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First let me say that the omissions noted by the other reviewers are correct. A detailed index to the quests would be helpful. I've have had to thumb through the various quests within a general category to find the side quest I'm solving. Once you are on a major category, like the Mages Guild stuff, the manual trundles right along, quest after quest, and you can follow them in order as you proceed, with no need for an index, just a book marker. The trick is to stay off random side quests that someone in the game requests. Just say no. Stick to the main categorical quests and the manual can be your best friend.
If you get duped into a solving a random quest while solving individual quests under a general category, there is plenty of online help for locating random quests; one site provides a detailed world map. My old friend google helped me find them.
So, why buy this laboriously-written manual?
First of all, it's beautifully illustrated, well-written, and almost devilishly detailed. To locate a random quest - I should have said `no' to the bugger -- I go to a website which is nicely indexed, and follow the walk-through. Usually, the Prima version when I find it is more complete and helpful than the on-line walk-through.
The world map the game itself provides (Play Station 3) is helpful, as well as its individual maps. The game provides pointers on the map to follow and also on its compass when your role-playing hombre is trudging through hill and dale.
From my experience, I have found the manual well-worth purchasing. I recommend buying it, and am giving it five stars.
Someone put tons of work into this manual, a work of love, and should be financially compensated, this at the very least.
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As mentioned in other reviews, the Maps chapter was omitted from the actual printing.
To make it clear, for people who have purchased the book and made this discovery, that chapter is available for download on Prima's website page for the book.
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I have purchased many Prima guides in the past and have never been disapointed. That is until now.
I purchased this guide with the game and had a difficult time understanding the information presented to me in the guide. After looking it over for a long time I have come to realize that there is an entire chapter missing. Of course it has to be the most important chapter that belongs in the guide, the map chapter. Throughout the guide there are references to the maps chapter including specific number points on specific maps but as I said previously no maps.
The second reason I had a difficult time is that the layout is terrible. The guide starts off with basic gameplay, goes into "the main quest" section and then extra information pertaining to the main quest. After that is a duplicate layout with duplicate named sections but it all pertains to the shivering isles expansion. There is no way to tell that this second section pertains only to the shivering isles.
These are both big errors on Primas part but they are forgivable. What is not is the reaction of Prima to the concerns of the people who own this guide and want the maps. Look in the official primagames.com forums and you will find that Prima wants to fix the problem, and I use the term fix losely, by sending a pdf containing the maps to people and have them
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As game guides go, this one is both good and bad.
The production value for this guide is great. It is well made. The print is clear and it is printed on good quality paper. You'll be able to spend a great deal of time thumbing through all the info contained in the almost 500 pages.
It has a wealth of good information. And there in lays the problem. There are numerous mistakes in it. First of all, there are constant references to a Map chapter. None of the sections have chapter numbers. Just page numbers. And the map section is missing several important maps. Some sections are greatly detailed while others are not even close to being complete. Also the text jumps above some of the section titles. It is almost like someone forgot to proofread this book one last time before it shipped. To be fair, this is a guide for a huge game. Unlike Pokemon, I guess they could not "catch'em all."
If you do not mind a multitude of minor errors, then this is a decent game guide. Just be prepared to make repeated use of online FAQs and guides to help you understand what this book gets wrong.
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First let me say that the mistake was largely mine for not doing enough research before wasting my money. However, that does not excuse the lousy presentation of this guide, and especially not the false advertising (as another reviewer has pointed out) on the back. When a book says it contains something on the back cover, it better contain it, not mislead me. Not only that, but they had to wrap it in plastic too so I could not take a look inside to see what I was actually paying for.
The world map and cities' maps are nonexistent. You can download the map pages that should have been part of the book from the start, as if you didn't buy the guide to avoid having to refer to the internet in the first place. There is no index, and the table of contents is absolutely useless. For a 496-page book, this guide sure is incomplete and very poorly organized. I don't recommend buying it even used, since you'll be referring more to the internet anyway.
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