34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Rushed and mostly uninformative, June 24, 2003
This review is from: Eve Online: The Second Genesis (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)
An incredibly intricate and complex game such as Iceland-based CCP's "EVE: The Second Genesis" would almost certainly deserve to be accompanied by an appropriately informative strategy guide. Unfortunately, Prima has failed to accomplish this task. I will not go so far as to say that the book has NO value to an EVE player, but it certainly lacks the features of similar guides for other online games. The useful features that Prima's EVE guide DOES provide:
- A brief description of each of the four primary empires (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar), their respective races and their schools. This information is just as easily obtained during character creation, however.
- Stories and historical references that flesh out the setting of EVE.
The rest is garbage:
The Prima guide contains incorrect starship statistics (inaccurate even when the game "went gold"). The "maps" section is nothing but tiny, poor-resolution screenshot thumbnails that are of absolutely no practical use. There are timelines for the races, and it is obvious that they were simply photocopied from the game manual. The Prima guide features obvious editing errors: for instance, the pictures for the Amarr Bestower industrial ship are not included, instead the Caldari Blackbird cruiser's pictures are repeated there instead.
In summary, the guide can do very little to help a beginning EVE player grasp the fundamentals of EVE more quickly. It can be of interest to EVE fans who want the additional immersion that comes from background history and stories.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Absolute waste of money, December 23, 2005
This review is from: Eve Online: The Second Genesis (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)
I bought this guide after just 3 days of game play as there seems to be a derth of easy-to-access information in-game. This 'guide' is merely a series of data copied from the game screens and a number of screen shots. You don;t even get to enjoy the pictures in color - this book is entirely black and white on low quality paper.
No information on tech trees, how to progress as a player (new or established), zero combat information....need I say more?
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DO NOT WASTE YOU'RE MONEY ON THIS TITLE, November 28, 2003
This review is from: Eve Online: The Second Genesis (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)
i bought this book after playing this excellent game for only 2 weeks. the information contained within it was useless to even at this early stage of gameplay. you will be much better off saving your money and reading the posts in the many player support forums on various websites.
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