Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is an online role-playing game with fast-paced action combat, a rich and detailed universe of stories, awe-inspiring landscapes to explore, two challenging player vs. player modes, and no…
Guild Wars 2 is an adventure developed by ArenaNet, released 25 August 2012 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play. The main story takes about 91 hrs to finish.
What Guild Wars 2 is
Guild Wars 2 is an adventure game developed by ArenaNet and released in 2012. It was published by NCSOFT. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ArenaNet Guild Wars.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your story begins the moment you bring your character to life. When you create your character, you’ll choose from a range of biographical options that reflect their personality, history, and how they see the world. This biography will set you down a story path, which offers you choices to make. Your decisions will take the story in different directions. The race you choose for your character determines which of the five massive home cities they’ll begin their story in. Your personal story will guide you through private, instanced chapters that explore your character’s life and adventures as they shape their own destiny. If you need a little help, you can always invite friends along to…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.
How it was received
Guild Wars 2 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 332 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 91 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® i3 3.4 GHz / AMD Athlon x4 3.8 GHz or better, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 70GB.
What it launched against
Guild Wars 2 launched on 25 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and FTL: Faster Than Light. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, FTL: Faster Than Light.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Guild Wars 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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