Why Guild Wars 2 will be better than The Old Republic

GamerNode's Mike Murphy writes: Over the past two years the general gaming community has become entranced by the development and upcoming release of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's an MMO made by BioWare, who created arguably the best Star Wars game of all time in Knights of the Old Republic, and will act as the spiritual successor of the disappointing failure that was Star Wars Galaxies. There's absolutely no reason why people shouldn't be excited. All this hoopla over The Old Republic, it seems, has blinded the community to another MMO coming up on the horizon, one that is looking far more innovative and superior with each passing reveal.

From the ArenaNet studio in Washington, a group of diligent and hardworking developers are putting together what will truly be the next great MMO, a game they've been working on for the past four years. That title is Guild Wars 2, and it's not just trying to reinvent genre storytelling, but nearly every MMO convention.