Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

The first expansion pack for Guild Wars 2. Journey deeper into the heart of the Maguuma Jungle to discover new challenges, adventures, and ancient civilizations. Unlock the ability to use the new profession…

85 23 October 2015

What Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ArenaNet and released in 2015. It was published by NCSOFT. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ArenaNet Guild Wars.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns takes place in the Heart of Maguuma, the deep jungle where Pact forces crashed on their way to confront the Elder Dragon Mordremoth. Discover the secrets of the Maguuma Jungle, meet the new cultures and races who live there, and explore the vastly vertical maps as you progress your characters through this new region. The jungle dragon, Mordremoth, is one of six Elder Dragons that threaten all life on Tyria with their corrupting influence and insatiable hunger for magic. Twisted by Mordremoth, the sylvari Scarlet Briar devastated the city of Lion's Arch and disrupted a magical ley line, awakening the dragon. Now it begins to send its minions, the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy.

How it was received

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns launched on 23 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer