Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames) | Publication Date: October 24, 2007

A New Beginning...A Clean Slate

 

You’re on the frontlines of an epic war against an alien race bent on galactic conquest. Your home world has already fallen, and the survival of your species--its only chance at a new start--rests with a coalition of rebel forces: you and your comrades. This essential guide teaches you to exploit advanced weapons, specialized abilities, and harness the very fabric of the cosmos to resist the overwhelming foe known as The Bane!

 

Detailed Walkthrough
We lead you step by step through missions and instances--earn superior gear and advance through the ranks! We guide you from green recruit all the way to Tier IV character levels!

 

Battlefield Maps
Our area maps pinpoint Logos Shrines, Vendors, Waypoints, Hospitals, Control Points, NPCs, and many other crucial locations! Know the lay of the land before you deploy!

 

Expert Character Creation
We teach you the ins and outs of character creation. Complete class coverage reveals the pros, cons, skills, and abilities of every AFS career path!

 

Equipment Data
Our quick-reference tables provide stats for weapons, armor, and more--the data you need is always close at hand!

 

That’s Not All!
Grouping and Squad Coverage, Logos Dictionary, Gorgeous Concept Art, an Interview with Richard Garriott, and Much More!

 

Platform: PC

Genre: Role-Playing Game

This product is available for sale in North America only.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES (October 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074400943X
• ISBN-13: 978-0744009439
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacking past mid 20's..., November 12, 2007

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Teromous - See all my reviews

This review is from: Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

If you look through this book when you start playing Tabula Rasa, it would appear to contain maps of every area. This is because you've just started playing the game and don't know what to look for. At lower levels this book is very useful, containing maps of the instances and locations of Logos within them. It even gives you a heads-up on some of the tactics you'll need to employ against many enemies.

After playing the game a few days and getting past these new areas, you'll start to notice some things missing at first. First it will be a few quests missing from the book, then a few of the smaller instances. Later on it will become inexcusable. Large important instances will be missing from the book, without even so much as a map to look at.

I gave this book 2 stars because it does contain a lot of information, and for lower level players it does have useful maps. Later on you'll have to rely on fansites (from about 23-50).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Obsolete before it was released, November 14, 2007

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Dinubabear (Landover, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

They really should have waited until the game was released before sending this book to the press. The book is a walk through of the BETA TEST of Tabula Rasa. This means it mentions contacts and quests that no longer exist while not mentioning the current contacts. Also this is a rush job on editing, with the text of powers consistently mentioning a 2 minute duration while the table lists a 1 minute duration for the same power and other obvious disagreements. Finally, the book is only usable for the early levels and totally ignores the later levels and maps, plus there are no sample character builds and the suggested levels to train skills and powers disagree between text and tables.

If you want pretty pictures of the game on nice glossy pages, this is your book. It looks very nice.

But if you can read & retain that information and you want accurate hints that will help you through ALL of the game, wait until another book is published that explains the current game accurately. I'm sorry I preordered this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No longer needed, March 17, 2009

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J. K. Zupancic - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa Official Strategy Guide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

This product is no longer needed, Tabula Rasa is no more. As for the guide, all the info that was ever needed could have been found online. Guide was dated at publish.