Product Description

You'll prove your worth with every battle as skill, not hours played, decides your fate. Create your champion from over thirty different profession combinations and hundreds of unique skills. Your skill will be your legend. Are you up for the challenge?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8037 in Video Games
• Brand: Infinity Ward
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD

Customer Reviews

VERY GREAT GAME!!
This game is great!!!
the virtual world has great graphics and is so large. This game even works on pretty slow computers!
I play this game all the time and i am glad its one of those games were you can play for a couple minutes, log off but still have fun in those couple of minutes. If you are looking for a fantasy fighting game this is the one to bye.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

Guild Wars (Game of the Year Edition)
This game is so wonderful that I still play it even after an entire year and a half and continue to. The graphics are just amazing and the story line isn't bad at all. I love the different ways I can customize my characters and their skills. The only thing I don't like about it is that the female characters' clothes can be a little revealing; but all video games are like that. (Blast those stereotypes!)

You can make PvE (player vs. environment) characters or PvP (player vs. player) characters. The PvE characters start off at level 1 and you have to work your way up to level 20, the highest. If you want you can also do PvP battles with your PvE character if you want to. The PvP characters start off at level 20 and maximum armor with most of the skills unlocked but you can't play PvE with them.

There are:
Warriors: Pretty much humans who fight with swords, axes, hammers.
Rangers: Humans who work with bows and can tame pets to fight along in battle.
Elementalists: People who can fight with fire, earth, air, and water elements.
Necromancers: "Emo" and dark people who can raise minions from corpses, steal health with Death Magic, and put curses on enemies.
Mesmers: People who can steal lots of energy (used for skills) from foes.
Monks: Obviously the characters who heal.

Hopefully I didn't miss any out.

You can also get henchmen ("henchies" or computer controlled players) who fight with you. Or you can always go on the search list and get live players to join your pary. You can also trade items with other players or sell stuff to them for gold.

Gold is used for buying materials for armor, weapons, and other stuff for your characters.

There's also chat so you can talk with real players as you play and make online friends with them. If you want you can form a guild (hence the name Guild Wars) with a bunch of players, buy a guild hall to hang out in, and fight other guilds. You can make alliances with other guilds too then have alliance battles.

Great game
This is a really great game. As a dad, I appreciate the strategy and planning required to succeed in the game.
The good guy-bad guy dynamic is clearly delineated.

Also, I was glad that this was not a gory game. There is lots of fighting, but it is all bloodless.
Some of the costuming is inappropriate - and my son, of course, discovered quickly that he could strip down to his "boxers" and break dance in the street. But this was a minor negative.
We turned off the chat and only play with henchmen for filling out missions and that has avoided any unwanted language in the game.
When my character encountered the hunters and drank his first "hunter's ale" the screen blurred and the mouse became difficult to control. I actually considered that a good thing. In Icewind Dale, you could sit in a bar and drink dozens of rounds with no ill effect. This was more realistic - though they could have waited through two or three ales before blurring.

Overall, a very good game.