Guild Wars Nightfall - Collectors Edition |
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NCsoft
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £5.34
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: NCsoft
EAN: 5060094441344
Label: NCsoft
Manufacturer: NCsoft
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 132
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: NCsoft
Release Date: 2006-10-27
Studio: NCsoft |
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Product Description
Guild Wars: Nightfall takes place on the continent of Elona, Land of the Golden Sun. It is a nation comprised of three great provinces.
Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The third Guild Wars campaign is the most sociable of all, in terms of other meeting other people in the massively multiplayer online world and getting help from new virtual heroes. The lowdown:
Dubbed the world’s first co-operative online role-playing game (or competitive, depending on your temperament), Guild Wars manages to distinguish itself from the crowd by moving the focus away from constantly levelling up and focusing it squarely on combat between and against players. This third game in the series is set on the new continent of Elona and features two new classes of character to play as: the long range Paragon and the magical Dervish. Twenty new missions and hundreds of quests are included, in what is more than just an expansion pack even if it’s not quite a new game. Most exciting moment:
The best new element of the game is certainly the new hero characters who you can recruit to join your cause. Unlike the previous nondescript henchmen these are fully customisable in terms of skills and equipment and you can even set them fighting against each other, in special hero vs. hero areas of the game. Since you ask:
Guild Wars is one of the very few commercially available massively multiplayer online role-playing games not to require a monthly subscription fee. Instead, after you’ve bought the game itself, it’s free to play and publisher NCsoft gets its additional revenues through advertising instead. The bottom line:
A welcome evolution of one of the most unique online games around.-HARRISON DENT
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Great!, 2009-07-19
If you like the games in this serious this is a great expansion pack. Highly recommended. Free online gaming, well worth it.
 It is addictive and you will look forward to evenings spent online., 2009-04-01
My first experience of an Online Role Playing Game. Easy to install and set up on a modest XP system. Quite a learning curve to play but fun doing so.
After the tutorial it felt a bit like the first day at school ,arriving in this big magical world with everyone else running around knowing exactly what they are doing and where they are going.
However other players are friendly and helpful. There is also a useful help system provided by pressing F10.
(By the way, there is no 'walk' option in this game you run everywhere!)
I bought my girlfriend a copy too (as she loves gaming and loved 'Dungeon Siege' and 'Neverwinter Nights' which in some ways this game resembles). After browsing a few web pages for advice we found it fairly easy to meet up online and go off adventuring using the player controlled 'Hero' and 'Henchmen' options to boost the numbers in our party. Communication is by text. Most non-player characters use text to communicate (as opposed to voice acting) which takes getting used to. Heroes have various commands you can click on.
Game play is addictive. You can dive straight in and have fun or explore the complexities of skills, attributes, weapons and upgrades. You can have quick short games or long epics.
Player character selections are all human (no orcs, reptillians etc..) and their faces are all quite similar and a bit too 'pretty pretty' and pouting for my taste (but this is a minor complaint and easily forgotten once you start playing).
Graphics are effective with nice details, I found myself stopping to just look closely on several occasions. It's great to have a game with African inspired themes and characters.
A few extras like the Art book are pleasant to browse through, a good map. The included 'making of' DVD is interesting, the developers seem like nice people who really love what they are doing. I have no use for the cardboard cutout figure or badges which I will probably give to my nephew.
It is addictive and you will look forward to evenings spent online.
No monthly fee is great!
Have fun, I may see you in the game... Regards Mike aka "Sea Reel"
The Journey Continues, 2009-10-30
An MMORPG for existing Guild Wars players Or those who have never played before.
If you've played the other campaigns in the Guild Wars series and wondering if you should buy this one or not, I would strongly recommend you do. This takes the game play further than before with the introduction of controllable heroes from the start. More skills, Items and weapons, and two new professions the Paragon and Dervish. Not to mention new guild locations, new land to explore...list is quite long.
The graphics are stunning and the sound and music compliment everything nicely. At some points you'll find yourself just looking at the scenery.
It is an excellent continuation for your existing game characters Or if you have never played Guild Wars don't worry, it's a new story line and has a helpful tutorial at the start for those not familiar with the game. You don't need the others to enjoy this. What makes Guild Wars stand out from other MMO games aswell as it game play is the fact that it's free to play online. All you pay for is the game.
As for the Collectors Edition, you will not be disappointed. Nicely presented, the package comes with a number of goodies that any Guild Wars fan would love. To start, you'll get two large posters one of which is the map of Elona. A Card standee, Two skill pin badges Paragon and Dervish, that to my knowledge you can't get anywhere else. A players guild to nightfall, an amazing book on the art of nightfall (if your into that sort of thing) CD of the game with the access key, the music soundtrack to the game by Jeremy Soule and a DVD of the making of Nightfall which again for any fan, is a must see.
This really is a lovely package to have part of your Guild Wars collection. Even if you have the Game already, the collectors edition with all of its goodies pays for itself. A great price for a great bundle.
Brilliant!! , 2008-01-13
I have tried game after game after game to try and find one that I could actually get along with. Many other games, both MMORPG and FPS, bored me so much after a while and I would stop playing. Then I would get bored not playing anything. It was my boyfriend that suggested getting this game. He wanted to try it so I thought that I would give it a whirl as well. I had heard many good things about the entire Guild Wars collection and know a lot of people who already play it.
I have really enjoyed this game so far, the guild interaction is brilliant. I know that I can ask anyone in the guild to help me if I need it.
I would recommend this game highly to anyone that wanted a bit of a change but also to people who are new to MMORPG games as it is quite easy to pick up, it is obvious as to where to go next and who to talk to.
world of what?, 2008-01-03
this game is one of the best mmo (CORP precisely) out there, this doesn use the normal exploits of other mmos such as payin monthly, these set of missions is the middle on in terms of length (the longest being the orignal guild wars [prophercies] and hte shortest being factions]) but by no means is it any easier...i spend days on a mission with different parties mainly cos it was hard in parts, and unlike any other mmos it isnt about time spent on the game its more about skill, this is done by havin a low lvl cap (lvl 20 max) and only allowin 8 skills to take with you from a whole host of skills from your primary profession and your secondary (think of it as being a soldier as a healer at the same time...thats what im kinda sayin.) and dont think just because there is a low level cap that, thats all there is cos the mission will get harder as you go on, and yes you have the aid of better AI heroes, but they will get harder and make you think of how to tackle certain enemies, rather than rushin head first into them.
This game has a massive replayablity, with you being able to choose from 8 professions (the scythe wielding dervish [and lemme tell you they look COOL] and the javelin throwin paragon [which acts like a long distance warrior] are the new professions), the fact that even though it doesnt have fee the people at A-net still treats this game with constant updates (not too constant taht you find youself downloading them evry wednesday) and it has special even 3 times per month which could be extra faction points in pvp, better drop, more xp (though its not that big a deal) etc... though this game is release pre-WoW it still packs a massive punch.
This game should be bought by:
1) rpg fans with an internet connection
2) any one who owns the previous guild wars
3) someone who is quitting a larger mmo (i wont say which but i think you all know what it is)
4) someone who like to pvp
5) anyone who wants to get into the mmorpg scene
6) anyone who like the FF series (trust me you can do the whole campaign as single player and its definatly like FF minus the gravity defying hair and wierd weapons)
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