IGN writes: "When I first sat down with JoWood's Guild Wars 2: Venice, I knew from the tutorial that I was in for a world of pain. At eight chapters of droning voice-over, I almost didn't make it. I was absolutely giddy when I discovered the UI button that stopped the droning and allowed me to read the instructions instead.
After the tutorial, I was offered a choice of map and game mode. The game offers four different regional maps to choose from: Venice, The Centre of the Republic, Trieste, and the Republic of Venice. All the maps seem to be more or less the same size, differing primarily in geographic features like mountains, water, etc. The four game modes consist of Dynasty, Extinction, Mission and Time Limit and provide different win conditions -- anything from from crushing all rival dynasties, to becoming a robber baron."
Thinking of a typical German genre most of us refer to economic simulations. Oldschool ecosim-veterans of course know Die Fugger. Everyone else pricks its ears when hearing the name The Guild, which was released in 2002 as a kind-of-sequel. Now it’s 2014 – the release of The Guild 2 was 8 years ago. A few weeks ago we finally got to know that The Guild 3 is going to be released in 2016. First facts can be found in gameplane.de's extensive gamescom 2014 preview. Now it’s time to dig a little deeper – welcome to gameplane.de's The Guild 3 interview!
JoWooD Entertainment AG has released a new patch for The Guild 2, solving all known issues with the engine and introduces several changes to game balance based on JoWooD’s intense cooperation with the game’s fan community. The patch is compatible with all versions of The Guild 2, including The Guild 2 Gold Edition, The Guild 2 Universe Edition, The Guild 2 Royal Edition and the Pirates of the Hanse expansion.
JoWooD has issued a new patch for The Guild 2: Venice, updating to v3.5 the second add-on for The Guild 2. Among various bugfixes, problems with the load / save function are fixed. There may be still issues with Quickload and Quicksave on some systems, so it is recommended always using the save via menu function.
