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Amazon Minimum Age: 144 monthsBinding: DVD-ROM Brand: NC Interactive EAN: 0875646000017 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Item Dimensions: Label: NCsoft Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: NCsoft MPN: FG-XP-GW2ST-001 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: NCsoft Release Date: April 28, 2006 Studio: NCsoft Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Guild Wars: Factions is a stand-alone adventure you can play independently or as part of the Guild Wars world. The stand-alone Guild Wars: Factions is the second campaign in ArenaNet's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Explore an entire new continent, with a wide range of professions, skills, missions, and monsters. There are also new options for Cooperative and Player-versus-Player (PvP) play, and enhanced features for guilds. Amazon.com Product Description: When NCsoft released the original in 2005, it promised a revolution in Massively Multiplayer Online games: an online game with no monthly fees and completely standalone expansion packs. With simple gameplay, and endless multiplayer and solo options, the first game gained a devoted following of experienced and new players alike. Exactly one year later, Guild Wars Factions widens the horizons of Guild Wars, almost doubling the size of the world. The expansion pack offers whole new worlds to explore, and it doesn't require Guild Wars to play. Players can explore the new continent of Cantha by traveling from the lands of Tyria or they can travel in Cantha alone--and even those who only own one of the Guild Wars games can invite their friends to join their questing areas and share the game content without forcing each other to buy the other game.
Cantha's Warring Factions The expansion pack adds whole new ways to experience the game: alliances and factions. In Tyria, players banded together in small guilds and warred against each other, but Cantha is a land of much more complicated politics. Guilds can join together in alliances, align themselves with one of Cantha's two warring factions, and battle other alliances to gain and hold territory. The epic Faction Battles can change the face of Cantha in real time, shifting borders and changing the control of entire cities and towns as battles are won and lost. The Battle Isles play host to most of the new Player vs. Player content, providing alliances a huge battlefield to supplement the Tyrian arenas.
Alliances will also have access to two new kinds of missions, Alliance Missions and Elite Missions. Alliance Missions feature multiple teams battling for control over resources and strategic locations, earning faction points for their alliance. The best and most powerful alliances can venture on Elite Missions, which are designed to be the ultimate challenge for even the most experienced teams. New Player Options Solo players have not been neglected either, and those who choose to remain separate from alliance and faction politics still have a lot to enjoy in the expansion. Two new professions are available to the denizens of Cantha: the deadly Assassin and dark Ritualist. Assassins wield daggers with fatal precision and can teleport to strike down enemies up close, while Ritualists summon the spirits of the dead to control the battlefield. New faces, hair styles and armor sets give the two new professions their own distinct look, evoking the exotic feel of Cantha. To allow players to experience the new professions without deleting their old characters, four extra character slots will be added to players who have previously existing Guild Wars accounts.
While the level limit has not yet been raised from 20, players who still love the six professions from the core game have not been forgotten. Dozens of new skills are available for the older professions as well. Players have more options than ever before, and the new story missions and quest areas will test their ability to adapt to new styles and situations. Hundreds of all-new weapons, items and pets offer characters a huge amount of customization, and a new mission type will put each player's skill to the test. Challenge missions are cooperative missions with scoring objectives, and NCsoft will post the highest scores and display the rankings in-game, adding a new competitive element to the game that doesn't require direct combat. NCsoft has taken care to cater to their entire player base with Guild Wars Factions. Team players have new options that range from Braveheart-style mass PvP battles to the online RPG version of organized sporting events. Solo players and lone wolves have plenty of character customization to play with as well as the continuation of the Guild Wars story. Even those who only own Guild Wars Factions or Guild Wars can expand their game experience by sampling the content with players who own the other game, making Factions an expansion in the true sense: it broadens the horizons without being essential to enjoying the complete game. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - gw factionsFactions is a good game as an add on to the orginall guild wars group. these moduals can be ran with others or as a stand alone . factions should not be your first on though start with the origanl proficies or nightfall first then add factions for complete enjoyment Rating: - Expanding the Guild Wars experienceGuild Wars: Factions is the second Guild Wars campaign, and adds the continent of Cantha on a separate map from the original (Prophecies) campaign. The storyline is new, with only minor connections to Prophecies, and the areas and NPCs have a distinctly oriental appearance to them. Factions adds new PVP elements to the Guild Wars experience, new skills and classes, and faction allegiance elements. On the PVE side, Factions adds a new campaign and two new classes- the ritualist and the ... Read More Rating: - Review of Guild Wars: FactionsThis game is awesome. I suggest you start out with a Warrior/assassin. It's so much fun!!! Rating: - Decent addon to the Guild Wars franchiseThis is a good expansion to the Guild Wars experience. Along with a whole new continent to explore, you also get 2 new character types to use...the ritualist and the assassin. They key gameplay difference between this a the original Guild Wars is that you level MUCH quicker in this game. You can max out in several hours of playing time. This is because all of the missions and quests are much more difficult that in Prophecies and you will encounter many more high-level enemies in the beginning of ... Read More Rating: - Guild Wars RocksThis is arguably the best game of the Guild Wars series. Not only does it have great graphics like all the other games, the storyline is unique and it takes very surprising, unexpected turns...kinda like in a good book. The new content in this game is amazing, and the end-game gear is awesome. |
