World Famous Comics: Fallout 3 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide
Fallout 3 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide
By: David Hodgson Publisher: Prima Games Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Prima Games Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 496 Publication Date: October 28, 2008 Release Date: October 28, 2008
Product Description: Exclusive Collector's Edition content! Get a view behind the scenes into the creation of the most anticipated game of the year! A gigantic tour of the Capital Wasteland with over 100 maps showing nearly every area in the game. Every major ammo and health cache, Bobblehead, Skill Book, Unique Weapon, Weapon Schematic, Mini Nuke, and more! Expert tactical advice on utilizing V.A.T.S. combat techniques, how best to allocate your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities, plus which skills to pick as your adventure progresses. Examples for creating different types of characters, from heavy-weapon specialists to stealthy lockpicking pros. Multiple tactics and tips for every Main, Miscellaneous, and Freeform quest, including exhaustive notes on every single activity you can attempt, anywhere in the game. Flowcharts and every major Karmic choice detail exactly where your decisions lead. Plus: All you need to know about completing all endings. Giant map poster to guide you through the Wasteland! Rugged Hardcover edition for extra survivability.
Awesome Guide, Very Detailed A fantastic guide for an amazing game. Everything you would ever need to know about Fallout 3. The book itself is made very well. I wish more game guides were hard cover.
no falling out over this title This book is EASILY worth the $35 I spent on it. Even without reading through it, instead flipping through at the beginning, I found it to be the best guide to a PC game I've ever seen. The depth of absolutely everything this book alludes to is amazing. The graphics and composition is no less astounding, and at 500 pages, this is actually a bargain. ([...]) This turned out OK though, as yesterday I found several copies of the book on my local BestBuy shelves! I snatched it and ran not looking back. At home I was taken aback by the quality of the guide...) ...as Fallout 3 isn't a very straight forward game (and this is the first Fallout title I've played) - to me this guide came in very handy. I don't exactly believe the "collectible" label that gets thrown around all to often these days, but this book, in my opinion, is totally worth it.
A great help Before I review the guide I just want to say that I love the game itself. I'm very fond of the storyline to Fallout 3 and when the game is run at high end settings it's visually stunning (I'm a huge supporter of Bethesda work particularly Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Oblivion).
In my opinion the guide is great. As a reviewer stated before it is a much appreciated move on the publishers part to make it hard cover because with use pages DO fall out. And that can get very exasperating, particularly during a one-hour search for the one page that just happens to have the weak point of the boss you're facing now on it but, of course, has fallen out.
The guide is an amazing help, with statistics and charts that could satisfy even the most hard core D&D player secreted away underneath that cool "uber" gamer exterior. It goes into great length about the different story lines and presents everything very clearly. The maps are incredibly helpful and accurate.
So what about Prima you may ask. Is this a fluke of good guide writing?
Well I've been playing video games for many years now (since 1995) and the first real game (I don't count kid games even though I still love Commander Keen) I ever played was called X-com UFO Defense, a very well respected and wonderful turn based/real time strategy game ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-com ) The strategy guide I used for it was published by, you guessed it, Prima games and thus started the large amount of faith I have had in them. I have always trusted them with my game guides and this is another great example of why: perfectly clear information that is well organized and commented on by people who know what they're talking about and want to help make the game easier yet still fun to play.
My best game guides are Prima published: Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, Jet Force Gemini, Super Smash Brothers, Perfect Dark, Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, Assassin's creed, Battlefield 2, X-com (Defense, Terror From the Deep, and Apocalypse), Command and Conquer, Sim city 3000 and the list goes on.
I've played a lot of games in my time and because of that I've read a lot of guides. I keep an open mind and read other publisher's versions, but at the register I always find a Prima copy in my arms. This guide for Fallout 3 is no deviation from their long and well held track record of amazingly clear and helpful guides.
If you have the game, GET this book, you have no idea how much it will help.
Seemingly authoritative While this book seems authoritative and is very complete it is not always fully accurate and makes assumptions about how a player will approach the game. The author obviously spent a great deal of time on the work. It allows a player to read only enough to get past tricky spots or to explore more indepth the detail of the game. The author seems to be a hard core gamer and games the system as opposed to immersing himself in the story. Still for a person looking for details on how to game the system or to get a specific result it is very valuable. The map of the play area is big enough for detail but might have been better if it used the same graphics as are used in the game rather than inventing a new system for identifying places.
A must have. This is a most awesome game guide, for the most awesome game ever.
Shows you all the locations for every quest in game. It also discusses each and every perk in the game and it's value to you, the gamer. There is a beautiful map with every pertinent location in game listed. You cannot go wrong by getting yourself this game guide. It is also asthetically pleasing, with beautiful graphics and font.
MY favorite thing is it lists the location of all collectible bobble heads....I simply must have them all!
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