Tactics Ogre : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Secrets of the Games Series.)

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Summary: A waste of money
Review: The guide did not cover all of the plots, including Hell's Gate. I received better information from the FAQs on the internet. It was very frustrating to use.

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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY
Review: The Tactics Ogre strategy guide from prima is a complete waste of money. It isn't very descriptive and doesn't include some of the important sidequests. DON'T BUY IT !

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Summary: Worst Strategy Guide Ever
Review: This guide is the worst excuse for a strategy guide ever. It starts out by giving you two pages of gameplay basics, which are so basic the average gamer could figure them out within about 3 seconds of actually playing the game. It then moves on to classes, it has two and a half pages worth of classes each class getting between two to six sentences giving the barest of information about what the class actually does. It doesn't go into any great detail about what the classes special talents are it just says things like the muse can handle a spear. Not even mentioning the fact that she can go through water or use spells just that she can use a spear. By now you may be thinking "I don't remember a muse". Well thats another thing, not only do you only get a few sentences, many times the names are wrong, muse? mage the female wizard? and what is an Evil One? The guide doesn't bother to include the pre-requisets of each classes, and also misses several of the more secret ones, no white knights, no gorgons, no cyclops. The only other thing this guide has except for the walkthrough is one page which tries to stuff every item in the game, obviously the list is unhelpful because it has no stats on it. The walkthrough itself is a huge disappointment not only does miss basically every side quest, (including the massive Hell's Gate) it also misses at least a dozen secret characters and at times will actually tell you to do stuff that will cut you off from getting a secret character in the future. It also seems that the author didn't try all the dialog options, because at times he tells you to pick choices I personally wouldn't choose. The strategies themselves are ok I guess, but nothing a third grader with a little experience couldn't do by himself. Overall this strategy guide is absolutely worthless, and most gamers would be better off without it. There are some good online guides floating around the internet if you need them though.