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God of War: Chains of Olympus Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Official Strategy Guides) (Bradygames Official Strategy Guides)

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Fun Text 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This guide is well laid out. The bestiary, photos, and campaign walkthrough are top notch. I really liked the sections that explained the Greek myths, which provided extra background info about the characters in the game. It was definitely an abbreviated history lesson. The guide also contains lots of concept art in the back. You also get a nice rundown of all the hitpoints for all the enemies. All the combos are explained. If you are a fan of the series, you can't go wrong with this little guide.

As good as the first 2 guides 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

The GoW guides are some of the best out there because the include every tiny bit on what you have to do in the game. I also liked that the Bestilery has improved and is a lot more clear. The only problem I have with this is that it doesnt show you the bonus costumes that you unlock as Kratos. So overall this is a very good guide and it comes in handy a lot.

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The God of War strategy guide book contains 160 fully colored pages.Uncover every Gorgon Eye and Phoenix Feather.Discover the Strengths and Weaknesses of every Enemy!Overwhelm the Most Fearsome Bosses.Overcome each Mind-Boggling Puzzle.Find Each Masterfully Hidden Secret.Complete Weapon and Magic Upgrade Schedule.Full List of Unlockables.Expert Tips on Challenges of the Gods.Lore Behind the Game.

Complete Adventurer: A Guide to Skillful Characters of All Classes (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)

Jesse Decker

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great book for Gamers 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I find this book very helpful in my D&D games. With the new prestige classes introduce, I have completed my characters and so have my fellow gamers. I would recommend that any serious gamer aquire this book for their collection. It could be a life saver.

Helpfull material 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 22 people found this review helpful.

This book, besides new classes, and prestige classes, contain a lot of information about new spells for all classes and feats that may lead your new adventures. I rate it OK. a must have book.

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The essential sourcebook for any D&D character looking to build adventuring skills.

Complete Adventurer™ serves primarily as a player resource focused on adventuring skills for characters of any class. As adventuring is the foundation for the entire D&D experience, nearly every aspect of the D&D game benefits from the material in this product. Characters have access to new combat options, spells, equipment, classes, and prestige classes, as well as exciting new character classes such as ninja and scout. Complete Adventurer also provides new information on several organizations and guilds, and Dungeon Masters will find material for creating or optimizing single creatures or even entire campaign worlds.

Hack the SAT: Strategies and Sneaky Shortcuts That Can Raise Your Score Hundreds of Points

Eliot Schrefer

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A top SAT coach—whose high-scoring strategies earned him $300 an hour from Manhattan’s elite private-school students —now makes his unique, proven secrets available to all.

Money can buy academic success, and the SAT is no exception. Harvard honors graduate Eliot Schrefer discovered this lucrative truth when he took a job at the nation’s most exclusive test-prep firm. He has helped hundreds of his clients raise their scores an average of 300 points and reel in admission to exclusive colleges. Now, in a guide that is as unique as his tricks, Schrefer brings his extraordinary pointers to every anxious applicant.

This user-friendly rescue manual delivers such scoreboosting features as:

• a killer vocabulary list, including words the SAT has repeated for decades (and why reading Vanity Fair magazine is smart test prep)

• cheap tricks to master the math section (surprise! you learned all you needed to know about SAT math by the eighth grade)

• how to be a grammar genius without cracking another book (bonus: discover the tiny subset of grammar rules that is the SAT’s secret lover)

Schrefer writes in a snappy, conversational tone, dishing gossipy anecdotes about former clients while presenting advice not found in competing books. With a design that is as vibrant as a gamer’s virtual world, this is the ultimate weapon in the quest for test-score triumph.

BioShock Signature Series Guide PS3 (Bradygames Signature Series Guide)

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BradyGames’ BioShock PS3 Signature Series Guide includes the following:

• A comprehensive walkthrough of the underwater Utopia, Rapture.
• Illustrated Maps: Discover the best route to each of your objectives and learn the location of every safe, secret, and enhancement that this strange world holds.
• Evolve Today: Uncover the secret powers of plasmids and unlock your genetic potential. With these genetic mutations you can shock, freeze, and incinerate enemies, use telekinesis to move objects, and enrage foes to make them fight against each other.
• U-Invent: Use our guide to create valuable upgrades to all of your weapons.
• Exclusive Foldout: An exclusive poster features art from the game.
• Completely updated for PlayStation 3!

Platform: PlayStation 3

Genre: Shooter

Blue Dragon: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides)

Kaizen Media Group

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The Best Blue Dragon Resource 5 out of 5 stars.
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Prima games has not always produced guides that would rank high on my personal favorites list. Especially in the RPG department. But every now and then you get a good guide, and Blue Dragon is a good guide. It's filled to the brim with details. Just about everything you wanted to know about Blue Dragon is here.

The guide begins by introducing you to the characters, where it gives them a standard bio. It'll also introduce you to your enemies. It then jumps into the Game Basics where you'll basically learn about the games system. Just about everything you need is here. You'll learn about the complexities of the game system, achievement, battle skills. Just about everything. It's exhaustive, but it helps.

The game then jumps into the Shadow Classes where it'll tell you all kinds of things. Under each class they give you a description, list out all the abilities and give you tips on just which skills you might want to learn. This is followed up by a list of all the spells obtainable under each class. After this the guide finally jumps into the walkthrough.

The walkthrough is huge. The walkthrough is divided first by disc, and then by quests that you'll undergo on each disc. Each quest will list off five "milestones" you have to do. The walkthrough then proceeds to help you through each and every one of those milestones detailing just how to go about your business. The walkthrough is very well organized, with some big, gorgeous screenshots (taken in widescreen) to help you out. There's also plenty of artwork to enjoy as you flip through the guides pages.

The maps are detailed, with an items list to accompany each one. The walkthrough also calls out new enemies as you encounter them, but they don't exactly provide an enemy list for each area. Achievements are called out and they'll tell you how to get them. Their boss strategies, while not perfect, are helpful enough, and the guide typically warns you when you're running into danger.

The walkthrough is overall, extremely detailed and well laid out. The screenshots are extremely detailed and clear. Some parts of the walkthrough are even written with a sense of humor. After the final boss there's a section dedicated to some of the optional stuff. Another something worth checking out if you're out to master the game.

The guide then moves on into the extras chapter. This is mostly full of appendices. It begins with the achievements appendix by listing off all the achievements and telling you how many points you'll get for them. Again, another section that's pretty detailed and exhaustive. Especially because there are quite a few achievements. The next appendix is the barriers, showing you where all those trapped treasure chests are.

Afterwards the guide moves on into the real appendices. Stuff like the items list. Items, weapons, armor, accessories. It's all here. This is followed up by the monsters section. This section is not done in alphabetical order but by the monster's number, which is pretty much set up by family. More than likely you won't need the monsters list, but if you do there's no index or anything to help you locate the monster you're looking for.

After all these huge sections the developers of the guide end of with showing you an art gallery. It's all beautiful artwork, but probably not a section you'll find yourself completely immersed in. There's enough fan art throughout the guide as it is.

If you need help with Blue Dragon, this is definitely a good guide to look to. It has just about everything you need and then some. A well organized guide that won't have you flipping pages like a madman because you can't find something. This is the all around perfect guide for Blue Dragon.

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From your Shadows come hope…
· Complete the Encyclopedia—full data on every monster, item, spell, class, and barrier in our complete appendices
·Every Sidequest Revealed—unlock every Barrier, slay every boss, and max out your Mechat
·Earn Every Achievement—score the full 1,000 Gamer Points with our detailed Achievements guide
·Detailed Walkthrough—full maps, item lists, and enemy stats for every game area
·Defeat the Optional Superbosses—detailed strategies for defeating the Legendary Dragons and other hidden bosses

Myst Reader, The

Rand Miller

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This omnibus edition of the hugely popular Myst trilogy is published to coincide with the release of Myst Revelations, the latest in the line of the bestselling Myst interactive CD-ROM games.

The award-winning Myst series is one of the most successful interactive CD-ROM computer games in history with sales of more than 12 million copies worldwide. Myst captivated the world when it was first conceived and created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller. Its extraordinary success has gone on to spawn Riven, Myst III Exile, and most recently, Uru: The Ages Beyond Myst. Devoted fans of these surreal adventure games gather yearly at "Mysterium" (whose event sites are spreading to other countries) to exchange game strategies, share stories, and meet up with old friends.

The Myst Reader is a literary companion to the CD-ROM games and a compendium of the bestselling official Myst trilogy: The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti'ana, and The Book of D'ni. Devoted fans and new players alike will be delighted to have three books in this mythic saga together for the first time in one value-priced volume, which will be published in time to coincide with the long-awaited release of Myst Revelations.

Second Life: The Official Guide

Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au, Cory Ondrejka, Richard Platel, Sara Van Gorden, Jeannette Cézanne, Paul Cézanne, Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham, Aleks Krotoski, Celebrity Trollop, Jim Rossignol

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Since "opening" in 2003, Second Life has become an explosive worldwide phenomenon, inhabited by over 5 million virtual residents by 2007. Hit the digital ground running with Second Life: The Official Guide, the ultimate travel reference to this exciting new "metaverse." Get all the information you'll need to create your avatar, navigate the landscape, and build your in-World business to produce real-world profits.

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SOULCALIBUR IV Signature Series Fighter's Guide (Bradygames Signature) (Bradygames Signature)

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What’s Within Your Soul?

The epic struggle between the holy sword Soul Calibur and its cursed counterpart, Soul Edge, comes full circle as the next chapter in the battle begins. Part of BradyGames’ Signature Series, this indispensible guide prepares you for deadly combat against formidable combatants from all over the world--and from a galaxy far, far away…

Exhaustive Character Content

Comprehensive profiles and combat analysis for all 34 fighters--26 standard and 5 bonus characters, plus Darth Vader, Yoda, and The Apprentice!

Complete Movelists

We provide all the moves for every character, and we show you the deadliest ways to use them!

Expert Fighting Tactics

Fully exploit Soul Crushes, Critical Finishes, and our devastating combos--gain the advantage at any range and in any situation!

Tower of Souls Coverage

Completion requirements and item awards for every floor of both Ascent and Descent modes!

That’s Not All!

Complete Achievement and Honor Award Lists, Full Weapon Coverage, Game Secrets and Unlockables, Including Bonus Costumes and Items, and Much More!

Platform: PS3, Xbox 360

Genre: Fighting

This product is available for sale in North America and Europe.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- Revised & Expanded (Xbox360, PC) (Prima Official Game Guide)

Peter Olafson

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An Extended Manual to a great game 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Now here's an extended manual we can all love.

Prima has always been very classy about their guides, even including a few shakey no-no's(initial guide's were not binded very well) they've always managed to put their own personal touches into certain guides, as if to let us now that this is one they enjoyed playing immensely.

Though it does NOT include the Shivering Isle's strategy this is STILL a great purchase for those picking up the game. One of the few guides that help in varying approaches to enemies and bosses.

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Find Your Path!

·Detailed maps for every part of the world and every major city, plus special maps for every key section of the main quest.

·Specific chapters on how to create your character and maximize your abilities and skills.

·Over 400 full-color pages packed with information on everything you need to know about the massive gameworld of Oblivion.

·Walkthroughs for every quest in the game, including the main quest, all faction quests, as well as miscellaneous and freeform quests.

·Sections on various gameplay systems including stealth, combat, magic, spellmaking and enchanting, alchemy, and more.

·Detailed bestiary chapter to help you best deal with the denizens of Tamriel and Oblivion.

·Includes new chapters on Knights of the Nine and Oblivion downloadable content.

Too Human (Prima Official Game Guide)

David Knight

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good material, needs bigger print 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

While the material in the guide is very excellent, the print is quite small at least to me. In Fact, I would have no problem paying a bit more for the guide if the print was larger. I would've liked to see maps for the cyberspace items as well.

Still, all in all a good guide for the game.

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Lead Baldur into battle with a complete step-by-step campaign walkthrough.
Maximize your loot using detailed maps to find every container, obelisk, battle arena, and secret area.
Dominate the battlefield with class-based anti-monster tactics from the developers.
Customize your character with detailed breakdowns of the skill and alignment trees for all five classes.
Breathe in the deep story with complete bios for every character, including their mythological inspirations.