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Resistance 2 Signature Series Guide

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Resistance is "Fertile" 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The Bradygames guide for Resistance 2 is basically two guides in one. It contains everything you need for the single player campaign as well as the co-op campaign. Design and layout are top notch. Photos are large and clear. The level descriptions are easy to follow (although the type is pretty small). There are lots of hints given on how to defeat certain enemies. There is a large fold out in the back of the guide that lists all of the trophies as well as cool concept art. All of the multiplayer options are explained with painstaking detail. There is a lot of instruction on how to coordinate your efforts as a team as well as individually in co-op and competitive modes.

Bradygames usually puts out high quality guides, and this one is no exception. This is a rich guide that will surely enhance your game playing experience. You'll notice I used the word "fertile" in my title. Well, this guide will help you get the most out of the game, which focuses more attention on "growing" the multiplayer component and expanding the Resistance universe with two campaigns. I couldn't ask for more.

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BradyGames’ Resistance 2 Signature Series Guide includes the following:

• A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire battle to defeat the Chimera invasion.
• WEAPONS COVERAGE: Detailed data on the entire arsenal of weapons
• BOSS TACTICS: Expert strategies to defeat every boss
• MULTIPLAYER STRATEGIES: Extensive multiplayer coverage, including tips to dominate the unprecedented squad-based battles
• Signature Series guide features bonus foldout and more!

Platform: PlayStation 3

Genre: Shooter

Tom Clancy's End War: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

Michael Knight

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• Maps for each battlefield
• Complete walkthrough of the single player campaign
• Battle-tested combat tactics for the 21st Century
• Proven strategies for the Theater of War persistent online campaign
• Details on all units complete with upgrades

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

Catherine Browne

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•Crack open every Mumbo Crate to stock your garage with free vehicle parts!
•Build awesome cars, planes, and helicopters with our full guide to Mumbo's Motors.
•Full-color maps of every world show all challenge locations and unlockable parts!
•Find every single hidden Jiggy in Showdown Town with our secret tips.
•Strategies for earning every Jiggy and Trophy so your bank is totally golden.

Far Cry 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

David Knight

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Excellent Guide 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

The Far Cry 2 strategy guide from Prima is excellent. It covers all platforms (PC, PS3, and 360). The level descriptions are very helpful in that they not only give suggestions on how to proceed, but they often give hints at the political climate within each mission. This serves to heighten the intrigue and tension of the game. The photos are clear and large. There is a lot of text to read through, so you don't come away scratching your head thinking "that's nice, but now what?" There are nice bios on all the characters. The weapons are all fully explained. The multiplayer options are gone over extensively. You can't lose with this guide.

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Maps: Detailed maps of the entire Far Cry 2 world including locations of all 220 Diamonds and 16 Jackal tapes.
Environment: Developer tips and tricks to help you learn to leverage your environment and give you the upper hand in any situation.
Weapons: Exclusive content on the breakdown of all weapons such as damage, range, accuracy, and reliability stats to help you choose the right tools for the job.
Multiplayer: Labeled maps of ammo piles, vehicles and more! Details on the Persistent System which handles each class, upgrade, and rank to give you an edge in online battles.

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

Stephen Stratton

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Not a guide for the Nintendo DS game 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I thought this guide would give me the secrets to beating the game, but it only caused confusion. Most of the information in the guide book was extremely different from the game. I was very disappointed.

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You Call Him Dr. Jones, Doll!: Extensive walkthrough for every adventure and tight situation in all three movies, including Free Play Mode!

X Never, Ever Marks the Spot: Detailed area maps get you to your objectives as well as reveal the locations of artifact, parcels, and more!

Dr. Jones, the Eminent Archeologist: Complete information on all characters’ strengths and weaknesses, plus their unique weapons and abilities.

Give Me the Whip!: Tips on how to unlock hidden characters, levels, and other goodies.

Bonus Content: Concept Art Section!

Guide covers Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, PS2, PSP, and PC!



Free Preview includes: The Lost Temple: Area 1 walkthrough, basics, and characters.
Guide Update includes: Free Achievements, Parcels and Character/Item Codes!

Final Fantasy XII Signature Series Guide

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Must Have Final Fantasy Guide 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

If you want to enjoy your Final Fantasy experience you must get this book. Otherwise you have a long road ahead of you.

Does its job... 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This guide is pretty informative. Lists all the secrets, side quests, armor, weapons, monsters, and all the stuff a strategy guide should cover.

My only complaint is I wish they would integrate more of the secrets into the gameplay section, because I feel like I am missing some of the secret stuff and have to go back later and get it.

Other than that, it is good.

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BradyGames’ Final Fantasy XII Signature Series Guide includes the following:

• A complete walkthrough of the entire game.
• Detailed area maps.
• In-depth listing of items and equipment.
• Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest boss.
• Extensive bestiary.
• Signature Series guide features bonus foldout and more!

Platform: PlayStation 2

Genre: Role-Playing Game

This product is available for sale in North America only.

Dead Space: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

Fernando Bueno

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Exactly what i needed 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

What more can you ask for:

1. It details all the monsters you will face
2. Its a complete detailed walkthrough
3. Details all the main characters
4. Details all the Weapons and the best way to Use/upgrade them
5. Maps of all areas
6. Clearly written with good english
7. And general tactics for surviving through this deep space ordeal!

Thank you agin Prima for a great helpfull book

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•Walkthrough: Extensive step-by-step walkthrough for all 12 levels.
•Maps: Detailed maps pinpointing points of interest and equipment pickups.
•Tactics: Learn to master your alternate powers like Kinesis and Stasis, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of all enemies and weapons and how you can exploit them.
•Achievements and Trophies: Complete list of all Xbox 360 Achievements and PlayStation 3 Trophies!

Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide, Playstation Version

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Awesome Guide!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This guide is great, it covers everything in the entire game. It even arrived 2 days earlier than expected!! Definitely worth the money.

Cloud and Aerith chill with Sephiroth 4 out of 5 stars.
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Finally playing out FFVII to learn the original story. This walkthrough is a helpful guide through the complex world of Midgar, Shinra, Cloud and party, Chocobos and monsters. Loads of technical info help equip Materia and items, weapons and accessories properly.
The relatively low resolution of the Playstation game is a difficulty present generation gamers need help with (like me). It is sometimes hard to tell just what is going on when the charachters look like they are Lego people shooting pixels.
At times I found the walkthrough maps dense, too dark, and filled with letters and numbers not easy to relate to a legend.
The sequence of your wanderings is essential for a coherent story. This walkthrough pays close attention to this need and has allowed me to experience the memorable encounters and hi-res scenes recently recreated in Advent Children so well.
This walkthrough is already dog-eared and worn though I'm barely halfway through. I'm sure it will have served me well to the 'Final' boss.

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With the Official Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide gamers have the opportunity to save their world from an evil corporation which is siphoning off energy from the planet. Complete walkthroughs and all the maps help players navigate the game. Character descriptions, complete lists of items, monsters and magic and the revelation of all the secrets help players defeat the evil corporation. The ONLY Guide with COMPLETE Coverage of the American Game! Find over 350 full-color maps, ultimate weapons, extreme breaks, complete bestiary, walkthroughs, character bios, boss strategies, materia combinations, and more.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides)

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Better Than Nothing... But Not By Much 2 out of 5 stars.
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This is a Prima Guide, so one expects it to have some errors and oversights. In the past, one could always turn to Nintendo Power for higher quality guides, but now that the NP guides are no longer made, we're stuck with Prima. This guide is a good example of why I never have liked to buy Prima guides.

Let's start with the good news. The Dungeon pages in this guide do list info about things such as item and level restrictions. The color coding for different sections of the Pokedex is nice. Also, this guide does have a full Pokedex complete with numerical lv. 1 stats, however, it does NOT list every place that the Pokemon can be found (it only tells one place), and the footprints (useful for the Sentry minigame) are not listed either.

Now for the bad news. The data sections (from the quiz at the start of the game to the item tables) are not alphabetized, a fact that makes the tables needlessly hard to use. The item tables do not list the selling price of items. There is no list of Wonder Mails so you can get the Pokemon exclusive to each version. Don't expect to find suggested partners for each starter, either. The Dungeon overview pages will not tell you what items to expect to find in each dungeon, so you either have to guess or keep your own notes. The basic strategy info on Pokemon moves from each Dungeon is pretty useless. While the info is true, I think most Pokemon fans already know this. I would have much rather seen level ranges of Pokemon within the dungeon and a list of items found therein (as well as rarities), instead of useless info about the moves of Pokemon in the dungeon. Also, I dislike that the Recommended Path for the game was placed in front of the the Game Mechanics section. It would make more sence to place it between the Game Mechanics and Walkthrough sections, making it harder to ruin the story for yourself when you flip to the Game Mechanics section for a particular piece of info.

In short, my advice is to skip this guide and print off a decent walkthrough from a free site. This game has no significant maps, and the only grapical data you might actually need (the footprints) is absent from this guide anyway. With the non-alphabetized data sections, those who own this guide will likely find themselves printing off needed info from an online walkthrough anyway.

A side note for those who don't know what a game guide is (and think that perhaps it is a book about Pokemon for kids to read): A game guide (a.k.a. Strategy Guide) is a publication that is supposed to tell everything about a game. It is useful for choosing strategies and completing every aspect of a game, but it is not a story book. It is more akin to an Atlas or Encyclopedia and is typically used as reference by serious players. While it does require some reading skills, it is only useful to those who have a copy of the games (which games also require reading skills).

Signed, Pamela

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Is it time to face the darkness?
You'll be prepared with this strategy guide from the experts!

Welcome back, fearless explorers, to the spelunking world of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon! Get ready to scour the caves, forests, and lava pools of a brand-new Pokémon world, where you are the main attraction--a human who has become a Pokémon!

Start out with an explanation of everything you need to know about Pokémon Mysery Dungeon!
Check out an extensive and thorough walkthrough of the scenario mode!
Reference our amazing Pokédex of 491 Pokémon for all moves, Abilities, and more!
End with our in-depth post-story walkthrough, which includes more challenges and mysterious Pokémon!
Bonus! Two mini posters!

Final Fantasy X Official Strategy Guide

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BradyGames FINAL FANTASY X Official Strategy Guide contains a comprehensive walkthrough with detailed strategy to steer you in the right direction, complete with unbeatable strategy, and without plot spoilers! The unstoppable boss strategy provides powerful tactics to topple every boss in the game! Secrets revealed to unlock every character's legendary weapon. Every side quest and mini-game uncovered to help you become the ultimate blitzer! All-inclusive bestiary lets you discover the strengths and weaknesses of every fiend in the game and the spoils rewarded for defeating them. Game secrets include secret world map locations and airship passwords. Plus, area maps, detailed item, weapon, and armor inventories are also included!

This Signature Series guide combines quality design and innovative content, serving as the ultimate FINAL FANTASY X resource. Some of the features in this guide include a special cover treatment, exclusive interviews, and an exclusive two-sided poster, with sphere grid & Rikku's overdrive, and mix.