Guild Wars Factions
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Video Game Reviews of Guild Wars Factions
Customer Review: Maybe it's too good. Only kidding.
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased the game for my 13 year old nephew. A week later received an email in which he apologized for not writing sooner to thank me, but he was having too much fun with the game I bought him. No doubt there is a political life in his future.Customer Review: guild wars is great
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this game for my 16 years old son as a gift and he says that it is a great game.
this is the said son))
Guild Wars is a great game, with it's many different job class combinations, large map and quests. it can keep you entertained for quite a lond time. If you can though get Prophecies before Factions since Prophecies has more of an introductary nature when it starts out.
Customer Review: Ritualists ruined pvp Random Arena
Summary: 2 Stars
The ritualist is one of the new professions that comes with factions. It is the only profession that allows you to create multiple spirits that do damage, blind, interrupt, heal, evade melee, steal health, knock downs and other things. Its an army all it self. So instead of 4v4 in random arena you and up with 4v5 or even 4v6. Customer Review: Factions: Love it or Hate it.
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first popped in Factions I was expecting the beautiful, colorful Guildwars world I know and love. This game only brought some of that "epic adventuring". Co-op play is still the same, which is good, but I didn't really feel myself getting into the "gloomier" world of factions. A must have for Guild Wars fans, but not for those who play the game on the side.Customer Review: A rather lacklustre MMORPG
Summary: 2 Stars
I actually bought Factions about the same time I bought WoW, thinking I'd like to get into this MMORPG thing; and WoW and GW being the biggest MMORPGs it seemed like a fair deal.
I will admit that for a time I did enjoy playing Factions but I really strain to say anything very good about it. My biggest gripe is the economy. If you're going to try and accumulate any amount of gold prepare to sell almost exclusively to other players, as quests and vendors give a paltry sum of money. The sense of reward versus the difficulty of the quest or mission really does feel horribly disproportionate.
Now, this wouldn't be too bad save for the fact that most skills (and in particular the higher level skills) are purchased. So...I need to purchase skills. And yet the quests don't give near enough to allow me to purchase them. Right.
I also get the feeling that there is a very strong leaning towards the PvP side of things, which is something that really doesn't interest me. Unless you've played for countless hundreds of hours you're likely to be styled as a 'noob'.
Again, this wouldn't be so bad if the PvE experience was, well, a little more entertaining. Henchmen (AI controlled allies) can very often be of little use, running off to dispatch with the nearest monster, unless specifically dictated, and even then this is rather limited.
Other players can be useful, but again these tend to be people who put a lot of time in and expect those they accompany to be of equal profeciency.
I've played most of the way through the main quest, but the frustratingly difficult missions and now the impossibility of actually getting to the next area have lead me to abandon it. Eight people in a group just does not cut it.
And, as another reviewer pointed out, aside from the PvP element there isn't much replayability.
Maybe I come off as being a little harsh, and perhaps I am, but I really do feel cheated of a decent gameplay experience. I don't have hundreds of hours to spend looking for rare item drops and then trying to hawk them off on other players, to get the gold to get the skills, to kill the enemies to do it all over again.
I suppose the only good thing, in this light, that the whole Guild Wars series has going for it is the lack of a monthly fee. Which, for me, doesn't make up for the lack of gameplay.