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(15 customer reviews) 13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Gorgeous and very helpful,
November 18, 2009 Michael J. Marziale (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide (Paperback)
This is what a game guide should be. Beautifully put together, this guide is full of pictures, maps, and illustrations. The guide starts with a nice game overview section that gives you some basic pointers, explains core concepts of the game, goes through controls, etc. Basically, it brings you up to speed on the game in a clear and concise manner. After that, it moves into your standard walkthrough, with lots of illustrations and maps. It is very easy to follow without spoiling the game. Of course, perhaps the most important part of an Assassin's Creed walkthrough is help finding all of those pesky collectibles throughout the game, and this guide takes care of you there.
Bottom line, get the guide. It is beautifully designed and executed, and it will simplify your life and add to your enjoyment of this game. This one isn't as essential as a guide for Oblivion, for example, but it is still well worth picking up.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful
What a Player's Guide Should Be,
November 23, 2009 Lang M. Ho "Just Another Guy" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide (Paperback)
Simply put, this is quite possibly the best player's guide I have ever purchased. If you haven't played the game all the way through yet, continue reading at your own risk. I describe elements of the game you may or may not prefer to discover as you play through it. you have been warned.
It starts off with a few short explanations on controls and maneuvers. I particularly enjoyed this because I found the AC2 game manual to be lacking.
The walk-through is very well put together. Each time you enter a ewn city it gives a map with codex pages, viewpoints and the game's database landmarks. For the walkthrough portion, all the left-hand pages are the main storyline and all the right-hand pages are general information of interest and trivia. It also lists the free missions (assassination contracts, races, couriers tasks, beat-up assignments, etc.) at the end of each memory sequence.
The Reference and Analysis section describes, general tactics and...Read more
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good Guide,
December 26, 2011 VinnyB - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide (Paperback)
I bought the guide to play along with the game. I played the first game with good success so I figured Id tackle the second one. The guide was a great help with listing where all the hidden goodies were. Id buy it again if I had too. It was worth it.
