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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

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Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: February 9, 1999

Absolute mastery of a new world.

Fulfill your manifest destiny to rule beneath a new star.

• Complete data and analysis on all Tech, Secret Projects, Facilities, and Units
• Detailed Strategies for quick conquest and long-term development
• Guidelines for creating your own scenarios and maps
• Hints, tips, shortcuts, and much more!

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Fulfill your manifest destiny to rule beneath a new star.

• Complete data and analysis on all Tech, Secret Projects, Facilities, and Units
• Detailed Strategies for quick conquest and long-term development
• Guidelines for creating your own scenarios and maps
• Hints, tips, shortcuts, and much more!

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Product Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Prima Games (February 9, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761515844
ISBN-13: 978-0761515845
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but a long way from being good., August 22, 1999

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This review is from: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

There is some useful information about the game in here, but mainly if you want information about techs, facilities, and projects. What is really wanting are useful tips about tactics and campaign strategies. This book's format does make the information it gives easy to find, though. Still, it's a disappointment, and could have been so much better.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Useless, July 31, 1999

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The manual contains much more useful information...and it's free! Since it was too late to return it, I put the guide in the recycle bin so it would cease taking up any space in my room, despite the fact that I'm still regularly playing the game.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, Terrible Guide, June 27, 1999

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The paper this guide used was truly wasted and would have been better spent and more valuable if it had been used to insulate the inside of a cooler. It didn't say anything that you couldn't find in the manual, was poorly laid out[ Index wasn't even correct]and was unclear in its explanations.Bottom Line: Wait for a better guide and save your money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource!
This is a fantastic resource for Alpha Centauri. Very detailed information regarding techs, base facilities, units, and factions. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Charles

5.0 out of 5 stars Liked the Software, Liked the Book
The book is a good reference when playing the game. The information in the strategy guide contains more information than the game's on-line help. Read more

Published on December 26, 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Alternative manual - not strategy guide
The official strategy guide to SMAC was a disappointment. In retrospect, I realize I should have heeded the warnings in the other reviews. Read more

Published on August 14, 2001 by nick901

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Necessary: And Now Packaged Free With Game
Go to ZDNet: GameSpot: Game Guides for a free, downloadable and far superior guide to SMAC. We're (the reviewers) mostly in agreement here that this guide doesn't do enough... Read more

Published on March 31, 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Not good
This SG's maps are hard too read, and the stratageys are dumb. it is not good at all, although it does have cool discriptions of the techs. Read more

Published on October 9, 2000 by N. Wagstaff

1.0 out of 5 stars This isn't strategy
It would be charitable to say that the book had more than twenty pages of useful information. Most of the materiol is taking the information within the games own rather good... Read more

Published on July 9, 2000 by Ben Hsu

2.0 out of 5 stars plenty of reference, hardly any strategy
While it's generally agreed that Prima's guides are often letdowns, the Civilization-type games have usually been a noteworthy exception to the trend. Until now. Read more

Published on June 30, 2000 by J. K. Kelley

1.0 out of 5 stars no good - just a dump of notes on the program
This was a waste of money...got more information from the manual...usually these books are better than the manual and explain things better...completely useless...

Published on May 26, 1999 by Ron Ellis

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible-rewrite of info in manual-index incorrect
awful--do not buy--simply rewrites the info in the manual. The index is worthless--it gives incorrect page numbers. Pretty fold-out map is next to useless.

Published on April 26, 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars An average strategy guide, at best
I love the game, but am luke warm about this guide. While there is a fair amount of good advice early in the book, and some useful discussion of different strategic approaches to... Read more

Published on March 4, 1999

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