Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature Guides) [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bradygames Signature Guides | Publication Date: October 23, 2006

BradyGames’ Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Signature Series Guide includes the following:

• A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game.
• Extensive area maps.
• Expert strategies to defeat even the toughest boss.
• Complete enemy listing.
• In-depth team tactics.
• Game secrets revealed!
• Signature series guide includes bonus foldout, content and more!

Platform: PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, GameBoy Advanace and PC

Genre: Action/Adventure

This product is available for sale worldwide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES (October 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744008441
• ISBN-13: 978-0744008449
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thom Denick has been working in the game's industry for 9 years. Initially a grunt tester for classic games like Jedi Knight 2, Tony Hawk 3, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, he eventually worked his way up to leading the QA teams for Jedi Knight 3, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, and the cult-classic Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

Thom has been authoring strategy guides for five years, and has developed a reputation for in-depth, detailed coverage of the games he is writing about.

Thom is also a hardcore gamer and has over a GamerScore of over 100,000 on Xbox Live and has begun developing his own games in his free time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Comprehensive Guide, November 14, 2006

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Rex Dart - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature Guides) (Paperback)

I've bought some Prima guides over the years, and sometimes feel like I was kinda ripped off. Not so with this one.

The walkthrough is appropriately comprehensive and detailed, as should be expected. The playing tips actually exceed my expectations, though. For example, the writeups on each hero don't simply rank their powers on how much damage they do or how efficient they are, but also on how simple or complicated they are to use! This is very useful, especially for older, clumsier gamers like me. If Power A is "by the numbers" better than Power B, but requires some complex button manipulation to execute properly in the heat of battle, it's not that good for me. Nice to see a book that recognizes this principle. It reads like the authors really played the game a lot, and aren't just regurgitating design documentation or something.

I'm about 3/5 through the game, and there don't seem to be any major changes to the game that make the guide book "outdated" by late code changes. I've run into a couple here and there, but they're all minor things, nothing that really seems to impact gameplay.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Guide--Bad Binding, May 30, 2007

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Michael (BAKERSFIELD, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature Guides) (Paperback)

I thought that this was a really great guide to beat the game and uncover literally every secret in the game. The maps were detailed and very helpful and the character descriptions were very helpful. DESPITE all the good that it did-for some reason, my copy had the worst binding of any book I have ever bought. I didn't trash the book at all, just through normal wear, it lost its binding and is now broken up into 5 sections in between the covers. Way to go Brady for writing a great book but whoever put that together for you was a moron.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get the book, save the universe, November 3, 2008

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D. Faraci (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature Guides) (Paperback)

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is filled with hidden items, choices that change the story and puzzles that take some serious thought. This guide will help you not only get through the game and save the Marvel Universe, but it will teach you a few little known facts about Marvel comics (which will also help you get some serious XP). I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to see and do everything this great game offers