Guild Wars 2

A shot in the arm for massive multiplayer online gaming.

Subscription-free online role-playing game makes a surprise appearance on the Mac.

Guild Wars, the hugely successful subscription-free fantasy MMO, now has its first sequel: Guild Wars 2. The developers promise a divergence from traditional MMO formulas, including those used by the original. Does this new direction herald a new era...

As a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Guild Wars 2 enters a much changed marketplace since the original was released in 2005. The monthly subscription model is no longer king with most new games now using a free to play setup. Even those...

Mainstream pants for the masses. Broken economy from the outset, no click to move, many broken promises from what was envisaged.

It was a good game, lot of potential. The premises (and prOmises) were amazing: No grinding, no gating... Sure, it would have needed some bit of changes and fixes here and there (the greatest being the lacking of a proper LFG tool), but it was overall...

The quick version, ArenaNet nailed it.

Guildwars 2 has been a very highly anticipated game and thankfully it has very little wrong with it from my point of view. Since i have yet to reach end game do please take my review with a pinch of salt.

This shall not be a long review or a bias one. I have played mmos for nearly 8 years and played FFXI, wow, LOTRO, and more.

I am into MMORPGs, I play World of Warcraft, but if you are wondering wheather MMORPGs are for you then this is your game. The story is epic and the gameplay is good. It follows the same system that most MMORPGs follow, i.e you have a bar with skills...