Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Watch out, this may cost you serious frustration...
Review: A week after Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness came out, i bought my PS2. Along with the console and the game i bought Prima's *official* Strategy Guide. Upon starting to play, the first few levels are simple so there really isn't a use for the book until a level like Louivre Storm Drains and some of the levels following it. The guide helped me easily through some tough levels, but others like Louivre Galleries, i had serious problems. In the galleries, the guide instructed me to shimmy over four trip wires (2 of which were moving), i later came to find out this was IMPOSSIBLE. You instead must do a running jump over the wires from one of the display cases. Another problem surfaced in the Hall Of Seasons level. In that level i spent an hour trying to figure out why the door in the basement wouldn't open, i came to find out that you had to place 4 crystals by the entrance door (this wasn't mentioned in the guide). The guide caused me hours of frustration, making gameplay very uncomfortable. However, i'm giving this "official" guide 2 stars because it helped me through some levels in the game. The reason, i later found out, for these glitches in the book, were because Prima made this guide for the Sep. 02 release of AoD, they never updated it after the delays. This guide, in my opinion, isn't worth the almost twenty bucks i paid for it, the only thing i got out of this guide that was enjoyable was the full poster inside.

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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: I'm on the 26th level, and this book got me through the last 25 levels. I'm so happy that Prima came out with this book. It tells where all the items you need are, it tells where all the secrets are, etc. It even gives detail on what you're supposed to do on both Lara and Kurtis's missions. It was very helpful to me, so it should be helpful to you!!!

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Summary: definitve guide
Review: if youre having problems finishing toon raider anger of darkness then this is the guide for you lovely stage pictures even a picture of laura lots of writing and good clear diagrams this has a bigger walkthru than those at gamefaqs.com and even has most of the complete walkthru so you wont be needing many other guides overall a brilliant book and worth getting if you have the gameand experiencing problems completing it due to bugs glitches or difficulty a thorough explanations of some things

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Summary: Informative? Yes. Helpful? No!
Review: The Prima guides for all of the previous Tomb Raider games have been spot on and extremely helpful for those times you when your in a tight spot and don't know how to get out of it. The guide for AOD however is plain misleading. I chucked mine aside and decided to wing it on my own. Apparently the guide was written way before the game was finished, so some things just don't add up, somethings don't even appear in the game and some things are completely missing. I hate to say this but don't waste your money. If you're really stuck, you're much better off hitting the various tomb raider BB's on the web. Much more helpful!

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Summary: Helpful sometimes, other times not so much
Review: This guide is good most of the time but there are parts of it that are totally wrong. Lots of time it'll tell you to kill the guard and collect his gun. Only there is no gun there. This is either a problem with the game or with the book. There are so many bugs with the game it is hard to tell. Anyway, both the game and the book are terrible. Eidos should be embarrassed.

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Summary: Very Straight Forward
Review: This is a great guidbook, but not if you want to backtrack. It also uses the words 'the ledge' a lot, and 'the ladder,' so you can never be quite sure WHICH ledge or WHICH ladder.

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Summary: Informative? Yes. Helpful? No!
Review: Tombraider is an awesome game, i would highly recommend this book. There are several puzzles, secrets etc..that without this book you would not be able to find.

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Summary: Good investment
Review: Tombraider is an awesome game, i would highly recommend this book. There are several puzzles, secrets etc..that without this book you would not be able to find.

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Summary: Helpful...
Review: Very, veyr helpful. Without this, I would never have finished TRGBC... and what a cool ending! Well dones all around. :)

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Summary: Helpful...
Review: Very, veyr helpful. Without this, I would never have finished TRGBC... and what a cool ending! Well dones all around. :)