The Guild 2 Gold Edition

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Combines role-playing, life and economic simulation in a stunning 3D landscape.
• Real-time gaming on land and the high seas - trade or fight with your teammates or experience thrilling ship-to-ship combat!
• 4 character classes, 13 different professions.
• Public offices and titles of nobility with corresponding privileges ensure fast social ascension.
• Introduction video, Tutorial and a Campaign guarantee easy-access into the game.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VPPOEQ
• Item Weight: 15 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 16, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,923 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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The Guild 2 is back. The Gold Edition offers innovative gameplay. Create your individual character, establish yourself in one of the various professions and stroll through the breathtaking world of our ancestors. Earn or eke out reputation, wealth and power for you and your whole dynasty. Medieval life has never been this fascinating!

Features:

• Combines role-playing, life and economic simulation in a stunning 3D landscape.
• Real-time gaming on land and the high seas: trade or fight with your teammates or experience thrilling ship-to-ship combat
• 4 character classes, 13 different professions
• Public offices and titles of nobility with corresponding privileges ensure fast social ascension
• An Introduction video, Tutorial and a Campaign give easy-access into the game
• Innovative tactical trading options, intrigues and politics make for great game sessions with your friends (Multiplayer for up to 16 players)!

Product Description

The Guild 2 is back and enthuses not only with its huge content. The Gold Edition offers you some of the most innovative gameplay of all time: Create your individual character establish yourself in one of the various professions and stroll through the breathtaking world of our ancestors. Earn or eke out reputation wealth and power for you and your whole dynasty.Medieval life has never been this fascinating!FEATURES:Combines role-playing life and economic simulation in a stunning 3D landscape. Real-time gaming on land and the high seas: trade or fight with your teammates or experience thrilling ship-to-ship combat! 4 character classes 13 different professions. Public offices and titles of nobility with corresponding privileges ensure fast social ascension. An Introduction video Tutorial and a Campaign guarantee easy-access into the game. Innovative tactical trading options intrigues and politics make for great game sessions with your friends (Multiplayer for up to 16 players)!System Requirements:Windows Vista / 2000 / XPFormat: WIN 2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 625904556417 Manufacturer No: DVD55641MB

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit buggy, but great!, June 29, 2008

By 

Christopher A. Ogden "Sydius" (Los Gatos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: The Guild 2 Gold Edition (Video Game)

I think many people may find this game to be a bit too slow (in terms of game-play), but both my girlfriend and I enjoy it thoroughly. It's a little buggy (especially in multiplayer mode, where things break if too much is happening at once).

The dialogs are really cheesy, but some interesting social dynamics can develop as people love or hate you for your actions in the game. It's neat to be able to judge court cases or be the town mayor, especially. It really is like a little medieval micro cosmos.

I downloaded and installed a player-made mod called "BttR" and it added two new professions (Necromancer/Banker) and many items, while fixing some of the bugs in the original scripts. This, I think, improved the game significantly.

Definitely not a polished game, and not for everyone, but I love it and would buy it again.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not quite as good as Europa 1400, August 20, 2009

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Laura (EVERETT, WA, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Guild 2 Gold Edition (Video Game)

I was surprised to find that this game was the successor to Europa 1400. I thought it was the predecessor. There were things about this game that weren't in Europa, improvements in my opinion, and I just assumed those were changes that had been made to make Europa a better overall game.

For example, you actually have a playable character in Guild 2. Meaning, you have a character you have to move around to every building for every activity. In Europa, its more of an omnipotent point of view, meaning you can enter each shop and give your employees a bonus, and immediately go to the other shop and do the same thing. In the Guild 2, you have to physically move your character there. I understand that might be more realistic, but it ate up a lot of time. And, if you chose to be a woman, if you are pregnant, you can't leave the house. I found I always played men so I would not lose that time as well. Come on, this is a game that allows women to be mayor in a time when they weren't really, and yet a woman has to stay house bound when pregnant? Another thing I thought odd, was the fact that you could not compliment someone of the opposite sex. Why is that? So, trying to get into politics, my female character could not compliment the other women in the higher ranking offices, and they were ALL women, so I was left with "bribe" and gifts as my only options for smoozing. I find it strange that women can't compliment other women or men other men. Why close that avenue? Sometimes, someone would not like me, for no apparent reason, and no matter how much money I bribed them with or gifts I gave them, they continued to hate me. I could not get elected to office for three generations, because this woman hated my family. that was why I had no money, I guess, I spent tons trying to get her to like me.

Also, courting in Guild 2 was much harder. In Europa, you click on a button to look at prospective mates. You can choose from a variety of ages, classes, education, positions and wealth. In Guild 2, the only perspective mates were all uneducated with a zero dollar worth. I sent a daughter through school, apprenticeship and even to college. she graduated with a PhD, and yet she too only had uneducated men with no money to choose from. By this time, I was into my 3rd generation. My family has wealth, position and education. Is a ignorant man with no money all she had to choose from? In some ways this game is portrayed as realistic, but in others, it falls short. A women with a wealthy family of position would have higher status men to choose from. And, the actual courting itself was troublesome. If the man walked off when I was buying him a gift, I could not find him again! I would have to wait for the little message popped up that he was feeling neglected so I could click on his picture and find him. Perhaps there was some way of tracking him down that I could not find.

Which brings me to another gripe, the tutorial is worthless. I played three different games because of mistakes I had made. I expect to play one learning game to work all the kinks out, but after three? There were things that greatly effected game play that if I had known about, i would have made different choices. The thing about being house bound when pregnant was one of them. The fact that once you add someone to your dynasty, if you remove them, you can't put them back. I could not get the "follow me" command to work, so when I got married, the only way to get the spouse to go into the house was to add them to the dynasty and tell them to go there. So, after going through all that trouble and money to educate my daughter, I have to take her off to add her husband to get him into the house, and then I can't add her again. So, I'm left with aging parents, and an uneducated man who does me far less good than than the daughter. I also did not know how to farm. Perhaps other people picked up on this faster than I did. I bought a farm, and then spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to sow it. I had to ask Google to find out that I had to add garden patches and animal pens for this to work. I thought those were extra. I also could not seem to make money very fast. Even on easy mode, I could hardly keep up. I guess that too is more realistic, but I could not get into politics or up grade my house or business enough to do the really cool things. I eventually had to resort to cheating, giving myself more money, just to upgrade my house and business. Perhaps I'm not savvy enough with commerce, but after I was on my third game and into my 3rd generation, I was feeling frustrated that I was not further.

Things I did like that weren't in Europa, were that there were other town to trade with and choose from to live in. I also like that the tavern. You can go there, sit and eat, drink and talk. You can take baths, alone or with someone else, and dance.

Well, supposedly you can choose different towns to live in. That feature would not work for me either. Perhaps its because I have Vista. That is my last section. Things that didn't work that might or might not have had to do with Vista. I could not always pick my home town. I would select it, but I would end up in some other town - with no house. For some reason, I didn't always start with a house. I would then have to buy a house and a business. Sometimes I would click on "compliment" but would get "insult" or something else. Other times, a note would appear that my child was eligible for school or an apprenticeship, but the option would never appear. I had to have 3 kids in one game to finally get one that made it into school. I have no idea why the option would not appear. Sometimes it would appear but it would be a long time after the notice. I thought you were perhaps only allowed to have one child at a time, but in one game, I had two kids go through school at the same time, so that wasn't it.

Overall, I liked Europa better. I lost my Europa disk, and am online today to by TWO so I have a replacement. Guild 2 is ok, and in the interim, it passed the time. If it had not been as buggy as it was and with better instructions, I would have liked it more.

3.0 out of 5 stars Non Climactic, majestic sandbox + good player built additives, June 5, 2010

By 

J.K.G. (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Guild 2 Gold Edition (Video Game)

This game was a small gem as it's original Europa 1400 ad back in it's time, not as much any more. It is a sandbox game play where you manufacture goods for a small mid evil township marlet place and make gain with money while progress is achieved by building better & more plus more money. The second of the series now The Guild was still a sandbox, the install is very quirky to my USA system, it fights the every day protective systems we use a bit and tends to be trying if it does not want to work and this is true of all the series games new and older ones. The next Guild 2 Pirates of high Seas or European Seas as its known has a 4 level Campaign ( also only one with boats) which is a quaint and inviting look into the middle ages setting, its fairly fun but the series releaes right afterward has no campaign, yes back to sandbox and the one coming up has a plan to stay that way also. The Pirates one is the only one that has this in it, it is a short campaign, with out this the game tends to after some time lack challenge for you, it lacks imagination for a game were the developers keep to stating they need time to develope new ideas for the sandbox features and have no room then for a structured challenge like even the mini campaign. Unfortunately the experience is all in its atmosphere and what you do with it and not the roles that the weak ai acts out at all. The Venice add unfortunatley in my opion was a flop and very small compared to other game disc contenet, I think Renaissance is also going to have the same weak apeal, they changed msotly the looks of the building, they are more symetrical and thats about all and the game was a bor compared to the prior ones. This may be the only worthwhile copy if you are willing to spend the time on it.The Guild 2 Gold Edition