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Crysis: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

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This book has everything I wanted to know about Crysis. It arrived in good time and good condition.

Excellent guide for an excellent game.Describes multiple options for a given scenario and also has tips on free-lancing if you don't want to follow the guide.

This guide covers every mission in Crysis in great detail. Gives several options for getting to the next checkpoint with efficiency. The reading gets a little tedious because of the game detail so it can only be read one mission at a time. It does not read like a fluid novel - but that's not its objective.

Well written guide; it uses various colors of call-outs to draw your attention to things like Wanrings (red), or Advisories (blue), or Pointers (amber).

The design is such that the book lays open nicely, but the inside margins (binder margin) could have beeen a little wider. You have to press down on the spine to read the text; not a big deal, just make it easier to look at the pages while you're playing the game.

Clear text, numerous pictures and well-written instructions. It takes some tyime to get used to the keyboard techniques, but practice makes perfect, and the book's hints help improve your gaming proficiency.

Decent guide. I like collecting them. OCDish I guess. I do have too many. I do use them though! This one, was useful several times. I like playing games without guides, until I hit a roadblock. This game is fairly straight forward and can be had without much guiding. There are times when the openness of the game does require a quick map look to verify directionality. One section in particular, I did not read the book for fear I would be further confused. You are under water, and the various exits and entrances are very 3D, up, down, in all directions, and just felt the guide might prolong the agony of hunting and fighting the swimming creatures. You try it with a read and let me know. Good game of strictly combat skills. Not quite as varied or puzzling as a Half Life excursion, but very nice Hi-Def battling.

They just don't make guides like they did in the past with plenty of pic-by-pic play-by-play, such as a Tomb Raider guide from 1,2,3,4,or AOD. They had pictures telling you of every move and where to go next. That being the pinnacle of guides ever made, it is tough to measure up to TR perfection. Many TR games could not be played without a guide. Many a maneuver or jump needed to be made blindly off a cliff to an unseen catch hold or ledge, and would be impossible to ferret out without the help of a guide. I gave it a 7, but could easily vary to a 5 by any else's standards. I really like reviewing the 10 or complete bust, but this was just better than average.

I like the surprises in games. The kind that make you jump and start reacting. Guides sometimes remove this visceralness. If you like collecting guides, and do read them occassionally, you will like the guide. Too many people expect too much from a guide, probably old TR readers I guess.

One last comment about the usefulness of the guide. This could be just me, but I found that when I went to the guide for direction, it was difficult to find the matching area in the book. I gave up several times and mustered on. When you are in the island/jungle area, many of the guides pictures, chapters, and tips are all a blur at times when you are looking for a quick resolve. Again, unlike many other guides I have used, hunting for a particular area by picture was difficult.

This is an awesome game guide for an awesome game. It is most helpful in learning about how to use the nano suit and how to locate the enemies.

This thing is extremely difficult to follow. This guy is trying to show you every possible way through each level all at once and it just makes it difficult to use. There are so many box-outs and side notes you don't know which one to follow. I don't need to sift through twenty five pages, delineating five different ways to get through a level. This guy should have checked out the walk through for Oblivion, the most open-ended go-anywhere game ever made. For all the games complexities, the walk through for Oblivion is a well laid out, easy to follow walk through. This one, however, is just a mess. I bought it and hardly used it. Save your money and grope your way through the game. Crysis is a pretty linear anyway. You can do it.