Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire is the second expansion for the award-winning game, Guild Wars 2. As the balance of magic comes undone, lead your allies in the hunt for the rogue god Balthazar, whose scorched-earth…

84 22 September 2017

What Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire is

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ArenaNet and released in 2017. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ArenaNet Guild Wars.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Humanity has worshipped the six gods for centuries, even as their prayers went unanswered. Now the god of fire and war, Balthazar, has made an unexpected return, only to reveal himself as a ruthless manipulator with little regard for mortal life. Tyria's heroes thwarted the first stage of his catastrophic plan to destroy the Elder Dragons—but now he's raised a zealous army to cut a path of terror and destruction across the south. You must halt their march before Balthazar sets the foundations of the world ablaze.

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: Path of Fire holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire launched on 22 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer