Guild Wars: Factions
by NCsoft
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Product Summary
Brand: NCsoftFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 875646000024
Publisher: NCsoft
Product features:
- 4 new distinct regions to explore
- 2 new professionsAssassin and Ritualistproviding 56 dual-class combinations
- 300 new skills to unlock and use
- 20 missions and over 200 quests
- Alliance battleslarge-scale PvP battles that allow factions to redraw the borders of the Canthan empire
Video Game Reviews of Guild Wars: Factions
Customer Review: Not bad, not great
Summary: 3 Stars
The great thing with any of the Guild Wars MMOs is that once you buy the game, you'd don't have to pay another cent, which really works on those months where the $14.99 you pay with others makes a difference in the budget. Now, you can spend more as the business model here is selling you upgrades (spell access, more bank slots, etc.) for real money. Pay a couple of bucks and you don't have to quest to get access to all those spells you want, pay a few more and get more bank slots to store stuff in. None of it's expensive, in fact, it's well priced, but do be aware of it when you buy the game - you don't *have* to pay more, you just probably will.
At it's core, this game is pretty much just a multi-player dungeon crawler. All the adventuring zones are instanced for your group and each zone has defined paths through it - even the outdoor zones are this way. Want to jump off that cliff? Nope. Swim that river? Not gonna happen. You'll go through the way the designers laid it out. Now, this is not always a bad thing - unlike WoW or EQ, you're not going to spend half your time trying to find the Loc of the NPC on some web page - you'll be herded right to it. The classes are nicely balanced for adventuring (if not always for PVP) and the graphics are nice - not quite as nice as say, EQ2, but more detailed than WoW. Also, the game designers did a very good job getting you up to speed with quests that naturally follow one another to get you leveled and decent equipment. Also, this game is a very good one for the soloer. When you go adventuring, you can choose to take along a group of NPCs - a ranger, a healer, and a caster for instance - that you can control and are part of your group. For the most part, they act pretty intelligently on their own in battle and it does make it more fun for the solo player.
In the end though, if you like the freedom to just run about doing many quests when and where you want and raiding that MOB for the uber-sword of mystic death, this game probably isn't for you. If, however, you like your dungeon crawler with a dash of MMO thrown in for spice, this might just be your game.
Description of Guild Wars: Factions
Two hundred years ago, the Betrayer, Shiro Tagachi, transformed the lush continent of Cantha into a devastated landscape of stone forests and crystalline seas. Now, in a land torn asunder by war, who you fight is as important as who you serve. While Kurzicks and Luxons battle for ever-decreasing resources, a horrible plague threatens the very existence of an empire still reeling from the betrayal that nearly destroyed it two centuries earlier.Join with players from around the world to battle for the future of Cantha--a complex empire dominated by bureaucracy and strife, living under the shadow of an ancient evil.
Guild Wars Factions is the second stand-alone release from developer ArenaNet, and features a new world, new mechanics, and new professions.
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