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Summary: Worthless, not helpful, waste of money.
Review: This strategy guide is a waste of money. It's worthless. Its not really a strategy guide, it's a story about "Diana Nightkill" as she goes through the storyline of Baldur's Gate. You could get 10x the information free on a internet site. Just go to a search engine and type in Baldur's Gate Walkthrough. They barely explain the quest in this, LET ALONE, the side quests. Take my word for it. This is a waste of money.
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Summary: Baldur's Gate : Official Strategy Guide review
Review: I found this book hard to use, due to its journal form. It was confusing because of the use of the words I, me, and mine, as it was told from a first-person view. The best part of the book is the maps and the scripting of the quests. The first three chapters of this Guide are spent reviewing what the game manual covered. It did not tell any answers to the puzzles and left you hanging at places. Frankly, I was disappointed with this book and think you'd be better off figuring it out on your own.
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Review: As soon as I bought this book I regretted it because I found a free website that is MUCH better. The book gives a few hints here and there and helps out on certain stuff.
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Summary: This guide is a waste of money!
Review: ...The hints and info it does offer up are of no great value.You could learn the same things by simply saving the game and tryingthe different conversation paths in each NPC encounter. I have playedthis game once without the guide and once with, and am disappointedwith the guide in general and feel like a I wasted $18. The infogiven is incomplete, not detailed, and lends little value. I will notbuy a guide by either of these authors again. The authors joke aroundabout this being a guide and not a tell all manual. I don't knowabout you, but I buy a guide to do just that. I want to find all themagical items and know how to follow quests. Some may contend thatthis takes some of the fun out of the game. If they feel that way,then don't buy a guide in the first place.
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Summary: Tripe
Review: This was without a doubt the worst strategy guide I have ever had the displeasure of laying eyes on. Not only is it poorly written, and organized, but it doesn't elaborate on any of the items, quests or sub-quests mentioned in it. The best they offer on any sub-quest is a two to three sentance blurb. Curious about a magical item? Continue to be, for this book won't help you out. If anyone wants to write a strategy guide they should look to Prima's Diablo (the original Diablo) guide. That was without a doubt, the best guide I have seen out there.
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Summary: Baldur's Gate, Official Strategy Guide
Review: This strategy guide was wonderful! It had everything I needed to know and several other fun side-quests. If you're going to get Baldur's Gate get this too. I also learned how to get through tough situations instead of just getting killed. SO, GET THIS GUIDE!
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Summary: Strategy i think not
Review: I wanted to get this book to teach me about all of the sub quest's and where all of the magical items are. This book failed to do either. I have learned a lot more for free on the internet. Use the internet my friend use the internet!
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Summary: An OK guide
Review: This guide is a good one considering how hard making a strategy guide is for this kind of game. It has a very complete walkthrough. It is kind of tiring to flip back and forth in the book though. If you want a guide to help you through the tough parts of the game, get this.
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Summary: Just Awful
Review: Quite frankly the only truly useful thing in this book is one page where is shows the area numbers for all the maps. So I threw it in the recycle bin this morning. It doesn't show hit points of enemies or any of the statistical figures or descriptions of where to find things you regularly expect from such guides. The walkthrough is completely lame and what info there is, is diffcult to find. I recommend you head to gamespot.com to check out Dessloch's guide to BG. It's about 1/3 the price and has absolutely everthing you could want. Also useful is strategy info on websites linked from the BG page. Don't waste your money on this guide.
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Summary: Excellent Guide, Wish it told all the info for the quests
Review: This is a truly excelent strategy guide. Many of the features it has should be included in all strategy guides. Whether your a newbie to Baldurs Gate or an experienced player this book has something to offer. One feature that I truly thought was great was how they went through a walkthrough of the game (this does not have all the quests, so reading it wont ruin the game for you) with a sample character Diana Nightflame. Instead of the standard strategy guide that just has a dull section that tells you every secret, quest, and cheat it actually went through the game with a chracter giving you not only the info for hardcore experienced players but also a feel of the game for newbies. Another good feature is the ideal stat for class section in the back. What this does is give you a basic idea of what stats and skills you want for each class (fighter,mage,thief...). Although it is a truly great guide it does have one large drawback. Although it does go through all the quests I personnaly don't think it goes through in enough detail. The reason being I assume is so that you actually have some of the mystery to solve yourself. The problem is though if you are already looking in this section chances are you want to know exactly how to do each quest not just a small paragraph to just guide you along the right path. If what you want is just to be guided along go back to the sample character walkthrough and read that. Other than this minor drawback though this strategy guide is excellent and a must have for any Bgate player. Hope this helped:)
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