you may love it, you may hate it, you may not care, so might as well try it
ok now that that's done:
Guild Wars had been praised and critized by many for a long time now for different reasons. I myself like the fact that there is no online fee, that there is a sense of balance between classes, and that my necro can do so many different things( blood spike, MM, SS/SV,55,battery,tainted,orders.....).
My olny complaint is that I got to lvl 20 before I hit lions arch. I like the whole everyone is equal stats wise but 20 is a bit to low 30 wold have been nice so im not max lvl 1/2 way into the game.
Factions is a little different then Prohecies in th sense that you get most of your skills from bosses and traders then quest, which was done to make people's builds more unique. another thing is that all the mission's i went through were ranked by time instead of haveing a bonus objective. You are also rushed to lvl 20 alot faster it seems. I like the story more this time around mostly because I'm still following it cause my group in the past made me skip scenes. The game added 2 or 3(i forgot) new missions types and made 2 team co-op missions. The competive missions are basically a PVP macth with Luxon vs Kurzick. The challange missions are scored or something but i havnt seen one yet. They also added Titles to the whole game so you don't need to buy factions for them. They are basically just bragging rights , but its nice to see how much of the world you've covered and stuff. Scriamge mode was also added(again factions not req.) and that is really fun(GVG with ur guildies 1v1 2v2 8v8 what ever you want). I would say something about Alliance
The new classes seemed balanced(time will tell) and add more verieity to the game. The whole asian theme was well done and the new enviroments look great. Music is still good and the new interfaces look nice. The biggest strength of Factions is how it compliments Prohecies. Its weak point is that the map is smaller than Prohecies, but it has more depth. I think the Luxon and Kurzick should have had more space for more fighting between them.
Basically if you really like Guild Wars or want to get into it you should at least try it out. Don't let reviews sway you to much (mostly the ammature reviews like this) Guild Wars is a game that you have to accauly play a while to make your opion. This is very much a user friendly game once you know what your doing. I think the people who don;t like it alot are mostly people used to big MMO's which is fine cause if i was rich enoguh to pay for it I would be playing WOW right now. This may be to early for a review but I looks great so far