With San Diego Comic Con 2011 now over, NcSoft has shifted its focus across the Atlantic to Gamescom, Europe's largest game expo. This annual celebration of games and entertainment takes over Cologne once again from August 17-21, and the game publisher will be there in full force - and developer ArenaNet is bringing a brand new Guild Wars 2 demo to Germany. 

The new demo will feature a ton of cool new content that hasn’t been showcased before.  Attendees will be able to get their hands on the new game at the NCsoft Booth (A11/B10, Hall 9.1). The demo includes all seven professions that NcSoft has revealed so far: engineer, thief, guardian, necromancer, ranger, warrior, and elementalist. 

Also, for the first time, gamers can forge your destiny as a member of the Iron, Ash, or Blood Legion in our charr starter area. You can also choose to play the human and norn starting experience as well. 

As always, ArenaNet has prepared a higher level demo experience for players who want a challenge. Face powerful Orrian enemies on land, engage them in battle underwater and face off against a new boss. For the first time, players will be able to play as sylvari and asura characters for this high level content. Gamers will be able to play around with character appearance customization feature and control the way your character looks. 

NcSoft is premiering Guild Wars 2 Player vs Player (PvP) at gamescom. Gamers can swing by the ESL booth and head to the Guild Wars 2 area to get exclusive hands-on PvP experience. There will also be periodic exhibition matches that pit the team of ArenaNet developers against the European guild Boon Control on the ESL center stage.

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