Your enjoyment of Eye of the North will depend largely on your own personal desire to collect trinkets and doo-dads while following a reasonably interesting story. That and perhaps the desire to get a head start on Guild Wars 2. Either way, Eye of the North is high-level content that’s enjoyable, but really nothing that special.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
ArenaNet Inc. · Aug 28, 2007
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Set largely in the dungeons and caverns of the lands of Tyria that players first explored in Guild Wars Prophecies, Guild Wars Eye of the North has 18 multi-level dungeons, 150 skills across all 10 Guild Wars professions, 10 new Heroes, 40 new armor sets, and even more items, weapons and titles.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North is designed to be playable as long as gamers have the full version of any of the Guild Wars titles: Guild Wars: Prophecies, Guild Wars: Factions or Guild Wars: Nightfall.
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8.0
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- 8.2Ah, expansion packs. So easy to damn with faint praise, so hard to damn. The content counts and here - at least mostly - Guild Wars excels. Based around instanced private areas as it is, more scripting can come into play, and with three packs' experience, there's some genuinely imaginative stuff to get stuck into.
- 8.5The game still is linear in the path you take through it, but GWEN is terrific fun. You will need to learn squad management skills a bit better, but you are driven to do so by the flow of the story. Great graphics, great sound, great adventure – GWEN is a first-rate expansion.
- 8.0Yet as always, the action itself is visceral and exciting, which isn't exactly something that can be said about the combat in most RPGs. It's also remarkably tactical, requiring smart choices that enable you to take just the right eight skills into battle. This is the stuff that makes the expansion worth every penny, and reminds us that getting more of the same can (albeit rarely) be a wonderful thing. If you're still playing Guild Wars, Eye of the North is an easy purchasing choice because it was made just for you, and it rarely disappoints.
- 7.9Guild Wars is one of the most flexible games out there. It's an online RPG that can be played as a single-player game. It's a dungeon crawler and a vicious PvP contest. Yet its PvE content that's designed to be played for hours on end doesn't provide as many rewards for dedicated play compared to other games of this type. The core gameplay, which remains unchanged for Eye of the North, is still a lot of fun.
- 9.0The game comes with a brief complimentary trial period for Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall. But MMO fans should sample the original Guild Wars: Prophecies to see if it's heavily instanced take on MMORPGs is their cup of tea before jumping in blind with Eye of the North.
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