Guild Wars 2 Diary

Step aside, TERA, there’s a new MMORPG in town. Guild Wars 2 is the very definition of the term long awaited, with thousands of people spending hours and hours pawing their way through interviews, screenshots and trailers looking for a nugget of excitement they haven’t relived a million times before. Thankfully, it delivers – it really, really does. How does extended play work out though? Is it something worth buying now? The answer to that latter question is pretty obvious if you’ve seen the gaming charts lately, or if you’ve bothered to read any of the thousands of professional/amateur reviews available on the internet since launch. This is the first in our new weekly series on Guild Wars 2. In it we’re going to examine the world, the characters, the people and the culture, hopefully learning a little bit about what makes it such an exciting game. Where’s the best place to start? The beginning of course: from character creation onwards.