Concept Art for GW2

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Taken From The new Guild Wars 2 Trailer:
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The 'exploding baddie' at the end of the trailer is definitely a Charr. These 'fiery charr' are probably his lackies. Perhaps one of the Charr fractions split off and made a pact with the surviving Titans? Making them super badass? I'm excited.

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For anyone interested in following Kekai Kotaki (Concept Art Lead for GW2), please see following links:

http://kekai.blogspot.com/
http://www.kekaiart.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/xia/artist_kekai.html
http://conceptartworld.com/?p=917

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0378008&page=2
Here is a post Regina made about it.

And a small article.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=23866

Well, the link explains Snow Battle, where are the others from?

Thanks for posting, BTW.

Wow, I've waited for these for so long that now that they are here...meh.
Have you seen NATAL (and Milo) and Sony's equivalent? WII just became obsolete. Hope they develop new games that utilize that technology as soon as possible.

Looks promising. I would really like that cold raw athmosphere in GW2, at least in winter areas. That's not easy to do though, as it shouldn't get grey and boring fast.

EDIT: Is it official, are they all 3 concept art from GW2?

Wow, all the whining and complaining, from hundreds of people. Then the concept art comes along...and four people post about it.

Sad.


All in all though, those pictures are awesome, especially the Druid one.

Thanks for post mate, little more hope added

As interesting as this is that we finally see something concrete about gw2, its hard to reconcile this concept art with the fact that GW2 will supposedly have much better graphics and a different "feel." (something I hadn't considered until I saw them)

With that understanding, I get the impression that this concept art is the equivalent of the "mole hills" concept art we saw from GW1 that wasn't actually used.

And I'm somewhat annoyed by the stereotypical white, dark-haired male warrior character. But I do think its neat that in "snow battle" he looks similar to Sauron lol.

This ain't WoW, its pronounced Sylvari

I wasn't speaking of the sylvari, I was speaking of the big green Druid that takes up more that half the image.

Yet the Wii is the only system with motion controls being used properly. (See Wii Sports, Metroid, and Red Steel 2.)

I hope that knights armor makes it into the game. That's awesome!

Said that myself when i saw it

Thank you damkel for posting! May I ask where you found these?

BTW, I noticed the first one was labeled "2009druidw.png" but aren't the druids of GW1 non-corporeal?

You also missed another image from the cited thread, the Construction Site (1st image at http://www.intothepixel.com/artwork/...st_winners.asp).

Note that while the image caption says only 'Guild Wars', Regina did hint (in a not-so-subtle, but NDA observing way) that it's GW2.

oooooooooh, the snowbattle armor + sword on the warrior looks nice!!

Yes, it's the reason why I asked if it's official as in the E3 thread people were refering to the 'construction' pic as being a part of Kaineng. On the info that came with the pic it says 'GW' and not 'GW2'.

Watch out that you don't get Wiiitis

Oh, sorry. Yes, I noticed your post, and to me it seems that some people in that thread just thought it looked Kaineng-ish, following up on Regina's question. Also, you can click on the icon to get the full-sized version, and then you can see the background skyscrapers which kinda make the point moot.

Concept art != screenshot.

I think that's the main issue. I'm not complaining. I'm actually indifferent.

very true.

we all know concept art is indeed that, a concept and an inspiration for the art direction. the end product may vaguely resemble it, but we all know the game is never going to look like that.

I think the main reason no one cares is because...well...look at the GW concept art. Then look at GW.

There's your answer.