NCsoft announced that Guild Wars will officially be launched on April 28. Gamers who purchase the pre-order package will be able to start playing the game on April 27. NCsoft also announced the dates of the last three Guild Wars Beta Weekend Events. The events will be held on February 18-20, March 18-20 and April 15-17.

Guild Wars takes the best elements of today’s MMO games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. Your party always has its own unique copy of the quest map, so camping, kill-stealing, and long lines to complete quests are all things of the past.