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First off, what is an MMORPG? A MMORPG is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game is one where you connect exclusively to a server and play online with other people from all around the world. You level up together (if you are in the same group), work together on problems and share the rewards.

Guild Wars is a game I've been playing for around 2 years. For me it has the novelty of being able to submerse yourself in another culture, like many other games. With thousands of people online at any one time you can easily find a group of like minded souls and go off and adventure, capture a skill, level up, complete missions or quests.

So what does Guild Wars offer?
Well Guild Wars is a unique game for its time as you don't need to pay a subscription each month to keep playing. As a one off payment for the expansions allow this game to carry on into the foreseeable future. This is a big lure for many people who either can't afford the 9.99 a month that most games require, or don't want to be bothered to pay it.

The game depth and its scope are truly massive. You start out in a newbie area (Pre-Seers) with a few very low level monsters, you can level up a few times and explore an area that is a light more easy going than the rest of the game and prepares you for the battles ahead. When you are ready, you can advance to the next stage of the game which is a couple of years into the future (Post-Seers) where the monsters are harder and the missions and quests ramp up quite quickly and soon span a whole continent of the world.

The graphics are average, with few attempts at anything superb or mind blowing. The game designers have gone for a somewhat basic design to keep the game focused on the actual game play and replayability factor. They have recently given the game a boost in all expansions and the original game by adding lip sync to all characters in cut scenes. The cut scenes themselves are of poor quality and really should have been done more like Diablo 2 with impressive animation and good voice acting. This is probably the worst part of Guild Wars as the average graphics really show through. The Alpha Channels are of poor quality and the grass and trees often show signs of being the gif's that they are. Overall compared to games like Morrowind (cue applause) and Unreal Tournament, that are older games with superior graphics, Guild Wars doesn't shape up.

In game items are items that are dropped by monsters or acquired by completing missions. If you are in a group,

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