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Summary: As much or as little info as you want
Review: The Baldur's Gate: Official Strategy Guide is good to have, it tells you about the main charatcers in the game that you will incounter. It also tells you about some of the places that you will have to go to and where they are located, but if you don't want to know all of this, you might want to still get it. The strategy guide does give alot away(it would be better if it had a table of contents)that one might want to figure out on his own, but it is always good to have.
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Summary: This Book Rocks!!!
Review: This book is cool!it notifies you of some of the perils in the forgotten realms and lets you know what you're up against.I thank you and Sally(the character I made)thanks you and she want to give some advice to Diana."The best way to kill ankhegs is to hit and run with a range weapon quickly so you won't take an acidbath.If you have poison arrows,they are a big help."Keep up the good work,William.Bye George Alexander III
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Summary: whingers!
Review: this book does everything its supposed to.. its a "GUIDE".. People are after a walk thru coz they are not smart nuff to work out this game. Its not space invaders, you have to think to work out this game.
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Summary: A total waste of time and money.
Review: No index. No table of contents worth anything. If you want to read the entire book cover to cover will you learn everything you don't want to know. If you want help on just one part of one quest then you are just out of luck. The internet is much better.
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Summary: A Terrible Product from a Usually Reliable Publisher
Review: Pathetic. Awful. A Waste of Money. That pretty much covers my feelings about this guide. The amount of space given over to, essentially, a verbatim reprint of the game manual was ridiculous. What new information did make it into the book was of little value; save your $20 and check the web for much better hint sites.
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Summary: Piece of crud
Review: I am sorely disappointed by this "guide". This guide is utterly worthless. You can find stuff infinite times better than this crud on the internet, and you dont need to pay the retail of 19.99 for it. The guide is full of dumb comments and strategy, and misses most of the subquests. It does not give in detail about anything (ex. the list of potions, which the guide describes as "too numerous to mention") which I think is B.S. the authors obviously just wanted to get this guide out. Bottem line, save your money and time. Check out the internet websites.
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Summary: Poor excuse for a strategy guide
Review: For a game as large and complex as Baldur's Gate you would expect a large and detailed strategy guide. This is not it. It is mediocre at best. You can find better stuff on the web...and that stuff is free!
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Summary: my review on Baldurs gate Official Strategy Guide
Review: this is my review on baldur's gate i have brought this book form a major computer store i got stuck on area this book reads like a novel then a hint book there is no location of items the maps where very hard to look at espically (excuse spelling) there was a lot of wasted space it could do without the know how of setting up you charater you can do that from the users manual the spell list and the weapons list came in handy my way to find objects is by cordinates and where they are on the maps it really needs to have full colored maps of each sector and where the items are located
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Summary: not in-depth
Review: this is the best kind of stratagy guide available. it has everything you need to complete the game without giving everything away. In the back of it, it has a bestiary and a armory but it doesn't give a full explanation, like if a item is cursed. altogether it is my favorite BG strategy guide
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Summary: incomplete, scattered and of very little use
Review: the book while touching on most things in the game does not go into the nuts and bolts of the game. While it tells you in coordinate systems where areas are it does not tell you how to reach these coordinates. It is way to general in scope.
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