Guild Wars Reviews

ArenaNet’s recently launched Guild Wars continues to receive high review scores, with two more popping up over the past few days. The first is at ESCmag with an overall score of 9/10:

There’s really a lot to cover about Guild Wars and while I could keep going, the game is best experienced than read about. With no monthly subscription fee, dynamically added content, and solo/team play, there’s really no excuse not to dive right in. You won’t have the added expense, besides the initial cost of the game, and the community is strong and growing daily. The low level cap may be a minor discouragement, but casual, two-hours-a-day players will take months to reach that goal while hardcore players can delve into PvP battles until new content is added. If you have the extra money, the Collector’s Edition boasts a soundtrack, art book, and microphone for voice chat, as well as the game itself. Guild Wars has something for everyone right out of the box, so why not give the year’s best online RPG a chance?

And the second is at GamePro with an overall score of 4.0/5:

One area where Guild Wars sets itself apart from other MMOs are the environments; they are flat-out the most impressive, especially when seeing that even lower-end rigs can run the game at a respectable frame rate. On the down side, character models all look generically super model-like–and since there’s no other race to choose from than humans, you’re stuck in a world where everybody has the same, sculpted build.

Guild Wars isn’t perfect, but with no subscription fees and occasional free updates (in addition to paid-expansions), it’s a bargain.