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The Perfect Guide, August 28, 2007
This review is from: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
Prima's Metroid Prime 3: Corruption guide is a handy tool for conquering Nintendo's latest masterpiece. It's an all around good guide full of great tips and tricks to help you survive the perils of your adventure.
The guide begins with a nice short sweet introduction, and will then introduce you to the characters. It'll then jump into the basic controls as well as telling you about the various pick ups and power ups you'll get throughout your adventure and how to utilize them. There's also a small section dedicated to the credits, but there's more on that later on in the guide.
The guide waste no time getting you to the walkthrough which is a good walkthrough overall. There are times when it tells you what's going on, but unlike some of their previous guides, it does get to the point faster, and provide a lot more detail. The screenshots are crystal clear and throughout the walkthrough it'll call out to you tips and words of caution in green and red boxes respectably. It also calls out little notes in yellow boxes. Another great thing about the walkthrough is simply that it tells you when you have a chance to get some credits and friend vouchers. It's almost perfect. Another great thing that the guide does is inform you of optional things to do in a light green box so that you'll know its not something you'll have to do, but something you might want to do. Following these tips can usually net you an energy tank, missile expansion or credits.
The boss strategies presented are also very detailed and well done. Giving you all the basic things you need. Providing you with a good offensive strategy and telling you how to avoid some of the bosses more nastier attacks.
The maps in the walkthrough are pulled straight from the game, but that's alright. Since the ingame map itself is actually fairly detailed, that means these maps are too. They also point out the location of energy tanks missile expansions and the like. So it's the ingame map with more detail. With each map you also get a list of all the research and credits that can be obtained in an area.
After the walkthrough there's a map appendix. This helps to locate all the pickups scattered throughout the game, and it's not so bad. For the most part if you're using the walkthrough a lot, you won't need it too badly. But if you're just interested in all the pickups, searching the map appendix is far easier than searching the walkthrough.
Afterwards we get to the pickups appendix, which is just a list of all the pickups you can obtain. It's just a way to keep track of what you've grabbed and what you haven't grabbed. That way you don't needlessly backtrack.
Then we get to the scanning appendix which will show you everything you can scan, where it is and whether or not its a one time deal or if you've got other chances. It's color coded by area, but they don't have the key on every page. So you might be doing some page flipping here. However, it's not a huge section.
Finally we have the credits section. Here is where the guide will give you all the details on unlocking everything in the game. All the main credits are called out in the walkthrough, but all the bonus credits are listed here. The ones you get for meeting certain task. It'll then give you a table for all the unlockable content.
In the end this guide is unbelievably detailed. If you need help with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption... this is pretty much the perfect guide. An excellent walkthrough with excellent strategies.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Excelent!!!, December 7, 2007
This review is from: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
Its a really complete step by step guide including ALL screens of the full path to get this game finished with all possible credits. It's AMAZING. No way to get lost in this game using this book. It's like a person who has already finished that game showing you all the solutions for this puzzle.
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Really good guide with an amazing presentation, November 13, 2007
This review is from: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)
I haven't got in the need to use this guide as much as I thought, which is good, but in some parts of the game it was really useful. The presentation is amazing and the art in it is worth the price of the guide.
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