Customer Reviews

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Prima Essential Guide

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The guide is nice and compact with excellent descriptions of the weapons and the different kits you can unlock and what you can do with them. It offers advice on types of load outs and has a pretty good walk through for the campaign, but the only gripe i have about it, is that the images and maps are small and hard to see especially for multiplayer map lay outs and campaign maps for the hidden weapons. I'd recommend only if you're in serious need of a guide otherwise wait until its cheaper though 10.xx is pretty good. They should have made it like the regular guide. I'd guess the writer did not have too much to say about the game to make the guide into a regular format. If the maps had been full size and detailed i would recommend it to anyone (as it would be useful for multiplayer use).

Bottom line- get it if you really want a guide to accompany the game. don't buy it if you're looking for detailed maps.

Small compact size, by far the smallest strategy guide I've came across, though this is not a bad thing. Deeply describes all weapons pro's and con's which is the main reason I purchased it. Gives you collectable weapon locations and campaign mission tips. But if your looking for more, you might want to rethink. Cool if you like the game and just want to have it though..

Nice booklet, easy to turn the pages and sit in your lap. Great for finding the com stations throughout the singleplayer campaign.

Where this guide excels is in the campaign and weapons sections. It goes into great detail on what to do and when to do it

Where this guide starts to slide is mainly the online sections. The online maps they show are good, but not completely useful in my view. Also, when they're describing the G3, they talk about how you can equip it with a 4x Scope and Magnum Ammo. You cannot, at least on the PS3 version.

Overall, a decent guide, but not a buy. You can get almost all of this information on the internet if you know where to look. I'll help you out:

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you dont get much out of it that you dont allready know and not up to date with new maps and updates of game.

Very cool to look at and read. It is helpful for the single player campaign by giving you the locations of all the M-COM Stations and collectible weapons. For the multiplayer game, it is not that helpful. You can definitely do without it. It's great if you are into collecting strategy guides. For me, it is a cool collectible item.

The spiral is nice and it is a good size but it just doesn't contain much useful information. I didn't get a manual with my BFBC2 download so I thought this would supplement in knowing the default keyboard maps without having to keep looking. It didn't.

I enjoyed this guide and felt that it was a good guide at a good price.

This is a must have if your a fan of the battlefield series . Very detailed and it is 240 pages long .