Halo Wars: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) [Paperback]

David Hodgson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima Official Game Guides | Publication Date: March 3, 2009

Lift the Fog of War with exclusive, full-color maps of all the Campaign and Multiplayer locations. With all choke points, each ambush location, and every supply crate, base point, and other pertinent location revealed.
Comprehensive, multi-layered tactics for the Campaign mode, including battle-tested plans for Cooperative play, and the fabled Legendary difficulty setting.
Create an impenetrable base we show you how to correctly turn a poorly-defended Firebase into a Fortress, including what to build, and when.
Every single UNSC and Covenant troop, unit, vehicle, and aircraft is showcased, along with its upgrades, weaknesses, and advice on using it to your tactical advantage.
Every hidden Skull and Black Box located and tested, including a complete Halo timeline.
Packed with dozens of pages of the most awe-inspiring exclusive Halo art ever seen!

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761561811
• ISBN-13: 978-0761561811
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Computers & Technology > Games & Strategy Guides > Internet Games

More About the Author

Originally hailing from the English city of Manchester, David began his video game career in 1995, writing for numerous classic British gaming magazines from a rusting, condemned, dry-docked German fishing trawler floating on the River Thames. Fleeing the United Kingdom, he joined the crew at the part-fraternity, part-sanitarium known as GameFan magazine. David helped launch GameFan Books and form Gamers' Republic, and was partly responsible for the wildly unsuccessful incite Video Gaming and Gamers.com. He wrote his first guide in 1996, but began authoring guides for Prima in 2000. He has written over 70 guides including: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess; Assassin's Creed; Half-Life: Orange Box; Mario Kart Wii; Halo 3: ODST; and Fallout 3. He lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, with his wife and an eight-foot statue of Great Cthulhu.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginner and advanced players, May 14, 2009

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Tanya Sigman (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halo Wars: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

If you like playing halo wars but are frustrated with it, get this guide and you will be playing halo wars A LOT! I love it.

The first section of the book deals with the basics. Things like how the different units work, what units work good against and what unit slaughters them. It also goes over some base building tactics and also some styles of play/tactics. Also in this section is some information about how the game's AI works when you play against the AI.

The second section deals with explaining all the buildings and units in the game, as well as the leaders. Each section for a unit has a rating for it based on hitpoints, damaged caused and movement as well as a few paragraphs of tactical tips for the unit.

Section three deals with the campaign part of the game. Each mission has it's own map with points of interest as well as a walkthrough with waypoints on the map. It shows where the skulls and black boxes are and gives tips on how to get them as well as each missions individual achievement. There are also tips on getting through the mission on the legendary setting.

The last section that deals with playing is based on the multi-player maps. Each multi-player map in the game is shown with points of interest as well as some tactical tips.

I highly recommend this guide as it will make the game much funner and you will end up being a much better player.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You need this game guide to win big!, April 8, 2010

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B. Saulsgiver "armor buff" (Apple Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halo Wars: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

If you play Halo Wars you already know how intuitive and easy the controller setup is for this fast paced game is. The maps are all detailed in this guide along with the locales of all skulls and black boxes. I found the mission details invaluable in planning out my pre-mission strategies against the Covenent and the Flood on all 15 missions. The game guide also contains a section on concept art. While this section does not help you win any missions it gives you a good look at the work and detail that went into the game itself. All in all a good guide to get if you want to add some bite to your game.

4.0 out of 5 stars Halo Wars, December 28, 2011

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Patricia E. Booth - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Halo Wars: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

Our whole family plays Halo and we use the guides for reading entertainment more than as a strategy helper. The guide is a fun read if you are into the Halo universe even though Halo Wars isn't like any of the other Halo games.