Description
Guild Wars: Eye of the North is the first true expansion to the Guild Wars series of games in that it is not a self-contained chapter. Now as a prerequisite, the player need to own one of the previous
Guild Wars games (Guild Wars: Prophecies, Guild Wars: Factions or Guild Wars: Nightfall) in order to play.
It offers high-level content in the form of quests and dungeons and as such is only accessible to level 20 characters. The game is set chronologically, 6 years after the events in Guild Wars: Prophecies and sees characters returning to the continent of Tyria. Creatures known as "Destroyers" are appearing from the depths of the world and are threatening to wipe out civilization.
The player needs to seek out the help of the Ebon Vanguard, the Norn and the Asura to help defeat this threat and does so by earning reputation with them through the completion of quests and mini-games.
Alternate Titles
- "拡張版「新たなる予言」" -- Japanese Guild Wars In-Game Store spelling
- "GWEN" -- Common abbreviation
- "Guild Wars: Eye of the North. Русская версия" -- Russian spelling
- "Eye of the North" -- English/French/German/Italian/Spanish/Polish/Russian Guild Wars In-Game Store title
- "EotN" -- Common abbreviation
Part of the Following Groups
User Reviews
The Press Says
| GameStar (Germany) |
Sep 26, 2007 |
91 out of 100 |
91 |
| Game Captain |
Sep 11, 2007 |
86 out of 100 |
86 |
| GameZone |
Sep 25, 2007 |
8.5 out of 10 |
85 |
| Game Chronicles |
Oct 16, 2007 |
8.5 out of 10 |
85 |
| MMORPG.com |
Nov 10, 2011 |
8.3 out of 10 |
83 |
| PC Games (Germany) |
Oct 04, 2007 |
83 out of 100 |
83 |
| PC Gameplay (Benelux) |
Oct, 2007 |
82 out of 100 |
82 |
| GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands) |
Sep 19, 2007 |
82 out of 100 |
82 |
| Legendra |
Jun 09, 2009 |
  |
80 |
| GameSpy |
Sep 24, 2007 |
 |
70 |
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Trivia
While
EotN might sound like a more appropriate common abbreviation of
Guild Wars: Eye of the North, there is actually a little story behind
GWEN.
GWEN stands not just for
Guild Wars: Eye of the North, but is also the name of a young girl first introduced with
Guild Wars: Prophecies in 2005. She ran around following players through the tutorial while chatting all the time. One of her many dialogues is "Oooh, did you see Sebedoh's outfit? It's lovely, isn't it? I especially like her shoes. When I grow up, I want to be a mesmer so I can have shoes like those." When the Great Searing started (the transition between the
Prophecies tutorial and the main game), it was presumed she was killed during the big fire which turned the green Ascalon into a desert.
Two and a half years (and 8 in-game years) later, while the players venturing from Boreal Station through Ice Cliff Chasms to the Eye of the North (right after the start of the game), an Ebon Vanguard squad stops them right in front of the Eye, led by an unnamed female Ebon Vanguard Mesmer. Just before the end of the cinematic, she says "My name is Gwen".
After entering the Hall of Monuments (inside the Eye of the North outpost), Gwen is unlocked as a mesmer hero. She also gives two special quests involving items of her past (from the
Prophecies tutorial).
What happened in the time between the Searing and her becoming an Ebon Vanguard soldier is shown in the
Bonus Mission Pack, where her story is one of the four stories told.
It's rumoured that
Guild Wars: Eye of the North was intentionally chosen so that it could be abbreviated as
GWEN, alluding to Gwen.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Rambutaan (391) on Sep 04, 2007.
