Guild Wars

Publisher:
NCsoft

Release Date:
04-18-2005

Genre:
Massively Multiplayer Online / Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

ESRB Rating:
Teen

Description:
Guild Wars, a massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) with an emphasis on tactical combat. In single player, multiplayer and guild-based missions, players will explore a fantasy world while pursuing professions and gaining skills that help them develop and advance their unique character.

Guild Wars, the first title from Seattle-based ArenaNet, was founded by key members of the creative teams behind the hit games Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo, as well as Battle.net. Guild Wars offers cooperative group combat, single player missions, and large head-to-head guild battles. While each combat experience is different, achievements will be permanent so that the character grows and progresses over time. Unique items, special abilities, and a wide variety of skills add meaningful value for the player and for his or her comrades. Missions are not scripted adventures, but are
tactical battlegrounds where victory or loss is determined by skill and teamwork.

Meet your teammates or guild members, or head out on your own to one of several dozen Outposts. From there, learn your mission objectives and strategize to put together an effective war party. Assemble a cohesive fighting squad by capitalizing upon the skills and abilities of all members, taking advantage of a system built on fairness, where even the lower-level characters bring value to a party and where those with game skills hold more value and play a more vital role than those with just game hours. Whether fighting against the savage monsters that inhabit the world and its changing environment, or battling another team who shares your fervor to achieve victory, the challenges of the game world will engross you. And this all takes place in a 3D game world of great depth and beauty.