Mass Effect 2 Collectors' Edition: Prima Official Game Guide

I ve played a few hours and when I looked back to this guide, I found this guide is ok but lacks depth in many ways.

I had the original Mass Effect 1 guide in hand, overall their styles are similar but I can guarantee that this guide is written in such a hurry, and far from being comprehensive about a massive game, so let me compare them to show you what this ME2 guide lacks.

Minuses:
- ME1 guide has way more tips and notes than this guide, these tips and notes are like: where to find extra items, how to open extra dialogue, the strategy of fighting enemies etc. This makes ME2 guide less new player friendly.
- ME1 guide always uses an extra little section to talk about morality choices for some important dialogues, what is the benefit of being Paragon or Renegade. Well, ME2 guide has no such thing.
- No mission summary(what you ll get in this mission, including codex, weapons, armors, etc) like the ME1 guide.
- There are many little...Read more

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This 320 page hardcover guide for Mass Effect 2 is full colour with an excellent hardcover of N7 logo featured on Shepard's environment suit -- droplets of water stand out as they are printed glossy on an otherwise matte cover.

After having reviewed the Assassin's Creed 2 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide, this guide was kind of disappointing by comparison. For one thing, the quality of the paper used for the book to be pretty soft and flimsy, like those in mass produced magazines, definitely not of a collectors' edition.

Inside, you find the usual walkthrough, list of weapons, armour, skillsets, mineral locations etc. The spoiler-free walkthrough is pretty mundane and nothing to write home about, and appears to have been written in a hurry right before the deadline...Read more

I bought it because i love the N7 Logo.....The information is good too. I like the Planet Database a lot because it lets you know what elements can be found on each planet, and saves a lot of time.