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• Full walkthroughs for every mission.
• Exclusive maps created especially for this guide. Fully labeled to make sure you see it all!
• Every special assignment detailed so you won't take a wrong step.
• Power evolution trees to make unstoppable heroes.
• Complete planetary database to help you mine elements smarter not harder.
• Mass Effect: Redemption comic book preview!
Take the Mass Effect 2 Personality Quiz www.http://www.primagames.com/features/mass-effect-2-quiz/ Find out which class best fits you!
• Exclusive maps created especially for this guide. Fully labeled to make sure you see it all!
• Every special assignment detailed so you won't take a wrong step.
• Power evolution trees to make unstoppable heroes.
• Complete planetary database to help you mine elements smarter not harder.
• Mass Effect: Redemption comic book preview!
Take the Mass Effect 2 Personality Quiz www.http://www.primagames.com/features/mass-effect-2-quiz/ Find out which class best fits you!
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3.1 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews)
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
basic, Jan 28 2010
By D. Levengood "GoldenSphinx" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mass Effect 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
The guide covers the basic basics and captures none of the soul or mythology of the game. Do this. Go there. It does make sure to give nothing away, but does not go into any of the role playing aspects, team dynamics, character creation strategies, battle strategies, companion info, romantic possibilities, conversation choices. All of them are mentioned, but only just. The guide doesn't offer anything the gamer couldn't get on their own, no insight, no great photos, no soul.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the cost, Feb 3 2010
By M. Martin - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mass Effect 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
I've used guides for other games (the Final Fantasy series in particular) to be sure that I've completed all of the side quests, know which weapons have better stats and where to find them, etc., and I wish I had paid attention to the reviews of this guide before I purchased it. I read them while it was in transit, but figured it was only $14 so no harm done if it wasn't quite up to snuff. It's significantly below par.Between talking to your crew between missions, your yeoman giving you a heads up to keep you from forgetting a loyalty quest, the linear nature of the missions and the blue highlighting on the screen when you point the reticule anywhere near a wall safe or other searchable object, you really don't need the walkthrough.
Areas where a walkthrough would be helpful would include better combat tips for difficult fights, including pros and cons of various heavy weapon choices going into a section. However, there is remarkably little along these lines that is useful.
The writer also makes no effort to consolidate upgrade information in a useful way. They tell you what the upgrades do, but not where each of the five damage upgrades for a weapon can be purchased or found. This would have been really useful information if you wanted to focus on getting all of the upgrades for a particular weapon type first, or find all of the damage reduction upgrades as early as possible.
The planet information is displayed in such a horrible table, I would only consider using it to locate planets with Element Zero resources, since as long as you mine the other planets as you need resources, you can generally keep up with research.
All in all, I would *highly* recommend waiting until something gets put together on GameFAQs or other online resource, as it's bound to be much more useful to you. As someone else noted, the maps can be handy... but again, the missions are so linear it's difficult to miss anything unless you're breezing through. The one exception to being easy to find that I've found was the pistol upgrade in the assassin loyalty mission - for which there is no map and the reference is buried in otherwise useless text.
Spend your money elsewhere.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
This guide does not GUIDE!!!, Feb 18 2010
By J.S. Knapp "ViperMan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mass Effect 2: Prima Official Game Guide (Paperback)
I have the collectors edition of this book, which includes some fancy stuff (that really isn't so fancy.) I'm only going to comment on the actual GAME GUIDE material here, which is identical from one version to the next.This book is a GAME GUIDE for a video game. So when I get to a portion of the game and I'm hesitant on which choice to make and I refer to my GAME GUIDE for some insight on what ramifications these choices might have.... ...and the guide tells you COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHOICES than what actually exists in the game... ...then it's automatically a useless product.
The choices on my screen consisted of three different guns to choose. I could only have one, so I was hoping to learn which was the best for my style of gameplay. This Game Guide told me that I could choose between three versions of UPGRADES for my existing weapons, and proceeded to tell me how those tech benefits might affect one particular class (out of 6) for my character. Oh I scanned back and forth to see if I was missing the right section, but nope - the game guide was flat-out wrong.
This is simply unacceptable. If the "official game guide" doesn't have the right information about the "official game" then it's nothing more than a pretty paper weight.
In the end, I use it for the maps, since there are NO maps in the game (idiots.) And since you only get one chance to explore most of these areas, I try to make sure I didn't miss an upgrade or a new weapon, etc. I am quite hesitant to trust it though, at this point.
**UPDATE**
During the last fight, which I apologize for having to spoil here a bit, I encountered an event where one of my team members dies. I don't want him to die, because then I don't get the achievement for keeping everyone alive. After two repeats of this section (thanks to a clever game save spot) I yield the same results. So I turn to the GAME GUIDE! Oh Game Guide of wisdom, tell me what to do! The Game Guide says, "Note: It is possible that one of your team mates may be killed at this point in the game." NO, REALLY?! I HADN'T NOTICED! What advice does the heavenly game guide provide to circumvent this problem? NONE! NOTHING! I have to go online and hit some chat boards to learn that you have to choose a teammate with a history of leadership for this particular section in order to keep him/her alive. OH! Well that makes perfect sense. Why couldn't the OFFICIAL GAME GUIDE have told me this? Ah, the world will never know.
DON'T BUY THIS STUPID BOOK!
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