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Summary: Good if you play for the storyline.
Review: This is by no means a cheat guide, if that's what you want I suggest you look elsewhere. This book is geared mainly toward the few people who play this game for the ROLEPLAYING aspect, which 99% of players seem to have overlooked and play this game as if it was another Quake or Unreal...Anyway, this book gives lots of interesting information on the history of Norrath, zone info, NPC info, and beautiful maps. The maps are not like the grid-based, satellite view maps with mob locations and spawn times like you would find on most cheat websites. If you prefer to roleplay and not just run from one zone to another killing certain mobs just to get your current quest item, then this book is for you. If all you want out of the game is to max out your level and get your epic in the shortest time possible, you're better off visiting a cheat site. Or better yet, go play a Final Fantasy and save money and bandwidth.
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Summary: Dont waste the money...
Review: The GAME is great. This book is just shy of useless. The maps are fairly accurate, but the World Maps lack clairity. The Atlas lacks detail in description, art, and map detail. ....
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Summary: Not worth [the money]
Review: A waste of money. Good if you're a collector I guess but not useful if you want maps. These are just small pictures of maps. They're not even useful except for very general directions....
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Summary: Better than most think
Review: I perchased the Everquest Atlas knowing what was said about it. And some of it is true. The level range for zones is somewhat squed and inacurate. I have not seen anywhere that connecting zones are inacurate, but I haven't tested the example other's have given. Another complaint is that the maps were poor in detail and lacking consistancy with which direction North is. For the most part north is somewhere at the top of the page. It might be at a slight angle, but still mostly straight. As far as lacking detail, if you want to know where who will drop, then this is the wrong book for you. These maps were done as if you really did live in Norath and were drawing them by hand, paying keen attention to noticable landmarks. That is that. Also, the description and history of each zone was useful, but the notable NPCs were pretty much for lvl 60+ who are looking for more things to do now that they can kill most anything.
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Summary: A great resource
Review: True the maps aren't that useful but that's not the reason this book was created. This book gives deep insites into the back stories of all the zones in the game as well as notable NPC's in each zone. Before I bought this book EQ was just a bunch of different zones with stuff to kill. Now I understand the MUCH MUCH bigger picture that verant wrote into this game. All in all I think the atlas has enhanced my EQ experience, and besides it gives me something to look at while the servers are down.
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Summary: Only if your a collector
Review: The maps laid out in the atlas are of little real use, other than giving you a very base idea of what the zone looks like. Each map is an artists veiw of how the area looks to him and then drawn in a scale that fits the atlas. Most harly usuable for any real gameplay. The information in the book may be of some use to people that are new to the game or not familure with some of the sites on the web that give the same info or in many cases more info. I would recomend this item for collectors only.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: Well, I guess Sony just couldn't stand the online entrepreneurs producing maps of this great game so they decided to publish a paper version and sell it. Well, you would think that the company that owns the game would know the content of the game, but they evidently don't. If you are a novice gamer, please do not buy this book as a guide to the world of EQ. The maps are grossly incorrect in respect to locations of landmarks, camps, town, druid rings, you name it. The zone levels listed are most incorrect and the "dangers within" background stories are erroneous. Ever since Sony shoved Verant Interactive out of the picture, there has a been a succession of poorly executed attempts to milk the EQ cash cow. This atlas is one of the worst. Please don't make the mistake I made when I preordered this terrible boot and waste of money.
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Summary: Please save your money...
Review: If you're an Everquest enthusiast, you've probably already bought it. An enthusiast would find the background stories to each area very interesting. This is why the guide fails so miserably. You get a roughly drawn map with only 3-7 vaguely located places on each map, inaccurate monster levels for each map, and one to three full pages of background for each location. The histories will do nothing to enhance your gameplay. Any useful information is encoded into cryptic passages that start with "There are rumors..." I wish for my sake it had been better and I hope for your sake you now know better.
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Summary: Only thing Good about this is the humor
Review: The only thing good about this is the humours errors. They mis level almost every map. the maps are so useless it's comic. we've been using the web and our own scrachpads of notes to keep track of things for years, and done a better job. this book is a horrible joke. Symphonic
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Summary: This "atlas" will get you KILLED in EQ
Review: I bought this for my wife for Christmas as we're both avid EQ players.... While the book does have some interesting reading material, as another reviewer has stated, this is certainly not why I bought it, and the writing is definitely not worth the price you pay. Here are some of the major problems with these maps: 1) Map and adjacent zone information is simply wrong. Example: I believe the map says that "The Grey" is adjacent to "Marus Seru", when it is not - "Mons Letalis" is between The Grey and Marus Seru. 2) The maps are not at all detailed. If you have used the [online] maps you probably expect a certain level of detail (where certain mobs live, etc) and little of that detail is in these maps. Additionally, the maps are TINY, and they're shown at a strange angle, which makes them ever less useful. Again, [online] maps are at a directly overhead view and are decently sized. 3) Information about zones is incorrect. Each zone has page or two of info and background, including the range of mob levels. I can't remember the exact zone, but there was one listed in this book as level 10-25 that has 55+ monsters in it. ... I wish I had purchased it from [Amazon.com] rather than a mall so I wouldn't have to drive all over the world to return it, because I don't have the patience for that. So now we're stuck with a book with mediocre writing and useless maps. Way to go, Sony....
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