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

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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.

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.

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 ;).

It's a very cool book, if you get bored it will keep you busy for a long time. It also has a lot of good unit tricks and mission stuff. It also told me a cool code called RADIOFREEZERG that lets you listen to funny music. It has a lot of spelling errors though, like a Dart Archon (Dark Archon) and it called overlords overminds sometimes.

Are you stuck on a single player mission in Starcraft: Broodwar? If so then this book is for you, unless of course you want to degrade yourself and cheat.

I don't recommend using this book as a 'walkthrough' just use it for those missions you have tried and tried again without success. The strategies provided are clear and easy to understand. Even if you don't follow them exactly you can still get some good ideas as to how to go about the missions.

The book worked for me, and unless you're absolutely the worst Starcraft player ever it will probably work for you.

Great piece of work is all this book is! Great book, great strategies, and some nice ways to get you started on your campaign editing

It seems apropriate that this book is included with the Battle Chest - the only person this book would truly help is someone who has never played StarCraft before. "Tips" from the author range from obvious to shaky to wildly erroneous; More often then once the author states that an ability does one thing when it really does something completely different. The maps of single player missions are helpful, but the overly general nature of the "walkthroughs" leaves much of the thinking to you.

While people who are tenatively picking up SC:BW for the first time will appreciate having a book to hold their hand until they acquire a feel for the game, any regular SC player will tell you that the book's suggestions border on laughable. I use this book for the maps, but thats it; its a nice bonues with the Battle Chest, but not worth buying on its own.

this book helped me out alot even though i usaly used its for the cheats it has in it but it tells about baskicaly evreything you need to know about starcraft and brood war

Totally useless: waste of money. Go on battle.net and save replays if u wanna learn how to play right

Apparently the author thought the first starcraft book was good, and that the outline worked. He must not have received feedback from the first book in time to make the necessary changes to the second book. Anyway:

1) It describes the new units well enough, but so does the FAQ. It then goes on to describe the units but not in consistent detail. If I were reading this book only, or using as my only reference, "What is the attack range for ALL units including defensive units?". I guess he didn't check his book for consistency of information. Not good if he is intending to write more books.

2) The second half of the book is how to walk through and avoid the pit-falls of the "traps" in the missions. Would've been nice to include a general strategy. Also, if it was supposed to be thorough it could've given you the strategy to even beat the traps. As I progressed through the missions, I started destroying everything on the game board before finishing the mission (which sometimes was exactly that goal, ha ha).

If you are a newbie or you want to beat the missions without thinking about strategy, buy this book (it also comes in the battlechest version of the game).