Halo 2 : Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Summary: Halo 2 Rocks!
Review: I got Halo 2 a few weeks ago and this is my favorite game of the year. I have to admit that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the PlayStation 2 is a very good game but I am a fan of Xbox more.

There is good weaponary in this game. They include as follows:

M6C Pistol (dual wield), BR55 Rifle, M7/Caseless Sub Machine Gun (SMG) (dual wield), S2 AM Sniper Rifle,M19 SSM Rocket Launcher, M90 Shotgun, M9 HE-DP Fragmentation Grenade, M41 LAAG (vehicle mounted), M68 Gauss Cannon (vehicle mounted), Plasma Pistol (dual wield), Plasma Rifle (dual wield), Needler (dual wield), Convenant Carbine, Partile Beam Rifle, Brute Shot, Convenant Energy Sword, Fuel Rod Gun, Plasma Grenade.


UNSC Ground Transport:
M12 Warthog LRV, M12G1 Warthog LAAV, M808B Scorpion MBT

Intel On Convenant Vehicles:
Ghost, Banshee, Wraith, Spectre, Shadow

Breakdown Of Known Convenant Units:
Grunts, Jackals, Hunters, Elites, Brutes, Drones, Prophets

Levels:
Cario Station, Home Field Advantage, Priority Shift, Authorized Personnel Only, Return to Sender, Outskirts, They'll Regret That Too, A Day At The Beach, Speed Zone Ahead, Metropolis, Ladies Like Armor-Plating,This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us, Field Expedient, The Arbiter, Oracle, Jaggernaut, Hey, Watch This!, Dead or Alive... Actually, Just Dead, Delta Halo, Helljumpers, You Break It, You Buy It, Off the Rock, Through the Bush, Nothing But Jackal, Regret, Testament, One-Way Ticket, Sorry, Were You in the Middle of Something?, Sacred Icon
Uncomfortable Silence, Buyer's Remorse, 100,000 Year's War, Quarantine Zone, Objects in Mirror are Larger Than They Appear, Healthy Competition, Shooting Gallery, That Old, Familiar Feeling, The Great Journey, Your Ass, My Size-24 Hoof, Backseat Driver, Delusions and Grandeur!

Enjoy Halo 2!
Wait for Halo 3!

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Summary: no so much...
Review: I really dont use guides that often. My friend purchased this guide for me and it is really awful. Bad layout and small fonts fill this cheating device. POint less screen shots show awesome graphic but, you could play them game and see awesome graphics. if you buy this cheat guide you cheat your self. the idea is not to finish as fast as you can its to have and tons of fun. I used the wrong gun a enemy several times and each time i was dis membered. But as my limbs where ripped from my body on my computer animated me the real me was laughing my head. Dont get this. If you really want to cheat use the web you get it cheaper and theres not shipping involved

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Summary: Live and let live!!!
Review: The two negative reviewers seem to have forgotten that there is no law about using cheats or guides when gaming - each to his own. Some people will slave away at a game for weeks refusing to get help, others rush through a game in a few hours by following a walkthrough to the letter. NEITHER WAY IS WRONG. It's no-one else's business how you choose to play your games. Personally, I like to try to make it through on my own first, but if I get really stuck I'd rather have the answer to hand than spend ages getting nowhere. And despite all the advantages of the internet, some of us still take pleasure in a well-produced book.

Piggyback are a small company who have been producing guides for a number of top games (including the Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid series) in Europe for a few years now. Their guides are always beautifully produced, vastly superior to either Prima or Brady's efforts in terms of art design, and packed with clear information - and this Halo 2 guide is no exception. I'm really pleased to see their work is now available to USA gamers as well. Take it from me; if you want help with Halo 2, this is the guide to have

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Summary: great guide
Review: this guide tells you all the basics. also, get the game with this guide. this contains all you need to know to play HALO 2

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Summary: Helped Me... Just not alot
Review: This guide was okay. Plain and simple. If you are stuck and don't know where to go don't use this book. One of the levels of Halo 2 the directions were so confusing I got lost for three hours, not knowing where to go (I know that your thinking "How can you get lost in a video game?"). However I would recommand this to you if you are one of those gamers with a good sense of direction. This would serve to you as a constant reminder of what you are going to do, not where. The multiplayer section is pretty cool but I don't really like the maps at the beginning of the level. They are incredibly confusing. My advice: Pick the guide up if you can't find a guide online. This guide although confusing has some helpful tips.

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Summary: INDESPENSIBLE GUIDE FOR HALO 2
Review: Well on just the first day of it's release Halo 2 made over 100 Million dollars...a figure any Hollywood movie studio would be envious of. So now you've bought it and you say your stuck?

Enter the Halo 2 offical guide by the premiere company for game guides, Prima. EVERYTHING you could ever want to possibly know about the game is jam-packed into this 224 page book.

You'll get level maps and guides, step-by-step walkthroughs of each level, power-up locations and more. The book details all of the weapons, vehicles, and enemies with their strength and weaknesses. EVerythig you need to beat this great game.

But it doesn't stop there. Since Halo 2 is online and multi-player the guide charges into full gear. Detailing all of the multi-player maps, game types, power-up locations, secret locations, and custom game set-up.

The book features hundreds of detailed screenshots as well.

The bible of Halo 2!

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Summary: Good Walkthrough, not a strategy guide
Review: While I rarely condone the use of strategy guides or walkthroughs for a game simply on the basis of the plot being ruined, this guide however differentiates itself from the masses of other guides out there. It does not give away the plot of the game, and simply leads you along through it while not giving away the story line. However this guide is simply nothing more then a walkthrough it offers great tactical data about ur enemies, weapons, and vehicles during the first few pages but nothing strategical during the actual walkthrough just a simply go here, there are gonna be enemies here kill them, and then do this, not a very strategical approach about how to take them out more easily or where the best vantage point to lay fire down at if you ask me. This guide does offer great maps and overviews of the single player levels as well as the multiplayer levels. Simply enough only buy this book if u are having a tough time figuring out where to go throughout the maps, or want some different routes that go through levels that you couldn't figure out on your own (which is easy by the way) all and all just buy it for multiplayer map overview if you must. In conclusion this is just a guide with no strategy or tactics offered hardly at all, so only buy it if you must.

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Summary: or you could look online...
Review: While these paper guides do have very high production values, with great art direction and some well-rendered stills or original concept art supplied directly by the game's producer - and they might hold some sentimental value as a collector's item to the ultimate fan, they are worthless as an informational source in an age of internet. There are several fan sites already offering walkthroughs of the basic campaign, and I expect that sometime within the next three months many of them will even offer fairly detailed maps, in-game images, and recommended tactics. If you need help just to beat the single-player campaign, I suggest you begin your search online before buying this book.

That said, if you are too lazy to explore the multiplayer maps offline and would like to get a quick edge up on your opponents or a little hard recon to prepare the ultimate novice... then maybe they aren't such a bad buy. Good intel isn't cheating - it's just being a well-prepared soldier. The multiplayer maps contained within have all vehicle, territory, weapon, and powerup locations mapped out, and will give you advice on how to move from the one level to another on many of the more complex maps. This kind of information can be critical to those who have just begun playing and do not wish to fall behind...

Of course, it is also rumored that Bungie Software will continue to make new multiplayer maps available for download after the publishing date of this book, and may elect to discontinue older, less popular maps - so let the buyer be warned.