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Silent Hill 2 Official Strategy Guide

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This isn't a review just a little tip. The book is great for the right system so make sure you have the right book. The Silent Hill 2: RestLess Dreams (Brown Cover)Guide is for X-Box and The Silent Hill 2 (Green Cover)guide is for Playstation 2. I Found out as soon I bought it that I had the book for X-Box. So to save someone else the trouble of getting the wrong book I decided to write it in a review. Whats the difference you ask well Restless dreams is written with the controls for X-Box in mind and there is a version in (Restless Dreams)that shows you how to control another character. So The green cover version has the controls for Playstation in mind. Hope this was helpful for anyone else who was thinking about buying the book but didn't know what the difference was.

The title of the review says it all. this is an awesome strategy guide. The book holds your hand and walks you through the entire game. It even tells you what all the endings are and how to get them all. There are no spoilers here. The maps are great and there are full items lists. Buy this book. You can't go wrong.

This isn't a review just a little tip. The book is great for the right system just make sure you have the right book. The Silent Hill 2: RestLess Dreams (Brown Cover)Guide is for X-Box and The Silent Hill 2 (Green Cover)guide is for Playstation 2. I Found out as soon I bought it that I had the book for X-Box. So to save someone else the trouble of getting the wrong book I decided to write it in a review. Whats the difference you ask well Restless dreams is written with the controls for X-Box in mind and there is a version in (Restless Dreams)that shows you how to control another character. So The green cover version has the controls for Playstation in mind. Hope this was helpful for anyone else who was thinking about buying the book but didn't know what the difference was.

This guide is perfect if you just want to beat the game and be done with it. This guide is HORRIBLE if you are like me, and want to get all endings and find all the secrets. This guide has the nerve to actually tell you about about secrets, and then NOT tell you how to obtain said items and/or info. For example, if you wanted the "Rebirth" ending, you have to have several items in your inventory at the end of the game. The guide tells of this ending, and the items and all but one of their locations. Obviously, they forgot to put in the item description next to the name of the item. I actually had to go and look it up online...even after PAYING MONEY for this "complete guide".

I also found several regular items (example handgun ammo, health drink, etc) not mention in the walkthough.

I advise just printing out a user written guide from one of the million cheat sites, sadly enough.

And Yes, I have the correct guide for the system I am playing it on.

Please note that the five stars are for the content of the strategy guide only because, regardless of what people have to say on the subject, this strategy guide isn't needed as you wander the misty realms of Silent Hill in search of Mary and that "special place" you long to return to. In fact, it is simply a way to slight yourself and the gaming experience that you've no doubt gone out of your way to acquire. This isn't to say that it isn't useful if you feel hard-pressed and left without options and it also isn't meant to imply that it doesn't include everything one needs to take a walk through James Sutherland's life. In fact, this is quite the contrary, saying that everything is here. I've compared its content to that I've found elsewhere after I used it on my third run through the Hill and it was it was quite inclusive. That, however, is the problem if your only wanting a casual playing experience, because once you've done something you've done it and you can't repeat it. Reading a "how to" isn't always the best way to find out these little tidbits of gameplay.

Instead, one needs only to take their time and look around in their first outing, remembering that something is potentially an item or a place to go and that ever scrap of paper is a clue. It also should be taken into account that searching is needed, and that all enemies are defeatable, and that there are multiple endings based on time used, difficulty, on the items found, and the number of beasts killed. Since this takes multiple tries anyhow, one can find these out without the use of a visual aid.

Unless you like to spend hours, months even years in Silent Hill, get this book. It has everything you need to know with out giving away all the games secrets. I would have been still playing the game trying to figure out how to open the Safe or the Trick-or-Treat box without this book. It also explores alittle of the games creator's dark sick mind, a must.

Thank goodness I had the Strategy Guide for Silent Hill, otherwise I would still be wandering around the foggy streets or some nasty, decaying hotel without a clue.

I am not much on games, but I got this one for my adult daughter. I find some of the violence objectionable but I am hooked on this game. I think if you love mysteries, and get satisfaction in solving a mystery, you will get hooked on this game. I love this game and would recommend it to any adult seeking adventure, terror, suspense and a great love story on this man's quest for his dead wife. I find this intriguing and I can't wait to get to the next level, to explore along with James this scenic, often scary foggy setting, great graphics to a ending that is gripping and surprising. That's my take on it, I absolutely love it, but beware it is for adults, I am even squemish with some of the violence, so not for the young ones.