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(37 customer reviews) 35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Okay, but not best guide they've ever created,
October 25, 2010 Duane Gundrum (Grand Rapids, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fallout New Vegas: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
First off, the guide is pretty good, as in it does what most previous guides have done with the expectations we generally have. There is a lot of information that is packed into it.
However, there are a couple of problems with the guide that have bothered me since buying it, and I was a big fan of the guide they created for Fallout 3. Unlike Fallout 3, the makers of this guide decided to go cheap and developed a guide that didn't have zone maps included in it. Usually, the huge map is broken up into 9 major sectors, and you have a copy of that sector in the book itself. Instead, they decided to include one large map, and you are expected to refer to the map in order to figure out where anything is. This is massively impractical for anyone who buys a strategy guide, because most people aren't going to want to keep unfolding out this huge map every time they want to figure out where something is. And if you decide to hang the map on the wall (which is a two-sided map, so you...Read more
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Guide,
October 23, 2010 Robert Tipton "Rob Tipton" (Indiana, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fallout New Vegas: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
Fallout: New Vegas is an enormous game. It is quite easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of side quests available (not to mention item hoarding, and exploration). While this game is new, there are very few resources available. This guide has all of these resources that you would be searching for on the internet.
The guide contains:
- Information on creating characters
- Information on Ammo, Items, Guns, Perks, Companions, and Crafting
- Full Bestiary
- Main Quest Walk through
- Full Side-Quest Walk through
- Detailed maps, and "Tour of the Mojave Wasteland" (breakdown of all locations and what they contain).
Pros:
The information on building the ideal character is very nice. The info on all of the perks, attributes and items are extremely helpful. This entire section is called "Training" and has plenty of knowledge available whether you're a veteran or are new to the series. There are charts that explain how each...Read more
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Why does this guide suck so much ???,
October 28, 2010 Don (Utah, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fallout New Vegas: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
This guide is authored by the same person as the Fallout 3 guide, David Hodgson, but it "GREATLY" sucks by comparison. And the "WHY" is simple - Prima Games stopped using the excellent mapping, and visual indexing, of the Fallout 3 guide. In the F3 guide every zone had a small map at the beginning of it's chapter, with a list of primary and secondary locations right next to it, and it worked great. Every destiation had an easy to use mini-map which was easy to find by using the chapter map.
The FNV guide has dropped the zone mini-maps which makes it much more difficult to find where you are, and what you want to know. If you enjoy using the fold out map its probably not a big deal. If you are like me and have a couple of big dogs, or just like the convenience, and ease of the old lay out you will be disappointed. I upped my score from 2 to 3.5, because the good writing and detail is still there - its just much harder to find.
I am going to make some color copies...Read more
