Guild Wars Eye of the North review for the PC

Guild Wars is an MMO for people who don't really have time for an MMO - you can dip in and out of Guild Wars without giving over your whole life to it, and it's possible to play large chunks of it as a single player, too. If you've given over enough time to reach level 20, then there's a new expansion pack in Eye of the North, with extra content and a whole new storyline to complete. This is likely to be the last new outing in the original Guild Wars universe before Guild Wars 2 is released - find out if it's worth the trip in our full Guild Wars: Eye of the North review now!
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Guild Wars Eye of the North review for the PC
If you haven't dabbled with Guild Wars before, it's the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game you can play between other games without ruining your life. Designed to be dipped in and out of without laborious rat-killing – or a subscription fee – it's arguably the acceptable face of the genre. Following a number of themed campaigns, Eye Of The North is an expansion pack with new content only accessible to level 20 characters.

That content kicks off with rumblings underfoot, accompanied by screen-shaking effects, resulting in a fissure in the surface of the earth caused by a massive quake. Naturally you are charged with the task of exploring it, and having put together a merry band of heroes, down you go. For a multiplayer game, finding human players willing to join you is a largely thankless task, as they all seem to have their own agenda, mainly involving trading things with impenetrable abbreviations.