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Summary: This book is useless.
Review: Sorry to rain on your parade, but this book is useless. The game is one of the greatest ever. But, there is little in this book (and less) than is in the manual Blizzard gives you, EXCEPT solutions to the campaigns. And if you follow the solutions, you are missing 99 percent of the fun. Prima usually does a real good job writing hint books that tell you how to play the game, but this book gives you nothing on general strategy, or explanation of the game itself. This book doesn't even have anything to say on the structures - the order to build them, etc. I had little trouble completing the campaigns before this book came out, and I am not the greatest player of games. So, if you absolutely must have solutions to the maps, get the book. If you want to have any fun with the game, don't. (And, I might add, the solutions I used were all different than what was in the book. There is no one solution.) Prima, you could have done better.
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Summary: The Perfect Guide
Review: Starcraft is a great game, but there were certain units that I didn't use. The straegy guide helped me to use those certain units better so I win easier. If you need help with Starcraft, get this book.
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Summary: A horrid guide to balance out a great game
Review: Strangely enough the people at Prima managed to skew the guide to one of the best games of all time by forgetting the fact that most of the players have already read the manual (and those who have not have not done so either because they don't care for hints or the game was rented). In fact, the guide has even less information than the manual - whereas the manual lists the strengths and weaknesses of the units as well as the buildings. The guide had one paragraph to say about the human's entire architectural menagerie. This would have been completely acceptable had the book attempted to reveal the web of srtategy possible with StarCraft ( defensive unit combinations, strategic turret positioning, formations, expansion rates, among others). The guide remains mysteriously silent on all these topics, instead repeating the information routinely found in the manual, adding - drumroll, please! - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I have nothing to say but: if you have the manual, you already know what this book says. Think rather than buy.
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Summary: Don't buy it
Review: Thank God I didn't have to pay for it, because it came with the BattleChest.
Most of the book is dedicated to give solutions to the single player missions, as if the game was a tetris-like puzzle.
And the rest is worse. The strategies are good for a novice, but anyone who has played a little can find huge flaws in it. Besides, it has some typos... like when it says Zerg Scourges are good against Terran Carriers...
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Summary: So-So Game information
Review: The book came with the Battle chest version of the game. Depending on your purpose for reading this book it might not meet your needs. 1) It provides basic - from the manual information about the different units. Some useful information is telling you which units destroy which other units. 2) It tells you how to win each of the missions in the game. If you want to know before playing the mission how to beat it, why play? They also point this out in the book. Play the mission, then if you get stuck consult the book. Well, that's all there is to the book. I agree with one of the other reviews, which said if they wanted to write a good book, they should have evolved strategies of attack and defense such as "Build 12 marines, 12 Goliaths, 12 vultures, place each of the twelve types onto a number key. Now when you need a certain "type" of defense press the number key and tell it to attack the offending unit." Another good one is to keep building units while your base is under attack (obvious, but there are many kids playing this game with no war strategy experience). Strategy is necessary for these 12 yr olds to win these games. Finally, this is only a newbie book. Not for seasoned players of war games.
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Summary: So-So Game information
Review: The book came with the Battle chest version of the game. Depending on your purpose for reading this book it might not meet your needs. 1) It provides basic - from the manual information about the different units. Some useful information is telling you which units destroy which other units. 2) It tells you how to win each of the missions in the game. If you want to know before playing the mission how to beat it, why play? They also point this out in the book. Play the mission, then if you get stuck consult the book. Well, that's all there is to the book. I agree with one of the other reviews, which said if they wanted to write a good book, they should have evolved strategies of attack and defense such as "Build 12 marines, 12 Goliaths, 12 vultures, place each of the twelve types onto a number key. Now when you need a certain "type" of defense press the number key and tell it to attack the offending unit." Another good one is to keep building units while your base is under attack (obvious, but there are many kids playing this game with no war strategy experience). Strategy is necessary for these 12 yr olds to win these games. Finally, this is only a newbie book. Not for seasoned players of war games.
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Summary: it was a very good book
Review: the book realy gave a good detailed description of the maps and campains. I would suggest this book to any starcraft player
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Summary: This book is one of the worsts I've ever read before
Review: The book says everything about single player games, but how come a great stragety game like this can be restricted to just the 30 single player missions that you can play in the campaign mode? No way! The book does not teach any useful strategy for general games against the computer or, much better, against human players. The real fun of this game is to play against human people, and the book will tell you only nonsense things about this. I really regret I paid for such a crappy book like this.
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Summary: To Aldarris
Review: The book says on p17 "The Vulture is a hovercycle that's fast, powerful, and very effective when quick response time is critical." It also says "The Vulture uses Fragmentation Grenades as its primary weapon and, although they pack a decent punch, their effectiveness is dimished against heavily armored enemies". You missed that part!
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Summary: The strategy guide for newbies, by newbies
Review: These people know about as much about starcraft as I know about making nuclear missiles (nothing, by the way). This book talks about the reaver, a protoss unit, and never mentions its most useful strategy, the reaver drop(also its most used strategy). This book also tells very little about strategy, online or otherwise, and just tells you things you can read in the instructions. Don't waste your money on this book. If you feel you must get rid of some money, throw it in a paper bag and burn it (a better investment than this book)
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