Guild Wars: Nightfall (PC Games, 2006)

Guild Wars Nightfall is an excellent addition to the Guild Wars game. I have enjoyed playing Prophecies, Factions and now Nightfall.

There are several significant improvements to the environment with this campaign. First and foremost is the introduction of personal heroes that accompany you throughout the game. You equip them; you set up their skills; you choose their second profession; you dictate the style they play.

An additional improvement is the addition of free treasure chests and buried treasure found throughout the land of Elona. These are a great source of high grade weapons for your heroes.

Characters level up quickly and obtain at least 4 heroes by the time the character reaches level 14. Heroes also level up quickly and are easily customizable for the area you are playing.

Much like Factions; your character starts its young life on a island with a chance to grow in level before it meets the real nasty characters on the mainland. This is a big improvement over Prophecies where all of the young characters start in "pre-searing" and can't play with advanced characters until they've moved into more advanced areas.

Finally, with the new installment a search feature was added to all of the games that allows players to post groups looking for additional players. Really a quick way to find a group to play with without having to troll through the "all" chat line.

The Nightfall environment is clean; graphics are lush and the new skills available are robust and are great compliment skills to prior installments of Guild Wars.

Get a campaign, start a character, join a guild and have fun! This is a wonderful game full of multi-level difficulties. There are lots of ways to participate no matter if you are a go-it-alone type (just you and your heroes) or the type that always enjoys a quick pick up game in whatever city your in; there is something here for everyone.