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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor Guide, June 29, 2008
This review is from: Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
This book was a disappointment and is very incomplete.
Multiplayer problems:
As stated earlier, no top views of the maps and a very limited look into the multiplayer area. Most of the info is from the videos included in the "Gold Edition" of the game.
Stats:
The weapon descriptions are the general rant with little info in how they perform in the game. The numbers do not include the handling stats and they do not have a table for easy comparison to help you choose what weapon is best. The specialist weapons have little info on how to use them correctly, especially the Snipers goggles witch I am still having problems with.
Single player:
The majority of this book is centered on the single player campaign. This is set up with short paragraphs scattered on a page to follow along the way the writers played the game. This largest disappointment with this is if you try to read and go you will miss some vital info. One example is I started a tough battle and then read I should have picked up the mortar designator two objectives previously which was not mentioned in the explanation that was two pages previously.
This guide is similar to the layout of the Kameo guide. Which also blew? The problem with Prima guides is it seems to be a crap shoot. Half of the time the guides are well laid out and helpful. The other times they aren't. This is the only guide out there and it does have some info to help complete the game and find the collectables and such in the single player. It also included the point values for actions in the multiplayer.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good for single player, kinda, nothing much on multi side., June 27, 2008
This review is from: Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
I agree with other review. Feels really cheap and quickly put together. The pictures are really small and the paper is cheap. I wanted to pick this up to get a good review of the multiplayer maps but there aren't any layouts like in the RB6 or the COD4 guide. They actually covered each map on just one page. They give you 1 by 1 inch pictures of a house or base and what can you do with it. There is not a reference point to match it to on a map. For two of the maps they had so little to say they fit both on one page.
I looked at this in the store and decided to skip it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
BattleField Bad Company Strategy Guide, January 7, 2011
This review is from: Battlefield: Bad Company: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
Personally, I would have to say that this book is complete & tells me EVERYTHING I need to know such as the locations of all the gold bars in every map ... to the location of all the collectible weapons & it helps me alot.
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