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Guild Wars 2 Demo Release
ArenaNet's Chris Lye has just announced the unveiling of the first public hands-on demo of Guild Wars 2 will be in Cologne, Germany at gamescom August 19th - 22nd! If you want to be the first in your guild to play GW2 this is the show to attend.  There'll be 45 demo stations and ArenaNet staff will be on-hand including studio head Mike O'Brien and German community manager Martin Kerstein.In the demo you'll be able to play a Human character starting at level 1, or a level 47 Charr. As the human, you'll get to experience the personal, branching story and you'll get to band together with other players to defend human villagers and push back marauding centaurs in a variety of events. You'll have a huge open world to explore and will experience the active combat system and cross-profession combos.Once you're familiar with the game you can play again as a high-level charr. You won't see as much story playing as a charr (to avoid spoiling the story for you that far into the game) but you'll have a wide variety of high-level skills to experiment with and you'll be able to participate in some truly epic battles.Out of combat, you can experience Divinity's Reach, the last great human city, in person. It's enormous and detailed, and full of amazing things to discover. This is where your human character's home is located, and you'll keep coming back to it as your personal story plays out.Oh, watch out for a dragon named "The Shatterer". He's a special rank of dragon that terrorizes an area known as "The Brand".For those of us who can't make it to Germany ArenaNet will also be out in force at PAX in their hometown of Seattle with a full crew of artists, designers and community people - as well as a number of hands-on demo stations of Guild Wars 2. Get in line early for those!Hey, I've been good and I have a new stocking that's going to need filling, so wouldn't Christmas be a great time to release Guild Wars 2? 
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