Starcraft Expansion Set: Brood War (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) [Paperback]

Bart Farkas (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: January 6, 1999

Critical single-player strategies
Advanced multiplayer strategies for total domination
Complete stats for all-new Terran, Protoss, and Zerg units
Details about the new worlds
Alternate Starcraft strategies direct from the game testers

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Just when you thought the Zerg were dead . . .

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (January 6, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761518118
• ISBN-13: 978-0761518112
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,739,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's not all to bad., February 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Starcraft Expansion Set: Brood War (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

I don't know what everybody is talking about. When I got this book I was not interested in spelling or grammer. This guide can walk you through every mission and give an ok review on all the units. If you're a beginner at this game, this book is perfect for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Falling StarCraft, August 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Starcraft Expansion Set: Brood War (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

As far as helping you through the different levels of Brood War this book gets the job done and is written in the same style as his first StarCraft book. Farkas definately didn't earn his money writing this one. You get the distinct feeling that he played through the game and wrote down what he remembered in a weekend or he never played the game at all and wrote down what Blizzard's game designers told him. Based purely on the elements of what defines a well written book, this one falls flat on its face. How do you get so many spelling errors in a book today with spell-check and proof readers? Go to level C. Where? It's not even shown. The fine edge between winning and losing is found in the details, so where are the "cool down" times? Every chapter in the book contains these kind of mistakes and more. Buy the book to get you through Brood Wars but for no other reason. Lets hope he doesn't write a math or history book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to learn or improve your Brood War game is..., October 7, 2002

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This review is from: Starcraft Expansion Set: Brood War (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

to buy this excellent book. I know how useful it is to watch replays, learn from friends etc. but this guide will provide a handy walkthrough, that will help you overcome the Single-player missions (that help you master the units and overcome the basics of the strategy) and then the Multy-player intense action. It provides excellent tips on how to beat each race (what strats to use against them) and even extras such as campaign editor and unit stats help. I for one didn't regret buying this examplary product, and I bet neither will you. It's cheap and useful, just what a SC gamer wants.

And I bet most of us are striving for SC perfecction, right? It's one of the most popular games of today, you know, if you don't play it, when you walk on the street people will point at you and say "hey look, there goes that guy that doesn't play SC, whatta case! When my son got all Fs in school, I said, "that's ok, you won the SC tourney and that's all that matters. Screw graduation ;)."."

Jokes and metaphor aside, I can assure you that if you really want to improve your SC skill, buy this book, it's well worth it and so much more... I know you probably play SC just for fun and not to be a progamer and travel to Korea etc. (neither do I), but it's more fun to squish others then get owned, you are happy instead of frustrated with just a little diligence and this game is a fine choice if you want to spend those endless-sleepless nights in front of the Computer ;).