Sims Medieval: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

 (20 customer reviews)

For the first time I ever, I would not recommend buying this Prima Guide. I always buy all of the Prima Guides and read them cover to cover and then keep them right at hand to look up specific information while playing later. I expected to do the same with this guide, but it is, unfortunately, not very useful.

The guide begins with some basic information about gameplay. It discusses very briefly the energy and hunger bars, socialization, and getting married, for example. There is an extremely small section on each profession. It also gives a short introduction of how the quests systems work. These sections should have been very useful, but every time that I have a question come up that I try to look up, the answer is not in the guide. What does the exclamation mark and the discussion of a paltry aspect when I'm picking a quest mean? I could not find this at all discussed in the guide. Are there baby chimes like the other sims games when you get pregnant? Not...Read more

Ever since I discovered Prima guides four years ago, I've factored the cost of the guide into my purchase of every new Sims game or expansion pack. The Sims 2 guide turned me from a novice bumbler to a confident and competent player in a matter of hours. Whenever possible, I read the guide from cover to cover before I even install the game.

Greg Kramer wrote the guides for The Sims 2 and its expansions, and they were simply wonderful. Written with intelligent humor and an obvious love of the game, they were satisfyingly thorough. I finished each guide with very few unanswered questions (mostly of a pretty esoteric nature - I'm a very demanding simmer!). The guides could have used a little more editing (really now, Prima, I'm sure there are any number of people with excellent spelling and grammar who would LOVE to preview your manuscripts for FREE in exchange for two copies of the finished work - one autographed and one to use in playing the game - I'm available, hint...Read more

I purchased this guide in the hopes that it would provide more detailed game tips and strategies. It mostly just includes everything from within the game, although there are a few helpful tips scattered throughout. I was disappointed after going through the majority of it. There are some strategies for completing the overall kingdom ambitions, but these take up a mere two or three pages in total. The sections about the professions are extremely lacking: They felt like long-winded explanations of the in-game lessons. And the largest section of the guide, which is dedicated to laying out the quest steps, provides no added value, aside from perhaps knowing how many steps are left until the quests end.

What really confused me about the guide was the audience it was intended for. It's almost too basic for seasoned players of the Sims franchise, but not as detailed to help out newcomers. I was also very disappointed to see how many references and comparisons to The Sims 3 were...Read more