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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful: By Kings to me (USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Alan Wake Collector's Edition Bundle: Prima Official Game Guide (Hardcover) This is only the second strategy guide I've bought (The first being for BioShock 2) and was overall disappointed by the guide. Dont get me wrong, I like how they took the time to make this guide like a novel (This is Alan Wake after all) and even the limited edition of the game comes in a book-like case but as far as quickly getting the information I needed, it failed.
The reason I pick up guides for games is the maps. I like to collect everything and this one was tough to understand. Im not sure if its the guides fault as the game itself didnt help. How are you suppose to explain where a certain coffee thermos is when all there is around you is trees and rocks? It didnt help that the actual game doesnt provide a map so looking at the guide you have to "guess" where you're at. 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Alan Wake Collector's Edition Bundle: Prima Official Game Guide (Hardcover) Whoa this is not what I was expecting when my game guide came in the mail yesterday. I was very impressed with the content sent in the special edition box I recommend it if Amazon is still selling it for 23 dollars. Its so worth it. The extra book "making of" is really amazing im glade I got it! However the guide book... it is written like a novel ... so in a sense the guide is SO detailed in its novel writing you can read the guide and not have to play the game! I would have been happy with just the "highlighted" parts and left out the rest of it. The other stuff is pretty good but I wish the guide was not a 100% spoiler! A lot of effort was put into it I can tell, but there is soo many words on a page @_@. I collect the guides just to have and it's a nice but if I get stuck on a part in the game it will take me like 10 mins to find the "highlighted" part you need.
its a book and not really a game guide. so i gave it a 3. thats my opinion! :D thanks! 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Alan Wake Collector's Edition Bundle: Prima Official Game Guide (Hardcover) I was well suprised to find out what this package included when i opened the box. Having wanted the strategy guide, i overlooked the description section thinking this was like any other games' collectors edition book. It is and it isnt. It has the strategy guide, BUT it is not a hardbound copy of the strategy guide like most collectors books are and which like a previous reviewer stated, is a little confusing at first, but if you take a moment to realize how the book is actually done, its more helpful then the other post would lead you to believe. Being based on a video game that is story-driven and set in the world of a fictional writer, having the guide read something like a book is a different way to do a guide, and all the relevant info and hints are there for you to find . The suprising part of the package is the second book you get, a HARDBOUND illustrated book giving a detailed game-related history of Remedy, the makers of the game and a TON of...Read more |