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Summary: Should Be on the Sales Table. Not Worth the price.
Review: The book is of little help and is frought with inaccuracys. For $5.00 it would be an OK book but for $16 it does not help you with playing the Great Game of Baldur's Gate. Good game! Bad book.
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Summary: Dont bother
Review: This is the worst strategy guide I have ever seen. I cant believe I wasted my money on it.There are no detailed maps, no weapons, armor, or monster lists. The info on magic spells was simply copied from the game manual. There is nothing helpful about this book that you couldnt get by posting messages on the baldurs gate newsgroup or message board. Dont waste your time or your cash.
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Summary: mama
Review: mama say good game
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Summary: Last word I would use in title of this book is "Strategy"
Review: Truly an under-edited mindless piece of drivel. The first half of the book is devoted to a "journal" type walkthrough, with the following sections being more of the same without actually once offering a sound strategy for playing the game. Monster evaluations, unique item/weapons evaluations or hints, and party formation suggestions are all missing from this book. Not once does it say anything remotely helpful in playing the game (ie, beginning parties should place strong/armored players in front, weak/unarmored players in back, and all should have ranged weapons with a lot of ammunition...). The number of errors in this book were simply appalling. Especially upsetting were the number of caption and map errors. I wonder who is ultimately responsible for this guide being as poor as it is (since it is an "Official" publication, does this mean the game publishers themselves should be held accountable?). I don't believe in the least in returning books (I treat them like underwear, once you try them on, they ARE YOURS FOREVER), but I really do wish I had a way to be reimbursed for my purchasing of this piece of garbage. The game itself is extraordinary, and should be purchased post-haste, just don't fall for the strategy guide. It isn't even worth glancing at in the bookstore.
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Summary: Golly, If your a total idiot and lost the manual buy this...
Review: Well for starters...Its not so hot. I took it back after two days of wasting my time trying to figure out what half it ment. I was looking for some of the cool items and a walkthrough but nada. It has most of the manual rewriten and nothing on whats great for each char... If you really must have everything to a game well your gonna be sorry you bout this piece of cr*p
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Summary: Not Much Here
Review: First, contrary to the description of the book, there are no descriptions of items, monsters, etc., to be found. Instead, there are a number of walkthroughs. The first is a very lame first person account of going through the game, which has no detail. The remainder are lists of quests and little more. Ultimately, they contain only incomplete quest information, and they don't much enhance the experience. There are also no detailed area maps (a shortcoming common to many Brady guides lately) so you're on your own trying to navigate to specific encounters or buildings. The guide to creating a character does little more than repeat what the manual tells you, with absolutely no specifics on how any particular decision will affect the long term development of your character. All in all, there's very little to help you through Baldur's Gate.
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Summary: The Book is ok but it has mistakes and is incomplete.
Review: I played the game thru 2 times and found the book to have some very bad and missleading mistakes, the map of the world has travel lines to and from places (cloakwood forest) that are wrong. The pictures associated with some of the discriptions are the wrong pictures, and many of the people and places you can go or meet in the game are not mentioned at all. Where to find items, no. If you follow the story guild your game will not even go quite the same way. I recommed using the book as just a general guide and not expect it to be correct in many areas. Thank-you Wizardaire
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Summary: One of the worst hint books I have used.
Review: A hint book is to provide useful information. This book uses a "diary" format with vague references to things to do and get. Maps are virtually non-existent. There are no lists of weapons, armor or special items. Worthless.
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: This book is probably the least useful strategy guide I've seen. At least a quarter of it is basically reprinted/rewritten from the manual, and another half is a "first person in character" account of a path through the game. Nowhere are the useful maps found in most strategy guides, descriptions of creatures, or good suggestions on strategy. The encounters section uses a location reference system which isn't explained in any obvious manner (I still haven't found it), and the text is laid out as if they had to fill a certain amount of space and needed to bulk up the book's slim content. Avoid this one at all costs.
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Summary: All the info you need in no particular order !!!
Review: This book displays complete lack of thought on the writers part. It has no index to help find key plot and character words. It offers no real tips on how to get ahead of the game or create an awesome character. It rarely gives the exact location of items and characters and sometimes gives the incorrect one. Buy it if you must, but buy a set of highlighters with it to help parse through the raw data.
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