Guild Wars Factions Platinum Edition

Two great games...one incredible journey...twice the adventure!

Join millions of players in one of the most popular games of all time. The adventure begins with the award-winning Guild Wars, the revolutionary online RPG with no subscription fees. The story continues with more role-playing options in Guild Wars: Factions.

Whether battling hordes of monster or fighting in competitive tournaments in Guild Wars, your skill will always decide your fate!  Two hundred years ago, the hatred and fury of a traitor changed the continent of Cantha forever.  Now, in Guild Wars: Fractions, the malignant spirit of Shiro Tagachi has returned.  Defend Cantha against this new menace as you explore its jade seas, petrified forests and teeming cities.

• Guild Wars
• Guild Wars: Factions

Guild Wars

Your skill will be your legend.  You'll prove your worth with every battle as skill, not hours played, decides your fate.  Whether battling horrific monsters or competing at the highest levels of tournament play, it will always be your skill that earns your victory or defeat.  Are you up to the challenge?

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today's massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past. Within a quest you have unprecedented freedom and power to manipulate the world around you: your magic can build bridges and open up new pathways, or it can burn down forests and tear the ground asunder.

You don't have to spend countless hours on a leveling treadmill to get to the interesting parts of the game, because combat is designed to be strategically interesting and challenging right from the beginning. You don't have to spend hours running around the world to prepare for a quest, because Guild Wars allows you to instantly travel to the beginning of any quest that you've previously unlocked. You'll never spend days playing only to discover that choices you made early on have left you with a permanently uncompetitive character, because the unique skill system in Guild Wars allows infinite experimentation but doesn't allow bad decisions to ruin a character. And you'll never meet new players only to discover that you can't play with them or compete against them because their characters are on a different server than yours; in Guild Wars, all characters live in one seamless world.

Features:

• Explore 6 Distinct Regions of Tyria:  Complete 25 Missions and over 200 quests leading you from the Ruins of Ascalon through the snowy Shiverpeak Mountains and lush Maguuma Jungle, into the arid Crystal Desert, and then on to the hellish Fire Island chain.
• 6 Core Professions to Choose and Combine:  Choose your primary and secondary professions from Elementalist, Mesmer, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, and Warrior, providing 30 different character combinations to try.
• Over 450 Skills to Unlock and Use:  Create your own distinct combination of 8 skills to bring you victory.
• International Competition:  Play solo or join with friends to ascend as a team and win fame and prizes in global tournaments.

Guild Wars: Factions

The stand-alone Guild Wars: Factions is the second campaign in ArenaNet's massively multiplayer online RPG, The Factions campaign, which can be played either connected with the regular Guild Wars or as its own separate game. Guild Wars Factions takes place on the continent of Cantha, where new and existing Guild Wars players join an epic quest to defeat an ancient evil and save a war-torn empire.

New scored challenge missions and strategic competitive missions allow players to test their role-playing prowess and earn the right for their alliance to take control of cities, towns and outposts. Large-scale alliance battles pit teams from opposing factions against each other in a struggle to conquer new territory and redraw the battle lines across the continent of Cantha. New elite missions allow the most skilled players exclusive access to areas of the ultimate cooperative challenge.

A Whole New Game - Enter an epic where every mission is created just for you.  Play as a stand-alone game, or combine with the original prophecies campaign for even more role-playing options.

A Continent torn Asunder - Two hundred years ago the continent of Cantha was forever changed by the hatred and fury of a traitor brought to justice.  Now, in the midst of a brutal civil war, the malignant spirit of the traitor Shirto Tagachi has returned to complete the destruction he began.  Join more than one million players around the world to defend Cantha against this new menace as you explore its jade seas, petrified forests, and lush urban cities.  This time, it's up to you!

Features

• Play new story-driven missions and quests, or try the exciting new mission types!
• More than 50 locations to challenge players of all levels
• New weapons and runes to master and command
• More than 100 new monsters to slay plus new pets to do your bidding
• 150 skill for the new professions plus 150 new skills for the six Guild Wars core professions
• Two completely new character types: the Assassin and Ritualist. Both of these characters should provide new ways for old players to experience the game and more choice for those that have never stepped into ArenaNet's fantasy universe.
• Strategy Victory Competitive Missions:  Multiple teams compete to control resource points and achieve strategic victory.
• Scored and Ranked Challenge Missions: Become an alliance champion with high scores in re-playable missions scored on speed, kills, and damage.
• Redraw the Map in Alliance Battles: Large-scale strategic PvP battles pit alliances against one another in a bid to conquer new territory for their faction.
• Exclusive Elite Missions: The most powerful alliance earn access to exclusive missions designed to challenge even the most advanced gamers.

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista
• Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or equivalent processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 4 GB available Hard Disk space
• DirectX 8
• DVD-ROM drive
• ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64 MB of VRAM
• 16-bit Sound Card
• Internet Connection
• Keyboard
• Mouse