Guild Wars 2 Is An Mmo Quite Unlike Any Other One On The Market

Guild Wars 2 is an MMO quite unlike any other one on the market

, which breaks from what's considered the "norm" when it comes to the MMO genre. It's a game that puts the massively multiplayer back in massively multiplayer online role-playing game. A game where social interaction is stressed and you're free to play the game how you want in a myriad of ways. For all its strengths, however, is Guild Wars 2 the "revolution" it claims and the one that gamers want?

Players begin their Guild Wars 2 adventure in the character creation system, where you'll first choose your starting race and what profession you're going to be. The game features five different races: the Asura (small gremlin/goblin looking creatures), the Sylvari (humanoid plants), Humans (duh), the Norn (taller than usual humans basically), and the Charr (cat-like creatures of evil). After choosing your race it's time for your profession, and unlike some other games in the genre, there are no restrictions when it comes to what race can be what profession. For example, the Charr isn't the first race you'd think of when it comes to playing a magic-wielding character, but you can go against type and play that exact character if that's what you want. The professions include: Engineer (uses guns and various turrets and gadgets to do battle with), Necromancer (does battle using deathly powers), Thief (quick and sneaky), Elementalist (wields the four forces of nature), Warrior (charges in swinging wildly), Ranger (a long-distance hunter who can mix it up close), Mesmer (specializes in illusion magic), and Guardian (frontline offense that takes a licking and keeps on ticking).

Once those two choices are made you're allowed to tweak your character's look using a system that is fairly robust, though not necessarily the best on the market. You'll start by picking pre-made options for things such as face, hairstyle, and skin pattern, and then be able to tweak and adjust elements of your character such as how high your nose sits, how big your ears are, and other such features as you see fit. Guild Wars 2 features a lot of color customization options, allowing you to change the color of your skin, the color of your hair, and primarily the color of your equipment as armor you get conforms itself to the colors you chose. You can find dyes to change appearances after initially choosing a color palate for your character, but I personally like the fun of a game pre-coloring armor and letting me discover what it looks like when equipped; choosing your own color scheme just gives you a lot of outfits that look the exact same in many ways.

Character creation continues through a series of questions, which all goes towards putting you in your Personal Story, which is your own, customized story to take you through the heart of the game's "main story." It's a different take on storytelling and one that I think works very well for the most part. Unlike many games in the genre where there are one or two stories that play out depending on whether you're on the side of good or evil and all secondary characters will follow that exact same story to the letter, in Guild Wars 2 I could make two Norn Mesmers, for example, and as long as I chose different answers I'd get different story missions as I advance through the game. For that matter, I could create two Norn Mesmers, pick the exact same choices, and still get a different story at certain branches. One of my initial Personal Story choices had me seeing a vision of a warrior wearing emerald armor, but had I chose differently I'd never experienced this first storyline of the game, and would have instead got something different. Furthermore, as the game progressed, I was offered how I wanted to approach a quest given the situation; would I go rescue the maker of the armor or go to the woman he has a crush on and have her trick him into weakening himself so that she could get revenge on him. The only drawback to the Personal Story system is that while it certainly lends itself to role-playing, at times I couldn't help but feel that the world was missing the epic grandeur of a main, world quest.

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