Guild Wars synopsis:

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates some of the more tedious aspects 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 Guild Wars quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you; with the dynamic quest system, your accomplishments have a unique influence on your future.

You don't have to spend countless hours on a leveling treadmill to get to the interesting parts of the game, because combat is designed to be strategically interesting and challenging right from the beginning. You don't have to spend hours running around the world to prepare for a quest, because Guild Wars allows you to instantly travel to the beginning of any quest that you've previously unlocked. You'll never spend days playing, only to discover that the choices you made early have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character. The unique skill system in Guild Wars encourages infinite experimentation but doesn't allow early choices to limit a character. And you'll never meet new players only to discover that you can't play with them or compete against them because their characters are on a different server than yours or they have a different chapter of the game; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.

I know I know, this is not first person shooter, but sometimes you get tired of playing same ole games and want something different. You know when you having one of those days , you are with your buddies on skype or teamspeak going: "What you wanna do?, don't know, but how bout you?" to each other. Or you just can't sleep so you trying to do something that doesn't really require you to twich and jump in your seat.

Also I find Guild Wars pretty close to a first person shooter in comparison to other role playing games. I'm not 12 years old and I do have to work, so I can't spend 24 hours a day just farming for points like I've seen people do in games like ...ahem... Warcraft, Everquest and so on.

What I like about Guild Wars that the game looks very beautiful even on my laptop with factory video card it looks amazing. It's almost like a role playing version of Half Life 2- it will play on any PC and still will look very good. The only machine I wasn't able to make it work is on a E-machine from Dell , the one that sells for $399.00 , but nobody really expected any game that requires 3D rendering to work on those type of machines?? Right??

Again, the best part that you do not have to farm for points, this game really forces you to join groups to finish missions to move on to the next part on the map. You basically go from safe town to town and explorere a huge never ending world. You talk to in  game characters and you find or kill things or do missions for them and they award you with experience points or skills. After first part of the game you will find monsters and missions getting harder and harder, so if you've been doing them by yourself, you would be forced to start looking for other people to join your missions, which is very easy to do. You will find in almost every town people looking for other people for quests.

Difference between quests and missions, that quests actually take you from one town to another town and with that the storyline continues, while missions make you explorer the world and gain extra skills and points and develop your character. By the way, each quest has a main goal and a bonus point. You don't have to do bonus right away and usually its hidden inside the quest itself, so you can always go back and try finishing the bonus.

The world is really big and now there are two expansions that you can combine with the existing map and add some new skill features to your character. You also level off at level 20 max, which lots of hardcore Everquest gamers don't like, but I like to be able to top out and concentrate on my missions and quests and getting extra skill points. Closer to the end of the game, you have a chance to ascend by Gods looking at you and a big fight with yourself. Once you ascended you can change your secondary profession. I know I forgot to mention, but once you choose your primarty character like say "Warrior" you can also go for secondary proffession for example "Elementalist" so you will be Warrior/Elementalist.  After ascending you can switch for example to Warrior/Necromancer, the good thing you can always switch to the previous choice because you keep all the skills and points from the previous choice.

I did the same thing like everybody else and switched my secondry profession but later on I changed back. I'm now level 20 tank or Warrior/Elementalist, love those fire spells while I'm chopping monsters to pieces. I'm also now exploring the world with my buddies and finishing up the areas I ran through and finishing the bonuses I never completed. So if you're not sure what new game to get and want to try something new, get Guild Wars , looke me up , I'm under "Sir Kommy" name and join my "Guild About Nothing" = "GAN" if you want a nice shiny guild cape.

Did I tell you that you can also play against other guilds in deathmatches, competitions, and Capture the Flag games???

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