This article gives an overview of the Guild Wars 2 massively multi-player online role playing game.

The mmprpg Guild Wars 2 is the sequel to the original series and it continues the no subscription rule that is one reason for the huge popularity of the game. This new series will give players the opportunity to import any achievements that they have gained in previous games. This is done by going to where the hall of monuments is located in the Eye of the Storm, which will also be part of Guild Wars 2. Although characters are not transferable, the names of the characters are.

New elements of Guild Wars 2 are concept art and interviews. In Guild Wars 2 avatars have the ability to move between three dimensions, when players are combating their environment they have the ability to set objects on fire and to break objects. There will be additional races as well as those from the earlier series including a sentinel bipedal cat like creature that was introduced in the Prophecy campaign and the Norn, tall solitary humanoids that were introduced in Eye of the North.

Quite a number of the game play elements in the first series are changed in Guild Wars 2. The maximum character level in the earlier Guild Wars campaigns was twenty but this is increased in series 2. Players will be provided with a strong sidekicking system such as that introduced in the City of Heroes so that players aren't forced into the sort of game play that comes with a high level cap - in the new series friendly lower level characters have powers transferred to them by high level characters.

Instead of players' actions affecting only the content that they are in, series two gives players' actions global consequences that either begin or prevent quests based on the way all players affect things within the game. Combat that involved player versus player in the first series will be significantly different in Guild Wars 2. Matches between the guilds that took place in the first series are also available in series 2. In a setting called the Mists, however, Guild Wars 2 introduces world versus world games - these are player versus player battles where those involved adopt different roles and play for rewards depending on what they have achieved. In the player versus player area, all those involved will have the same levels of power.