Resident Evil(TM) Official Strategy Guide for GameCube [Paperback]

Dan Birlew (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bradygames Take Your Games Further | Publication Date: April 19, 2002

BradyGames Resident Evil Official Strategy Guide for GameCube provides complete walkthroughs for Jill and Chris to lead players through the entire game-twice! Highly detailed maps depict every area and pinpoint key items, while expert boss tactics show how to defeat each ghastly beast! Game secrets revealed, plus game path flowcharts are provided.

This Signature Series guide also includes an exclusive poster, interviews with the developers and much more!

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BradyGames Resident Evil Official Strategy Guide for GameCube provides complete walkthroughs for Jill and Chris to lead players through the entire game-twice! Highly detailed maps depict every area and pinpoint key items, while expert boss tactics show how to defeat each ghastly beast! Game secrets revealed, plus game path flowcharts are provided.

This Signature Series guide also includes an exclusive poster, interviews with the developers and much more!

About the Author

Capcom Entertainment, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capcom, Co., Ltd. of Japan. A leading force in the multi-billion dollar interactive entertainment industry, Capcom's legacy spans 22 years of entertaining video gamers. Capcom develops, markets, and distributes home video games for the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 game consoles, Game Boy Systems, personal computers, and coin-operated games. Worldwide recognizable product lines include the Street Fighter, Mega Man, Breath of Fire, and the Resident Evil series. World headquarters in Osaka, Japan, the company also has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Sunnyvale, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Brady Games; 1st edition (April 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744001641
• ISBN-13: 978-0744001648
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Birlew is an author and video game expert who has been writing official, published video game strategy guides since 1999. His original career goals included acting and directing. Video games always excited Dan since he was seven years old, but at the age of twenty-six he began honing his playing skills with the goal of becoming an expert gamer. He enjoyed publishing online documents regarding games, known as "FAQs". Dan inadvertently created an online persona for himself when he wrote and self-published on the Internet a plot analysis of the highly popular survival horror video game, Silent Hill. "The game's story was somewhat vague, and demanded that someone try to explain it," says Birlew.

Upon receiving an overwhelming number of positive responses from other Silent Hill fans, and after some gentle nudging from his wife, Birlew decided to set aside his acting and directing activities to establish a career as a video game strategy guide author. He sent writing samples to several publishing companies. Based on the merits of his very first submission, he was hired by a major publisher within 24 hours. Birlew says, "It was as though I had won the lottery."

Birlew has authored over sixty published video game strategy guides and seeks other methods of publication, such as review columns, articles, and other non-fiction video game-related books. Birlew says of his passion for games, "I love exploring video games, the industry, the culture, the fans -- and there is so much of it about which I can analyze and write." He also bears a strong desire to publish fiction, and is currently working on a novel concerning the paranormal.

Dan Birlew is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, and California. He now resides in Las Vegas with his wife of seventeen years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. Besides video games, Birlew also enjoys Japanese films and dining with his family and friends in the restaurants and clubs of Las Vegas.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is it just me or is Resident Evil a hard game?, December 14, 2002

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Sam The Alligator (from the swamps of the midwest,U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resident Evil(TM) Official Strategy Guide for GameCube (Paperback)

This is a useful and detailed guide but be warned you still have to write your own notes on what you did wrong and accidentally and do some backtracking. I think Prima guide is probably more helpful but I havent purchased that yet.Also Rogue Leader really isnt especially confusing but RE is.Still love the graphics though.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, May 22, 2002

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zachary middaugh (hamton, new york) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resident Evil(TM) Official Strategy Guide for GameCube (Paperback)

This book helped me through the hardest parts of the game and I love the game so the book just added the fun I had with the game. I hope any one who buys the game get the book it will help you a great deal. I hope that any one with this book have a great and fun time.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars helpful, August 8, 2004

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nemesis (colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resident Evil(TM) Official Strategy Guide for GameCube (Paperback)

while not nessecery to finish the game by any means, this guide is still very helpful, especially if you are trying to unlock different endings, or cheats.