Devil May Cry 4: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: February 5, 2008 | Series: Prima Official Game Guides

Complete step-by-step mission analyses, illustrated with maps and screenshots.
All hidden items and secret missions are exposed, with tips for completing strenuous side challenges.
Complete lists of bonus modes, attack combos, and other extras.
Full charts explore the mission ranking system, giving players the details and the exact scores needed to get the highest rank.

Editorial Reviews

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These following ten tips come from the author of the Devil May Cry 4 Official Game Guide, Dan Birlew. Check these out to get the best stylish combos, all the orbs and every secret mission in the game!

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761558977
• ISBN-13: 978-0761558972
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.4 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #524,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Birlew is an author and video game expert who has been writing official, published video game strategy guides since 1999. His original career goals included acting and directing. Video games always excited Dan since he was seven years old, but at the age of twenty-six he began honing his playing skills with the goal of becoming an expert gamer. He enjoyed publishing online documents regarding games, known as "FAQs". Dan inadvertently created an online persona for himself when he wrote and self-published on the Internet a plot analysis of the highly popular survival horror video game, Silent Hill. "The game's story was somewhat vague, and demanded that someone try to explain it," says Birlew.

Upon receiving an overwhelming number of positive responses from other Silent Hill fans, and after some gentle nudging from his wife, Birlew decided to set aside his acting and directing activities to establish a career as a video game strategy guide author. He sent writing samples to several publishing companies. Based on the merits of his very first submission, he was hired by a major publisher within 24 hours. Birlew says, "It was as though I had won the lottery."

Birlew has authored over sixty published video game strategy guides and seeks other methods of publication, such as review columns, articles, and other non-fiction video game-related books. Birlew says of his passion for games, "I love exploring video games, the industry, the culture, the fans -- and there is so much of it about which I can analyze and write." He also bears a strong desire to publish fiction, and is currently working on a novel concerning the paranormal.

Dan Birlew is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, and California. He now resides in Las Vegas with his wife of seventeen years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. Besides video games, Birlew also enjoys Japanese films and dining with his family and friends in the restaurants and clubs of Las Vegas.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great, April 29, 2008

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This review is from: Devil May Cry 4: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

I have the game know i have the guide book its handy when your playing the game it tells you how to get more orbs and teaches you more techneqies. A helpfull book and the game is great to great book and great game.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S EASY TO PLAY GAME!!!, June 26, 2008

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Popcicle "Ruby" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Devil May Cry 4: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

THIS GAME GUIDE WAS GOOD. IT IS EASY TO FIND THE ITEMS AND SOLVE THE MISSIONS. ALSO THIS GAME GUIDE WAS DESCRIBE WELL THE STORY LINE. I LIKE IT.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Devil May Cry 4, December 16, 2009

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Vincent Hun (Springfield, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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One of the best action games ever to come out on Playstation 3!!! simply fun and exciting to play. very entertaining story and beautiful cut scenes. Good job capcom!!