Guild Wars: Eye of the North E3 Previews
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Eye of the North includes some of the races that will be playable in Guild Wars 2, including the shapeshifting Norn, magical Asura, the Dwarves, and the Charr. We saw some of the heroes you'll meet along your travels in the expansion like Pyre Fierceshot, a Charr Ranger, Vekk, an Asura Elementalist, and Ogden Stonehealer, a Dwarven Healer. To build reputation and open up new missions and items with each race, Eye of the North will offer some mini-games. The Warlike Norn toss players into a fighting arena where the opponents are characters from previous Guild Wars releases. The Asura, favoring intelligence over brawn, challenge players to a game of Polymoch, a kind of battle chess involving game pieces with elemental properties.
And a snip from GameSpot's article:
The major function of Eye of the North is to provide a wide range of adventures that you can take your existing Guild Wars characters on. There are many dungeon crawls that you can partake in, and we saw fearsome opponents ranging from giant scorpions to fire elementals. One of the boss battles sounds like a mix of both action and slapstick, as the boss (a fire elemental) rolls giant balls of fire at you. So you must battle his minions while at the same time trying to avoid getting bowled over. Since there's more of an emphasis on quests and adventuring, Eye of the North introduces 50 player-versus-environment skills. These can't be used in player-versus-player combat, but they should help against computer-driven opponents. There are also 40 complete armor sets and 10 new heroes to unlock.
