Geek Syndicate Issue 5 | Page 72

Geek Syndicate
VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Guild Wars 2: 250 Hours In ...
ly Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs): I’ve dabbled with a lot of them but never really seem to stick at them. Star Wars Galaxies was fun but by the time I got there everyone had left. I spent most of my time in World of Warcraft getting killed by others, DC Universe got very repetitive very quickly, Vanguard and Age of Conan never really got me hooked and one day I’ll go back to Star Wars: The Old Republic now it is free to play. The only MMO I have stuck with is Guild Wars, it was my first and I’ve always loved the world it is in and the general feel of the game, so naturally I was excited when in 2007 NCSoft announced there would be a sequel. Five years later it finally arrived but was it worth the wait? and more importantly is worth the money? As of the end of 2012 I’ve racked up around two-hundred and fifty hours of gameplay on it and have one character to the
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maximum level of eighty.

Backstory
Guild Wars 2 is set in the world of Tyria, two and a half centuries after the defeat of the Great Destroyer, which happens in Eye of the North, the final expansion of the original Guild Wars games. The five Elder Dragons have awoken and caused chaos and destruction and new races have migrated into the one human dominated Tyria. (I’ll tell you more about them later) Cantha and Elona (continents from the Factions and Nightfall expansions) are now cut off from Tyria and the fallen kingdom of Orr has re-emerged with the awakening of the undead Elder Dragon, Zhaitan. Your character is tasked with reuniting the members of an adventuring guild called Destiny’s Edge and the destruction of Zhaitan.
Image © NCSoft, 2012

Publisher: NC Soft

Enter a living, breathing fantasy world Guild Wars 2 defines the future of online roleplaying games with action-oriented combat, customized personal storylines, epic dynamic events, world-class PvP, and no subscription fees!

I don’t “play” many Massive-

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