Guild Wars: Eye Of The North - Expansion Pack
Guild Wars: Eye of the North is the first expansion for Guild Wars with content geared exclusively for level 20 characters. Return to the battle-scarred continent of Tyria, the home of the original Guild Wars game. There, old friends await, ready to assist you in settling past scores. But an even greater threat looms... The land has erupted, spewing forth a race of beings with only one thought?destroy everything. Win or lose, your actions will set the stage for Guild Wars 2. DVD-ROM for use with Windows
Guild Wars: Eye Of The North - Expansion Pack Accessories
 Guild Wars Nightfall
Guild Wars Factions
Guild Wars
PC Guild War Nightfall
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Guild Wars Trilogy
Pure
Heavenly Sword
Far Cry 2
Guild Wars: Eye Of The North - Expansion Pack Reviews
I don't have the time and I don't like to leave Guildwars running on my computer all day. Therefore the first time, you can be sure to get killed without finishing the quest (if not several times). I have both the Prophesies and Nightfall campaigns and those are both great, especially Nightfall, but by the time you get about half way through the Eye of the North it gets extremely hard and the missions/quests are insanely long. To me this was made for the hardcore gamer that wants to be extremely challenged.
It takes about 2 to 3 hours to get through a dungeon. This is extremely frustrating after putting in several hours. I also think the scenery in the dungeons is mostly repetitive rock, lava, ruins, etc.
If and when you get to the boss at the end, you have to use some special method of defeating them, which you can't figure out unless you get to this boss at least once and be sure to do research online to find out what others have tried.
Of course, there are new skills and titles to acquire, too, along with a number of new heroes (the NPC allies first developed in Nightfall). The story, about an ancient menace from the depths, felt a little weaker than the main games' storylines, but it's serviceable. Considering there's no subscription fee, it's a pretty reasonable amount of new content for the price but I'd get the base campaigns first. Eye of the North adds a large map area filled with high-level monsters, challenging dungeons, and a number of quests. Unfortunately, it's also rather short compared to any of the campaigns.
The numerous dungeons add a bit more play time, though. This is the only true expansion pack of the Guild Wars series, in that it doesn't stand alone you need to have at least one of the three "campaigns" (Prophecies, Factions, or Nightfall) in order to play it. It's pretty quick to complete (if you can deal with the difficulty).
I own all of the Guild Wars collection at the moment and have to say, they are all pretty good. All in all the game is fun. GWEN is technically an "expansion" upon prophecies since it incorporates unused parts of the original map. However it has a very separate storyline that integrates very well with the Prophecies storyline that will make you say "oh so that's what happened to those characters".
I do think this expansion is worthwhile, but if someone were to ask me in what order to buy all 4 of the series, I would say any order as long as this is the last one. -New items and consumables. -In my opinion the scenery and environments are better in this. More time than I can dedicate to the game. -New title track skills (like Ursan). I'm tired of typing so here comes the breakdown in pros and cons:.
But way less for the casual player than the other three campaigns. Because this is an expansion you do have to own at least one of the other campaigns to install this one. Dungeon mission just seem to drag on because of this. However, if I had to pick a least favorite GWEN would be it.
Anyway, I really liked this expansion mainly because of the new heroes, and the additional title track skills you can acquire. I've always been kind of bummed by Guild wars linear(ness) do to impassably terrains and the lack of jumping ability, and the dungeons restrict your options of path choice even more. -Some of the mission are just down right impossible.with or without real people as teammates. Pros.
-The titles take a lot of time in game play to advance. -I am not not not a fan of the dungeons. -Awesome new heroes. Cons.
I'm not a hard core gamer and when I play an RPG I like to explore and do quests without having to die a million times and ended up failing. Playing a game is supposed to have fun but this one leaves me angry. This game, although graphically decent looking, is impossibly hard that it always left me cursing and frustrated. I wished the developer could have put an option like any other normal RPG games where players could choose "Easy", "Normal" or "Expert" mode.
Definitely purchase from this seller. Sells for 49.00 on guildwars website. One of the best games I've ever played. Expansion pack sells for under 20 dollars here. Expansion pack is a must.
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