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Resident Evil 3 Nemesis: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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It was very descreptive. It gave locations of important items and weapons. It was well writen and well illustrated.

This guide was very informative for the most part. mapping out just about every step you take. However, sometimes the book will just say "go to (insert location)" and not even try to tell you how to get there. The monster section was informative but somehwhat of a dissapointment. It did have every monster in good description, but little info on strategies to use against them. My biggest problem, and this mind you is unforgivable to me, the author makes a lame attempt to tell you how to get the rocket launcher. The exact line is something like "A good friend of mine at Capcom told me you can use the lab key to open the locker where the rocket launcher is. I haven't gotten it to work however. Maybe you will have more luck." I got so mad because he failed at it and made NO attempt to figure out how to get the rocket launcher. Yes, the key is needed to open the locker, but first you have to get it imprinted with special clearance data at the computer next to the machine where you purify the water. It was not hard to figure that out but the author made no attempt to figure it out. Extreme laziness on his part. If you got the game, you may as well get the book, I didn't get it until after I beat the game, but it's definately worth the money. ALl in all it's a pretty good guide with very few mistakes in it. The only other minus is that it does not have a weapons chart.

I thought it was the best guide. It got me thru the whole game in less than two and a half hours. It tells you all the secrets, all the characters, and all the moves you can do to get away from the walking dead. They even tell you what all the monsters are like the Tyrant, cybrids, zombies, and giant spiders. I would give this guide more than 5 stars if I could. You should get this guide for the best detailed maps, they describe areas perfectly, and they dont tell you where monsters are. I would rush and get this guide at Amazon.com.

This guide was not very helpful to me at all. Almost no detail in the maps, didn't help out with puzzles (thats not too big but it could've explained how to get the solution), some screenshots in the wrong place and some misleading information.

First of all, the walkthrough is very dull. It'll tell you how to get to certain areas, but I found several screenshots in the wrong place, and the walkthrought moved very quickly. There wasn't enough detail to tell me what I'm running into. They don't tell you how enemy placements work, or what items could be replaced as.

The Quick-Decisions card was nice, but I could've gotten along without it. Also, the guide doesn't tell you what items nemesis drops. While it would tell me sometimes, something was always missing.

The puzzle solutions that they claim to be there, aren't really there. They hardly tell you how to get to a solution. For example at one point in the guide when your searching for a password it reads and I quote "Just look around for a while and bingo! (That's not the password)." The problem with this? What am I looking for? I don't know! It just tells me to look around. Every other guide I saw told me EXACTLY what I was looking for at that point in the game.

The maps are from the ingame so of course they have no level of detail in them, making the maps useless. The only thing this guide really did state to me were the secrets. However, it didn't cover too much about the rankings or the mini-game.

My Advice, VERSUS BOOKS and BradyGAMES made a guide to RE3 and they're much better than this. (The BradyGAMES guide even tells you what's in Jill's diary!) So you might want to looke away from Prima for this guide.

I have played through Resident Evil 3 about 40 times now. Itis one of my all time favorite games (along with R.E.2), but it wasn'tuntil I had beaten the game a few times when I got this. I boughtthis guide because I kept on dying against Nemesis and wanted help.Well, then I started finding secret items throughout the game, andpretty soon I became the unstoppable player to the point where Istarted to yell down at Nemesis even before we started to fight.

I,before this, never knew how to use red herbs, how to make gunpowder C,or the best weapon arrangements. He also went into detail of maps andscenarios that I may never get myself into. He clearly had allplayers in mind when writing this. I learned the secrets of theseries even after I had gone through this game before and itspredecessor about 25 times. This is the perfect aid for people new tothe series, new to this title, and for the hardcore veterans whothought that they had reached playing perfection (like me).

This is a great guide, the best for this game, it basically tells you everything. It mentions the weapons but forgets one. It also doesn't explain how to get the rocket launcher either. He could have been lazy or just did'nt have the time. He gave it his all and it was more than good enough.

Some of the best information in this book is the Live Selection tips. They tell you exactly what will happen and which would be a waste of time or not the best choice. I think this is a time saver. Also, it gives nice tips on what you should dump or take with you in certain situations so you're not running back and forth to save rooms wasting time.

Also good information on how to fight nemisis and where enemies are lurking so you're prepared when you go in rooms and around corners.

The problems I had was the maps which could read the room titles or anything other than jsut D22, D16 or U46. That's pretty confusing when you're on a timer or running from an enemy-- you could get lost and have too backtrack right into them.

It doesn't tell you exactly how to solve the puzzles, claiming they change every time the game is loaded. Okay, I buy that, but there were other things also that were unhelpful. For example, with the boss fight nemisis after the trolley accident, it says to keep throwing mine throwers at him to get him to drop the grenade launcher.

I played this scene AT LEAST 20 times in a row before I discovered that hitting him in the chest with mine throwers until empty, then hitting him with freeze rounds brought him to his knees. Basically, the book reminds you throughout to master the dodge--which I STILL can't do, and you will be okay. The fight with the grave digger is the same way. It's not about dodging, it's about
*speed*. As soon as you turn on the power to the ladder, get over to it and press X and it will ask you "do you want to climb up the ladder?" It's like at this point the games stops to ask the question--stopping the grave digger too.

You answer yes, and you go on up, you don't have to deal with the GD anymore because the game never stops in that capacity. I have learned that beating on the controller for the Dodge hasn't really helped me yet. However, this book isn't completly useless. It helped me enough that I could play comfortably without getting stuck or frustrated, and I was able to finish fine. If you can get it used, do it.

Hate to have to say this, but I've gotten better help in a game from the opposing pitcher. Not only did it not help, but it was hard to muddle through. Prima should hire good writers even if thy don't intend to put out good guides.

This guide is the bomb it is very detailed. It even tells you which is the best choice to choose! There are good maps to.

Good illustrations and enemy overviews, but the text pizzed me off a few times with sentences like "now go back to where you..." Of course, I am a big wuss most of the time and prefer information fed to me baby style. But the BOSS FIGHT instructions were very detailed, as well as what would happen when you came upon a LIVE SELECTION. Overall a strong guidebook.