Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 794 EAN: 9780761528982 ISBN: 0761528989 Label: Prima Games Manufacturer: Prima Games Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: April 19, 2000 Publisher: Prima Games Release Date: May 03, 2000 Sales Rank: 1185599 Studio: Prima Games
Product Description: StarCraft: Prima's Official Strategy Guide is an invaluable tool for Blizzard's newest war sim. This guide gives complete statistics for terran, Protoss, and Zerg species. The book has detailed maps for all 30 single player missions as well as tips for defeating opponents in multiplayer mode. Each of the units used by the warring races is explained in detail, with advice on how best to use them. Plus the StarCraft: Prima's Official Strategy Guide includes advice on using the Campaign Editor to create your own StarCraft battle fields.
Amazon.com Review: StarCraft: Prima's Official Strategy Guide is the perfect reference for solo play. The guide provides detailed walk-throughs for each of the game's 30 levels, with clearly marked maps and screen shots to help illustrate important points and tactics. The book offers more than 50 pages of statistics on the various units available and an easy-to-follow list of general strategies. Statistical information about the game's units and buildings, a section dedicated to the StarCraft campaign editor, and a brief multiplayer primer for gameplay on Battle.net round out the guide. --Michael Ryan
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Entirely worthless
It's slim - like a pamphlet - and infuriatingly replaces the manual in the Starcraft Battle Chest. The guide to the single player missions is reasonable, but they tend to be simplistic in any case (make a base or two, build a lot of defense, and crank out The Unstoppable Army so you can sweep the map in one massive wave.)
The unit descriptions and tactical advice are worth a buck or two at most; you'd be better off just fooling around with the units on your own to see what they do. Passages range from accurate but non-informative to flat out wrong - for example, the author claims one powerful spell that protects your units from all ranged attacks only works against air-to-ground fire. Captions often have nothing to do with their picture, which has nothing to do with the page.
There is a very brief section on multiplayer strategies, and it's the worst in the book. In describing the new layer of depth multiplayer adds, he offers this possibility (from memory):
"For example, if you say to your opponent "I hope your flank is protected", what should he think? Are you really about to attack his flank? This is the kind of thing that brings multiplayer to a different level from single player."
Nothing more needs to be said.
Rating: - Has the writer even PLAYED this game?
Everything in this book is wrong, except for the unit stats, but even then some of them are outdated (but we won't hold that against prima). However, being how this was published 2 years after the original release of SC, you'd think that it would have some better multiplayer strategies than "always pay attention" and "a good defense is a good offense." The single player strategies consist of "build cannons at choke" and "build big army." Multiplayer strategy is a joke. If you really want to get better, go download some pro replays; this guide will just make your game worse.
Rating: - Basics Only
Basic information. Some helpful - some copies of the user manual. Good help on scenarios. No help on playing multi-player.
Rating: - Starcraft 1 strategy guide
It is very helpful. especialy the cheats :D
Rating: - Excellent for beginners as well as pros
What can I say, I could have never enjoyed this game without this book, don't hesitate buy it if you can, and if its still available, if you want to play this game intelligently and victoriously
- Entirely worthless
- Basics Only
- Starcraft 1 strategy guide
