Guild Wars: Factions
Players from around the world to battle for the future of Cantha—a complex empire dominated by bureaucracy and strife, living under the shadow of an ancient evil. You must find a way to defeat Shiro and his…
Guild Wars: Factions is an adventure developed by ArenaNet, released 28 April 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Guild Wars: Factions is
Guild Wars: Factions is an adventure game developed by ArenaNet and released in 2006. It was published by NCSOFT. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on ArenaNet Guild Wars.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two hundred years ago, the Betrayer, Shiro Tagachi, transformed the lush continent of Cantha into a devastated landscape of stone forests and crystalline seas. Now, in a land torn asunder by war, who you fight is as important as who you serve. While Kurzicks and Luxons battle for ever-decreasing resources, a horrible plague threatens the very existence of an empire still reeling from the betrayal that nearly destroyed it two centuries earlier.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, educational and fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 24 players online, and includes co-op. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer.
Where it sits in the Guild Wars series
Guild Wars: Factions is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Guild Wars series. The next entry was Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns - Deluxe Edition in 2015.
How it was received
Guild Wars: Factions holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Pentium III 800 Mhz or equivalent, 256 MB RAM and ATI® Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA® GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Guild Wars: Factions launched on 28 April 2006, within three weeks of New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Guild Wars: Factions yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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