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Anarchy Online: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets

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Well, now that FunCom has gotten the bugs out of AO and has been developing it (patch 14.2 is going live today), I take back everything bad I ever said about it. Anarchy Online is superb and has at last begun living up to the hype and the high expectations I had of it from the beginning.

As for this book, it was pretty out of date when it was published and it has in no way kept up with the massive changes and additions to the game itself. However, despite that and that it is generally a little weak overall, the book is absolutely indispensible as a reference guide to everything from maps, to nanos, to clusters, to weapons and monsters. Yes, even much of that data is out-of-date now, but there is still rarely a session where I don't refer to the book at least once. If they published the book again with more current information, I'd definitely buy it.

I'll keep this short and sweet. This book is not much more than an extended version of the game manual. However, that may not be a bad thing depending on how you look at it. Personally, I think the extra information and zone maps are worth the money.

This book works as a great reference book, bottom line. There is only the very basis of any kind of stratgy in this book and if there are any secrets, then finding them is the biggest one and is clearly ommited from this publication. More information on strategy (and yes even secrets) can be gleaned from the MANY online fansites. This being said, I will restate that the book does contain many great charts and works well as a reference book only.

This guide is missing some essential details that are needed for higher level characters. It only has maps of about 3 cities (it doesn't have maps for Rome, one of the largest, most populated city in the game) and it doesn't have maps of the higher level zones either.

The list of nano programs that this guide has does not include details about the higher level programs.

Overall, this guide would be strictly for a newbie, if you are passed level 20, this guide would be a waste of [money]

As the game goes this is an Awesome strategy game. If you want to get the full effect of AO you definetly need to buy this book. I recommend this to all....

Actually, that is beside the point. The launch of AO was horrid (second only to ww2online), and the Devs have been "balancing/nerfing/tweaking" so many things that the mechanics are almost unrecognizable at this point. For example, the Nanotech class description described them as "the master of Nanos" and "able to Solo, Group, and PvP effectively."

People who actually play this class (which turns out to be a complete gimp after level 40 of 200), have taken to fascetiously quoting the "official guide" in their signatures when posting on the funcom forums complaining about broken game mechanics.

The entire game is a joke and after building a character up to the middle-game I cancelled my subscription before they could bill my credit card. If you want accurate info about how bad it is (Funcom has started censoring their official forums before the European launch because of "too much negativity".)....

You will get more information about this very bad game from online sources. Dont waste your time or money.