Guild Wars (video game)

Guild Wars
Developer(s)	ArenaNet
Publisher(s)	WW: NCSoft BR: Level Up! Games
Designer(s)	Mike O'Brien James Phinney
Series	Guild Wars
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	April 28, 2005[1]
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online, action role-playing
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Guild Wars is a multiplayer online action role-playing game developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of South Korean game publisher NCSOFT, and released in 2005. As the original installment of the Guild Wars series, its campaign was retroactively titled Prophecies to differentiate it from the content of subsequent releases. The game contains a co-operative role-playing portion and a competitive Player versus Player (PvP) portion. In PvP, players may use either their co-operative characters or PvP-exclusive characters who are inherently maximum level and have account-based access to unlocked content.