Simcity 3000 : Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Sim City 3000 States the Obvious
Review: This book tells you what you can learn in a couple of hours playing the game. The chapters have little real helpful information. The obvious is stated rather dryly and with little creativity. My previous experience with this series has been very good. I expected more. I wish I had checked this site before buying this book. There are a few interesting facts, very few, and the price of the book far outweighs the small bits of usable information.

Rating:
Summary: Sim City 3000 States the Obvious
Review: This book tells you what you can learn in a couple of hours playing the game. The chapters have little real helpful information. The obvious is stated rather dryly and with little creativity. My previous experience with this series has been very good. I expected more. I wish I had checked this site before buying this book. There are a few interesting facts, very few, and the price of the book far outweighs the small bits of usable information.

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Summary: All it really does is repeat what was in the manual!
Review: This help guide states it the begining that it will not repeat many of the objectives that the manual has gone over, however with the exception of a few helpful charts this book really isn't worth the money, because it does repeat a lot of things, there are not any cheat codes either.

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Summary: Good info, but errors make it confusing
Review: This is better than the other SC3k guides out there, but it's hardly great. Some of the charts such as NIMBY and land value effects are great, but they can also be contradictory, probably due to stupid mistakes that should've been caught in editing. They really should fix all the problems with this guide and re-release it. A game this good deserves a better guide and a game this difficult warrants one.

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Summary: Good info, but errors make it confusing
Review: This is better than the other SC3k guides out there, but it's hardly great. Some of the charts such as NIMBY and land value effects are great, but they can also be contradictory, probably due to stupid mistakes that should've been caught in editing. They really should fix all the problems with this guide and re-release it. A game this good deserves a better guide and a game this difficult warrants one.

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Summary: Best available...but that isn't saying much
Review: This is probably the best strategy guide available for SimCity 3000...but that isn't much of a compliment. Considering what an excellent game this is, I find this surprising. The guide did provide a lot of indepth and technical information about the game--I'm not sure how useful it is but it's there anyway. However, the book reiterates a lot of info over and over again which makes for tedious reading. I'd recomend this book only because there isn't really a better alternative...a better effort should have been made.