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Practically Worthless
If it didn't have a short precis of each mission, then it would be completely worthless. I was looking for something more along the lines of one of Andy Herd's FSX reviews found at Flightsim website.And Andy's reviews are free!I paid over $20 for this waste of time and paper.Does the writer, Bart G. Farkas, really think people buying this manual are looking to find out the basics of how a plane stays aloft?We wanted the FSX secrets, the down & dirty stuff that only a collaborator with the programmers could have written.What we got was a 2nd grade book report on the very basics of aviation.Save your money, or review a copy before purchasing. You've been warned.

Fledglin
Although the reviewers of October 14, 2006 rated this FSX Guide very poorly. they have inadvertently strengthened the product by giving a very useful and informative errata to the Guide. We applaud their specificity. We also look forward to an immediate, upgraded corrected FSX Guide from Prim Game Guides.

Poor quality
There are many typographical errors.Even worse, the airspeed info is often inaccurate.For example, on page 107, the Boeing 737-800 is listed with a cruising speed of 477 kt but when you read the next line it states that the maximum speed is 147 kt.
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Must Have
just picked mine up yesterday. Very detailed with all game maps, armor, weapons etc. Great! must have ... Read more

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Deception Guide, Part 2.
The Armageddon guide may seem intimidating and interesting due to the number of pages it's toting - but do not be fooled.
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Essential if you want to experience everything Oblivion has to offer.
If you're buying Oblivion, you might as well buy this guide at the same time. Although you don't need it, having the guide isn't going to ruin the game for you. Nobody said you have to use the walkthroughs to "cheat" your way through the quests. It is all the extra info that make this book worthwhile. The chapters on character creation, combat, spellmaking, and enchanting are very helpful and give you a lot more information than you can learn from the game itself. It's also nice to have a resource to look through to find what all you can do in the game.

Buy it used, not new
Buy a used copy of this guide.If you are playing Oblivion you will need access to this encyclopedia of information.The authors organized the information poorly.You will find your self flipping from page x to page z and then to page y.I suspect the book was on a tight time table, it certainly suffers from lack of thought.Bottom line, you will need the information but you will have to dig through a lot of chaff to find the wheat.Use this book in conjuction with the guides on GameFAQ.This book's main advantage is the maps.Very detailed.At times deep within the book you may find errors, such as place x is located northwest of y, when is really southwest.Also its confusing when they say place x is to the right of place z, when they should say place x is southeast of place z.

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Game Guide
The Elder Scrolls Game Guide is invaluable. It will help you to navigate what is a complex and many faceted game. The game is a great adventure that you can pick and choose many different avenues to explore throughout your quest. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

This Squaresoft-sanctioned book on one of the most highly anticipated console games ever does not disappoint. Those who have managed to obtain a copy of the game (descriptions of rioting and fighting upon the retail release of Final Fantasy IIV sound like sheer hyperbole, but probably aren't) will find plenty of helpful clues, maps, and general game play advice. Those less fortunate can at least take solace in--or further whet their appetites with--the hundreds of beautiful glossy screen shots that fill each chapter. ... Read more

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No Good At ALL
This is one of the worst game guides I have read in my life...and I've read a few. I got it back in '97 when the game first came out and spoiled everything (even THE big event at the end of the first disc). I later got the guide from Versus Books and it blew this pathetic book out of the water. It spoiled nothing and had twice the amount of useful secrets (including materia combos). Don't waste your time (and money) with this joke. Thankfully, BRADYGames realized its idiocy, fixed it, and got it right for FFVIII's guide (which basically aped FFVII's Versus Books' guide's style). Then they ruined it again with that awful, useless FFIX guide. I guess money grubbers never learn. And guys, you're supposed to be reviewing the GUIDE, not the game...

Terrible...
I guess this is an okay guide if you just want to get the game over with, but why would you waste your time doing that? This guide misses out on so much. I've found items on my own that weren't even mentioned in the guide. The bestiary has no organization and it's still missing many monsters/enemies. You can tell that they tried to make it in the order that you'll encounter the enemies, but many of them can be found before and many of them aren't even listed at all. The weapons, items, and materials information at the end is not detailed enough. "Side Areas" lacks organizations and it isn't very helpful. Where is the help on Enemy Skills? On the walkthrough section, they don't even tell you the right buttons most of the time (not that you need it, though). The numbering/lettering system gets a little bit confusing. A lot of their "strategies" are based on the same party that they like to use. Not everyone likes to use Aeris, especially if they have played the game before. I could go on and on but I don't want to bore you. On a side note, the PC version (black and white, I can't find it anywhere anymore) by the same author was so much better. Everything that this guide lacked was in the PC version (except for color, but they made that up by having color maps and stuff in the back).

Product damage
The service was great I recieved my package within a week, but when i opened it i noticed that the book was damaged due to the poor handling. I guess if your looking to just have the guide for reference then you won't have a problem but if you want it for keeps then you might want to order it with some bigger stuff so it doesn't get damaged on the way. ... Read more

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Exactly what it says it is
This atlas is exactly what it claims to be - a book of game maps and charts telling approximately where most everything is. Brady did mess up the colors of the flight paths, but anyone who's got even one flight path can figure that out in 5 seconds or less. The book was published in December 2005 and game content including new flight paths and auction houses has been added since then, so they won't show up in the atlas. This is not the fault of Brady.
Good for some things, not the end-all, be-all
First of all, this is a lovely piece of bookcraft -- a well-made, well-bound, solid book with full color pages, well-typeset, and easy to read.That's enough for a star all by itself in my eyes.
Simply put, an atlas
A crazy woman tore up my world of warcraft guide while I was vacationing last summer, and when I searched the local game stores, they said the information was too outdated that it was out of print, and for some reason my mother blieved that.
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Two Years Later and I Still Use This Thing...Sometimes.
Even though it is two years old (and I've been playing for about that amount of time) it still has some helpful info. Of course it doesnt have any of the recent higher level things because when this guide came out there were'nt that many high level players. Also SE does not want to give away too much end game information. SE wants people to keep paying money to find out for themselves. Even though some of the quest are a bit dated it gives me a starting point. Without this guide to show me certain quests I wouldn't even know where to start to look online for it. Oh, and about the job info, the guide was written the way SE intented the jobs to be used, not the way the players use them now (Ninja was never supposed to be a tank you know.) But anyway...to the real points >>>
Outdated, and polluted with bad editorial and misinformation
Final Fantasy XI is an MMORPG's with a developer actively supporting it as well as a dedicated user base creatively finding new ways of putting play mechanisms in more and more clever uses.It's a living environment, which no book can ever come close to detailing, and no book can present you with anything better than an incomplete snapshot in time, forever left behind by all the regular game mechanism tweaks and new item additions.
Good For Those Who Are Just Getting Into The Game On Their Own
Like my title for this review states, I'd say that this guide is pretty good for how "old" it is (or how long it has been out for). But it helped me get into the game and get started pretty well once I started playing Final Fantasy XI on the PC for the first time. For those who think it is there to guide you all the way through this great MMORPG, think again, because it is just to help you get around in the beginning, not complete the game. In my experience and with the experience with my friends that play "MMO's" it is quite difficult to complete a MMORPG, especially one like FF XI. If you're one individual that is just getting into MMO's, pick up FF XI and the guide to help you with your first few adventures in the grand world of MMORPG's.
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Not Bad, But Heavily Disorgnaized.
A game as big and as full of extras and secrets as Lego Star Wars II, you mayneed a leg up.Getting some of the hidden Lego Canisters and figuring out what you have to do in Freeplay mode can be bothersome.So of course, there's a strategy guide to give you a leg up.You may find you need it, but on the whole, the guide could've been way better.It isn't that the guide is bad, it's that it's heavily disorganized.
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great book with new ideas
Very original with more incites than any other book about online poker.There is no guarantees with poker as you may know, and even less of a guarantee with online poker. But there are new straties and ideas to consider in this book. If you can still play online poker i strongly recommened this book

Packed with good tips
I give this book a thumbs up.I enjoy reading poker books, but many of them have the same advice.I found this book to have plenty of new, exciting strategies and tips.

OK for the absolute beginner.
Not much in there for anyone who has already migrated from the basics. ... Read more

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Unique is not best, but best in it's class
This is not the best hands-on, how-to book about designing your ownUnreal Tournament mod but it is the only book available. Thus, like the first Gutenberg printing press, it's the best in it's class! In the tutorials the authors assume that you already know as much about the Unreal Editor as they do. If you do not know the in's and out's and idiotsyncrasies of the Unreal Editor(which is why I bought the book in the first place) you will learn new definitions of patience during the first 23 chapters. In the end you will thank the authors for their altruism and capatalistic guile without which this knowledge would not be publicly available. Thank G-d and the great Satan for freedom of information! Thank America for the freedom to say this!

Great Book!
I was brand new to all aspects of game design, and I had no idea where to start.So I opened up the book preview in the Unreal Tournament folder and saw this book.I went up to borders and bought it a week later.I've had this book for almost 3 weeks now, and Holy Crap!From the start, it explains the history of the Unreal engine and gives you a close up look of all the tools used.It has in-depth tutorials that make designing your first map a breeze.The CD contained in the book also has the May 5 Personal Learning Edition on it.In fact, the CD is my only complaint.This book expects you to use the CD for every texture and static mesh used.Overall, the book is a must buy for any begginner.

Unreal Mapping.
This book is the best and only one book published in Unreal technology nobody beat this tutorial book for mapping in Unreal tournament 2004 I recommend this thick book to anyone wanting to master the Unreal editor.
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great help
helped me get through a part i was stuck on. if you need help on the game this book is for you.

Great
The product was in excellent condition and the shipping was the fastest I have seen to be from regular postal service. It got here less than a week.

great book for a great game!
This is a great guide it gives you help without giving away the plot of the game. I found it very helpful and I bet you will to! The book is easy to follow and so are the maps within. I can't imagin that anything could have been left out. I love this guide! ... Read more

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Mediocre guide for a complex, fun game...
I have to start by saying that I really don't think this is a "poor" guide, per se, but it's definitely not one of Bradygames' better ones.I've noticed a distinct pattern in Bradygames' guides - they tend to alternate in quality, with one being great and the next being useless.The guide for Dragon Quest VIII wasn't good, for example, but the guide for Xenosaga: Episode 3 was great.Unfortunately, the pattern continues here, as this guide for Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria is mediocre, an overall disappointment. Read more

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Not Nearly Good Enough
If only size were everything, this guide would be excellent. About the dimensions of a trade paperback but much thicker, Double Jump's guide for Disgaea 2 promises the moon but fails to deliver.
Great in-depth info for the hardcore gamer at the expense of basic info
At 640 pages, this is one chunky guide aimed at the hardcore Disgaea 2 player. Unfortunately, the guide is aimed solely at thistheoretical hardcore gamer - the one planning to spend 200+ hours on the game, continuing to play it to death long after completion of the main storyline for the sole purpose of attaining the highest stats and inflicting the most damage. To this end, the guide is impeccable; multi-page chapters go into microscopic detail on how to exploit the game's many systems in order to create ultimate items, "powerlevel" characters so that they inflict (literally) billions of points of damage with a single attack, and so on.
DoubleJump has raised the bar even higher....
For the last couple years, DoubleJump Books has been making increasingly better strategy guides for games (most of which seem to be from Atlus). While the guide looks more like a traditional book than the larger guides most people are used to seeing in videogame stores (those of BradyGames and Prima primarilly), they tend to contain the most in depth strategies of any of the publishers.
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Get It But Expect Some Disappointment
The main goal in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is not to actually complete the game, but to get 100 percent in the process, and that is a difficult thing to do without a guide. Problem is, this guide isn't perfect and there really aren't many out there that are perfect, so this is the best there is.
buy or not to buy
I found the book for the most part useful.The breakdowns of the missions are very handy.some of the hints they offer slow the mission down if you use them.the main reason i bought it was for the maps for the oysters and other little goodies that need to be found.And this is where it gets a little weak. They use big dots on the map to show where each location is.well that makes it a little bit of guess work.it gives you a general location.the photos they use are also very tiny and sometimes of little use.but overall the book is good and helpful!

Its sad really...
I, like so many other's, was stupid enough to buy this guide not realising the mystery's within. I still havnt got %100 thanks to this guide and can say now that i will never buy a Bradly guide again.
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Not DoubleJumps best, but not bad either
This guide is probably the guide that most people will consider to be one of DoubleJumps worst. Not because it is bad, but because it is, well, different. We are all used to DoubleJump guides being small and crammed to the brink with detail. This one is distributed through Prima so it is a full sized guide and as far as the detail, there isn't nearly as much to include. Almost all other DoubleJump guides are for epic RPGs and Tactical RPGs, games where there is so much stats and details that they will be huge guides. Since Devil Summoner is an action RPG, there simply isn't nearly the same amount of things to include to create a huge guide. What this one does have though, is sufficient. Read more

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lvl60 hunter says...
The first thing to keep in mind is that this strategy guide was written for the beta version of WoW.MMO's being what they are, have changed drastically from the earlier version that this guide was written for.Also, be aware that to get the "updated" material you must purchase a WoW binder from the publisher.Finally, before my review, this guide has more typos than any other publication I have ever seen.
All I can say is WoW WhatA Guide!!
This is by far the best guide I have ever owned and I have a feeling it will be the best guide i ever own. It has everything u can think of and more!! along with the game manual you will never be stumped again which is saying alot for a game like World of Warcraft!!

World of Warcraft Strategy Guide
You can thank my son for this purchase.He told me to buy the guide to help me thru this maze of a game.It's been great because now we can talk online together thru the game and the guide has been very helpful. ... Read more

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