Guild Wars World Preview Event Details

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 27, 2004 @03:45AM from the fighting-elementals-is-pretty-cool dept.

Beginning this weekend is another chance for prospective players to check out Guild Wars, the upcoming free MMOG by ArenaNet and NCSoft. If you're interested you can download the client in preparation for this Friday's event kickoff. Gamerfeed has some details on what to expect in the preview, while Gamespy has details from the first preview and an update since then. Finally, reader Detritus wrote in to tell us about two Stratics guides to prepare you for the event, one on Player vs. Player strategy and the other on Player vs. Environment elements of the game.

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Re:Compliments for "no monthly payments" by Rallion · 2004-10-27 05:47 · Score: 4, Informative

As others have said, it doesn't really fit into the mold of traditional MMORPGs. If I understand it right, the towns are what you'd expect. Filled with people and shop owners. But then, to fight mosters and level, you make a party and go into an instance together. In essence, you're joining a Diablo II game. The big town is really just like the bNet chat area.

Still, I like it. Just wanted to make sure that was clear.