Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

It's never been crucial or even necessary to buy a guide for a Super Smash Brothers game. Prima's Super Smash Brothers Brawl Guide falls into that category. However, if you ever find yourself picking up this guide, it's important to know that it isn't a bad guide, but it is certainly not a good guide either. For all the good information contained within the pages, the presentation and layout of all this information is quite sloppy, and some of the information isn't there.

The guide begins, like many, with a plethora of game basics. In Smash Brothers Brawl, the game basics is a fairly long section. Beginning by showing you all the controls for the game's many control functions. In this section is where you'll also find much of the games databases. Here they list items, stickers assist trophies and what they do. There's a breakdown of everything here. After all this we get to some general and advanced strategies. By now, all Smash Brothers fans know most of...Read more

I was very disappointed with this guide. It covered only the very basic information and did not go very far into strategies. It gives you a very brief walk thru of the the basic game elements, then spends many pages covering and describing all the stickers. It doesn't cover all the characters, only the main ones.

They could have done a much better job with this book. I bought it for 50% off, so its not a total rip-off. But, I would not buy this book if it were full price. Its not worth it. There are better guides online than this one.

So far this year, the most anticipated game for the Nintendo Wii is Super Smash Brothers Brawl. The game really delivers nicely from top to bottom. But, since Nintendo decided to stop making strategy guides after nearly 20 years in the video game industry, they've put that decision to let Prima Games release guides through Nintendo's license. They did suffer to mixed reactions after Super Mario Galaxy was released last year, and the strategy guide could've shown more. Now, Super Smash Brothers Brawl is put to the test. While the game is great for the Nintendo Wii, the guide does lack a bit in the display of levels for the single player adventure mode. The guide displays nicely for most of the characters in each of the levels, and how to unlock hidden surprises like Sonic The Hedgehog, and Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Unfortunately, there aren't any other strategy guides available for Super Smash Brothers Brawl, so this is the only one that will do. Hopefully, you'll brawl your mind...Read more