Master of Orion III: Prima Official Strategy Guide: Amazon.ca: David Ellis: Books

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Master the galaxy in nine easy steps
·Proven techniques for exploring, expanding, and exploiting your empire
·Comprehensive stats on every race, ship, and weapon in the galaxy
·Essential strategies for diplomacy and politics
·Advice for immersive single-player gaming
·Sound multiplayer tactics for exterminating your rivals in real-time combat
·Complete technology trees for every race
·Guide to tactical galactic combat

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1.0 out of 5 stars book and game pretty worthless, April 14 2003

By	Keith W. Oschman (Deltona, Fla USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Got MOO3 and the guide for my birthday. Both are pretty wortheless, but the guide especially so since it is no guide. If you loved Alpha Cnetauri or the Civ games, you'll be severly disappointed with MOO3 and the strategy guide.

See other reviews for details. Don't waste your money on this...

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1.0 out of 5 stars not a strategy guide, April 6 2003

By	Jon Bellini "book maven" (Boston,MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

its more like a manual spin-off than a strategy guide. It doesn't tell you how to do anything. It has lame tutorials for all the races and it only gives you some *hints* (all of which you can find out online). The whole book basically leaves it up to you figure everything out.

It could have been so many times better. Its almost like the person who wrote it never played it and just read the manual and interviewed the staff to get some details.

Instead of giving you strategies and tips on how to play more effeciently or giving you different styles of play, it just goes through all the screens one at a time and repeats most of whats in the manual.

The name of book is false advertisment. It should be named:
Master of Orion 3: The Ultimate Space Strategy Game: Prima's Official Redundant Manual

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your $$$$, Mar 21 2003

By	Steven Horton "Adm. Adama for President!" (Gadsden, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this "guide" is practically worthless! it does NOT explain ANYTHING that is not explained in the manual, even with as much as there was that was left unexplained by that dicument. there are not really any "strategies" in this "strategy guide". i know that it is not possible to write a walkthrough for a game of this type, but i was hoping for a guide to explain the many things that the manual did not, like specific measures to combat unrest, etc. this book does not do that. the only things i found useful in this book are explanations in game terms of what each Orion Senate proposal does and explanations for what tone of voice, so to speak, to use in diplomatic offers to the different races. it also rates each race in terms of "playability" that is marginally useful. if i had it to do over again i would NOT buy this book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars no reason to buy it now
it is Feb 25th and the game is out
no reason to buy this guide to whet your appetite
no reason to preview the game
get better information online
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Published on Feb 26 2003 by Patrick J McGraw

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth Much In My Book...
I have yet to write a review and I am reluctant to write one about a strategy guide before the game is even released, but I found myself compelled. Read more

Published on Feb 15 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Useless to semi-usefull (depends on how in-game guides are)
If the in-game help is as good as Civ3's Civilopedia + Scenario Editor then this book will be completely useless for anything but newbie strategies. Read more

Published on Jan 26 2003 by Jesse Roberge

4.0 out of 5 stars Great guide (and teaser, I might add...)
Semi in-depth and mouth-watering guide to one of my most awaited games in 2002-2003. Guide lists all races, techs and strategies for each race. Read more

Published on Jan 9 2003 by James Davis