PlanetSide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) [Paperback]

Joe Grant Bell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: May 27, 2003

For Land. For Power. Forever.
·Exhaustive stats and info on each Empire's weapons, vehicles, armor, and gear
·Comprehensive strategies for common battlefield situations
·Learn to build an effective squad and exploit each member's unique skills
·Effective strategies for commanding your fellow players
·How to plan your character's development with the right certifications and implants
·Techniques for being a sought-after teammate with sound tactics and crucial skills
·Tips for avoiding common pitfalls!

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (May 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761542469
• ISBN-13: 978-0761542469
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,362,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to date with game, November 16, 2004

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Russell J. Brown "fanatical moderate" (Brookfield, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PlanetSide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

This book is useful for its strategy discussions, but much of it is now incorrect. Ceritfications have changed and mechs in core combat have changed the landscape of planetside - they are not mentioned in this book. This book also treats Planetside as combat across multiple continents, not the planets connected by jump gates in the current game.

5.0 out of 5 stars It is what it is. Don't expect too much & you'll be happy., June 26, 2003

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Daniel Evans Jr. (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PlanetSide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

Why jmu would use his review space to bash Prima is beyond me. Here's a clue: Planetside is persistent, on-line world. Books are permanently printed on paper. Of course they're not going to put hit points and other hard numbers about weapons, armor types etc. BECAUSE THEY CHANGE. They've changed already and the game has only been out a month. As the developers see fit, weapons change, vehicles are added, base attributes change, objectives are modified, etc. To put it all down in a book, print that book, and then have to change that book every time the devs come up with an update is simply cost prohibitive. If you really want to know about hard numbers, check the website . . . OFTEN.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars another ... excuse for a strategy guide from prima, June 4, 2003

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jmu (charlotte nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PlanetSide (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

I'm a big fan of the planetside game so naturally when I heard that the book store where I work had gotten in a copy of this strategy guide I was anxious to see it. I was very very dissapointed. The 'strategies' presented in the guide involve more common sense than anything, with such gems as 'crouch while firing' and 'strafe to avoid being hit'. As far as game information the guide has very little you can't find in game, there are no hard numbers on any of the weapons or vehicles as far as damage, rate of fire, and other things are considered, instead the guide uses relative numbers (1 is the worst, 5 is the best) to 'rate' each weapon in each category. As far as maps of the game world go, they are in black white just like the rest of the book, but the contrast is so low that you can't tell whats on them and they are much to small to prove any use as far as planning goes. The facility maps are even worse and are little more than screen shots of the minimap from ingame. Overall I'm really dissapointed but I guess I shouldn't expect much more from a company that consistantly puts out lackluster material.