Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Dan Birlew (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bradygames Strategy Guides | Publication Date: August 4, 2003

BradyGames' Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide features comprehensive maps that mark key locations of items and supplies, including areas without in-game maps! Detailed walkthrough that includes puzzle solutions. Boss tactics guide players through every aspect of Heather's ordeal, in the normal world and the horrifying Reverse World. Game secrets, complete item and weapon coverage, enemy information and more!

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BradyGames' Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide features comprehensive maps that mark key locations of items and supplies, including areas without in-game maps! Detailed walkthrough that includes puzzle solutions. Boss tactics guide players through every aspect of Heather's ordeal, in the normal world and the horrifying Reverse World. Game secrets, complete item and weapon coverage, enemy information and more!

About the Author

Konami Corporation is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, specializing in the home video game market. Konami Corporation's action and adventure titles include the popular franchises Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and Castlevania, among other top sellers. The latest information about Konami can be found on the Web at www.konami.com. Konami Corporation is a publicly traded company based in Tokyo, Japan with subsidiary offices, Konami of America, Inc. in the US and Konami of Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. Details of the products distributed by Konami of America, Inc. can be found at www.konami.com/usa.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Brady Games; 1st edition (August 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744003199
• ISBN-13: 978-0744003192
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,999 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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You need this to advance in the game, January 16, 2004

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George Rownd (Rochester, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This game can get pretty confusing and you can easily miss an item or get lost. sometimes you have to back track and the levels get really wierd and you will not remember where you needed to go. some of the puzzles are tought without a guide an using items when you are supposed to is hard to do. Once I needed to look behind a shelf and I had no idea that I would use my camera to take a picture of what was behind it. Very very helpful because the game can get you lost quickly and you will get stuck without this guide to help you. It also give you cheats for the end of the game.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, great author..., October 3, 2004

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nemesis (colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

let me say that if there was ever a silent hill you needed a strategy guide for, silent hill 3 is it. I was able to breeze through the original and the second on hard mode, but Silent hill 3 does a very good job of leaving you lost and confused throughout most of the game. The guide does a great job of walking you through the tough parts, and holding your hand when things get chaotic and creepy. As with all guides however, I recomend buying this one only if you are a fan or collector, because you can easilly find guides for SH3 online for free.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overall, it great, August 18, 2004

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J. A. Veizaga - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silent Hill 3 Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I found this guide very helpful. It should find to the people who purchases it very helpful, too. There are some parts in the game, where some places are like mazes. I spent over 40 minutes to get out! Thankfully I bought this guide and it was very helpful for me to complete the game. It also has cheats, more info on characters, info. on monsters. It also has a plot, synopsis and character relation chart, but read it for last, it has spoilers in it!