Mass Effect 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

The guide covers the basic basics and captures none of the soul or mythology of the game. Do this. Go there. It does make sure to give nothing away, but does not go into any of the role playing aspects, team dynamics, character creation strategies, battle strategies, companion info, romantic possibilities, conversation choices. All of them are mentioned, but only just. The guide doesn't offer anything the gamer couldn't get on their own, no insight, no great photos, no soul.

I've used guides for other games (the Final Fantasy series in particular) to be sure that I've completed all of the side quests, know which weapons have better stats and where to find them, etc., and I wish I had paid attention to the reviews of this guide before I purchased it. I read them while it was in transit, but figured it was only $14 so no harm done if it wasn't quite up to snuff. It's significantly below par.

Between talking to your crew between missions, your yeoman giving you a heads up to keep you from forgetting a loyalty quest, the linear nature of the missions and the blue highlighting on the screen when you point the reticule anywhere near a wall safe or other searchable object, you really don't need the walkthrough.

Areas where a walkthrough would be helpful would include better combat tips for difficult fights, including pros and cons of various heavy weapon choices going into a section. However, there is remarkably little along these...Read more

I have the collectors edition of this book, which includes some fancy stuff (that really isn't so fancy.) I'm only going to comment on the actual GAME GUIDE material here, which is identical from one version to the next.

This book is a GAME GUIDE for a video game. So when I get to a portion of the game and I'm hesitant on which choice to make and I refer to my GAME GUIDE for some insight on what ramifications these choices might have.... ...and the guide tells you COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHOICES than what actually exists in the game... ...then it's automatically a useless product.

The choices on my screen consisted of three different guns to choose. I could only have one, so I was hoping to learn which was the best for my style of gameplay. This Game Guide told me that I could choose between three versions of UPGRADES for my existing weapons, and proceeded to tell me how those tech benefits might affect one particular class (out of 6) for my character. Oh I...Read more