Guild Wars

Publisher: Ncsoft

Developer: ArenaNet

Category: Role-Playing

Release Dates

N Amer - 04/28/2005

Online - 04/28/2005

Official Game Website

GameZone's Review

9.3
GZ Rating

Gameplay	9.1
Graphics	9.5
Sound	9
Difficulty	Med/Hard
Concept	9.3
Multiplayer	9.1
Overall	9.3

Reviewer: Michael Lafferty

Review Date: 05/06/2005

Guild Wars offers fast-paced graphically spectacular gaming in a PvP-centric arena, but that’s not all it offers

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Avg. Web Rating

8.8

GameZone's Preview

Tim Surette - 11/04/2004

Guild Wars will shake the MMORPG genre until all the experience points fall out… its unique combat and skill system is great for anyone who is frustrated with the same tired MMOs.

Michael Lafferty - 05/14/2004

Guild Wars offers content for both the casual and hardcore gamer

Michael Lafferty - 05/21/2003

Guild Wars takes competitive RPG online gaming to new levels

Interviews

ArenaNet’s community manager reflects on four years of Guild Wars
“ … we were confident that we had something special in Guild Wars”

Guild Wars advances player combat skills and tries to level the field, but is it moving in the right direction?
First thoughts on the state of combat models in the realm of massively multiplayer games

ArenaNet’s Gaile Gray Conducts of Quick Tour Into the World of Guild Wars
“Our primary design goal with Guild Wars is to create a game that provides meaningful competition.”

News

Guild Wars Surpasses Six Million Units Sold
NCsoft and ArenaNet Mark Four-Year Anniversary of Genre-Defining Game with Major Milestone and New Game Content

NCsoft Offers Award-Winning Product Lineup on Steam
City of Heroes, Guild Wars and Lineage Franchises Now Available Via Leading Online Platform for PC Games

Guild Wars Tops Five Million Units Sold
Guild Wars franchise breaks major milestone in less than three years.

Guild Wars Music to Be Featured at 'PLAY! A Video Game Symphony'
ArenaNet® has announced that music from its Guild Wars® franchise of games will be performed as part of “PLAY!

NCsoft’s Guild Wars Breaks Four Million
Subscription-free business model sets new standard for online multiplayer games

All News for Guild Wars

Description

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past. Within a quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you: your magic can build bridges and open up new pathways, or it can burn down forests and tear the ground asunder

Hardware Requirements

Windows 98/ME/2000 XP/ 800 MHz Pentium 3 or equivalent/ 256 MB RAM/ GeForce 2 class video card with 32MB RAM/ 250 MB hard drive space/ Internet connection