 2008-04-20
I used to really dislike MMORPG's for the reason most people don't like them, I thought they were for nerds. Yeah, I know that's pretty shallow and stereotypical, but I know a boy at college who is probably the biggest geek on the planet (I'm not picking on him, he admits it) and all he does is play World of Warcraft. Sad. So obviously that put me off quite a bit. But one of my friends (who doesn't really play MMO's but loves this) eventually convinced me to try Guild Wars, so I thought why not, it's free isn't it? I don't think I've ever been so addicted to a game! It really is great. I gave in and downloaded a free trial of WoW after getting this, and I just thought it was slow and boring with bland graphics, and why should you have to wait til you're about level 20 (which would take frigging ages, I got to level 4, nearly died of boredem and gave up) just to enjoy the game. Guild Wars on the other hand is superb. It's a joy to play from level 1 onwards (I'm at level 10 after only about 8/9 hours of play, I wonder how long it would take to get that far on WoW?-_-zzzz). The graphics are great, and whoever has a problem with the fighting system and says WoW's is better. WHY!!?? It's pretty much exactly the same, except that GW actually moves along whereas WoW is slow and tedious. Also, I found the community in Guild Wars very friendly and helpful. One person I met pretty much showed me the ropes and hepled me get going. So any problems? Well just one. I would have liked to have seen alot more slots for skills as there's so many awesome skills to learn, it can be hard to choose just 8 of them sometimes.
Pretty much a perfect online game as you don't have to pay a monthly fee and is overall just brilliant. Another good online game I got a trial of is Tabula Rasa, although you do have to pay for that one.
Guild wars = very highly recommended.
Guild War Bore, 2008-12-29
O.K - so i have recently become interested in Role-Play games and love the Neverwinter Nights franchise. I was interested in a new game and the Guild wars get such good reviews that I bought the complete collection so far. However, despite the beautiful graphics and ease of play and the lack of monthly charges (very good!), I found myself just bored by the game. I like to play alone and solve every mission and I found that there was far too little character in the people you meet. I was forever being given a charge to find a special chest or rescue a special bird, and could just follow the guide on the map and pick up the relative item and bring it back with very little challenge, or point, so it felt. I have played for about 7 hours now, but frankly it is too easy. Want to go kamikaze in a battle? No problem! - you will just be reincarnated once again with seemingly no penalty. I suppose in conclusion I found it dense and busy, withoutever really getting a sense for the storyline or caring about what happens. Neverwinter Nights is more directed and I like that, while complex, you have a sense of progression. Guild wars disappointed me, when I really wanted to like it.
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