Guild Wars, a lengthy and well paced mmorpg. Although it suffers from a lack of features and limited gameplay, the aesth
When first loading up the game one thing is clear, the quality of the graphics is going to be excellent. The character selection and creation screen displays some visual eyecandy. I was however a bit dissapointed about the limitations of character creation, for example, there were no races also height and many other things were very limited, you could'nt make such a diverse lot of characters as you would hope. This becomes evident when first entering the world when everyone looks almost identical.
The controls were quite straight forward, the game centres around control by the mouse.This gives the game a "Neverwinter Nights" style of gameplay. The spells and abilities in Guild Wars are plentiful and displaying a wide range of effects, but the amount of armour and weapons available does get quite frustrating. A great feature of Guild Wars is the ability to create "guilds" easily. These "guilds" cost in-game resources and allow players to gather guild members and fight other guilds to gain a higher place in the tables.
The soundtrack is quite lush and entrancing but some of the skill sounds can get chewed up in large combats. In-game movies could maybe be spiced up a little, but this is possibly a reflection of linnear storyline. Although there is alot of twists minor conversations can get tiresome. The game does get harder as you progress, but it comes to a stand still around level 20 were you cannot really gain more experiance.
The fact that Guild Wars is a free mmorpg is really what gives it it's appeal, this however means that there is only space for 5 characters at a time. The other campaigns that you can buy seem to fix some of the minor problems with the game but if you're going to fork out £100 then I suggest even going just for a year subscribition to World of Warcraft.
Guilds Wars, from my point of view seems to be over rated and really should'nt be classed as an "rpg", there is very little roleplaying in it at all. The quality of the graphics does stand out as one of the best features of the game. If you like constant battles with monsters then this is the game for you.
You people better appreciate the time I took to write this [I used my Nintendo DS browser] !!!