Starcraft : Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Bart Farkas (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: May 1998

Complete stats for Terran, Protoss, and Zerg species
Tactics for optimal use of all units
Multiplayer strategies to devastate your opponents
Detailed maps for all 30 missions
Strategies for managing your resources and building your empire
Terran, Zerg, and Protoss tech trees
Advice on mastering the campaign editor

About the Author

Bart Farkas is the author of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Game Secrets for the N64, Wing Commander IV: Unauthorized Secrets & Solutions, Lords of the Realm II: The Official Strategy Guide, and other Prima titles. He is the editor-in-chief of Inside Mac Games.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

StarCraft: Prima's Official Strategy Guide is the perfect reference for solo play. The guide provides detailed walk-throughs for each of the game's 30 levels, with clearly marked maps and screen shots to help illustrate important points and tactics. The book offers more than 50 pages of statistics on the various units available and an easy-to-follow list of general strategies. Statistical information about the game's units and buildings, a section dedicated to the StarCraft campaign editor, and a brief multiplayer primer for gameplay on Battle.net round out the guide. --Michael Ryan

Review

Crisis — your only choice is Interstellar War.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761504966
• ISBN-13: 978-0761504962
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,116,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming > Strategy

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A horrid guide to balance out a great game, January 26, 2000

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Alex (College Park, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Starcraft : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Strangely enough the people at Prima managed to skew the guide to one of the best games of all time by forgetting the fact that most of the players have already read the manual (and those who have not have not done so either because they don't care for hints or the game was rented). In fact, the guide has even less information than the manual - whereas the manual lists the strengths and weaknesses of the units as well as the buildings. The guide had one paragraph to say about the human's entire architectural menagerie. This would have been completely acceptable had the book attempted to reveal the web of srtategy possible with StarCraft ( defensive unit combinations, strategic turret positioning, formations, expansion rates, among others). The guide remains mysteriously silent on all these topics, instead repeating the information routinely found in the manual, adding - drumroll, please! - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I have nothing to say but: if you have the manual, you already know what this book says. Think rather than buy.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Blah. I'd rather have the game manual., July 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Starcraft : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This book came free with the "Battle Chest" but I really wish they had included the game manual instead. (If you want that, you have to print it from the PDF file on the CD.) The "strategy guide" is really a rehashed reference for the different races which could be useful if not for the choppy, amateurish writing, and just the enormous amount of black ink used in printing this book (I half expected my fingers to get black from flipping through the pages). The maps are slightly helpful, but really close to worthless because of the poor contrast and lack of color. So far, I have gone through every mission on my own without the strategy guide, only consulting it after I completed a mission. I found their "strategies" to really lack imagination and in some cases were completely unrealistic. Their main take on each mission is to do as little as you have to in order to win the mission and advance to the next. I find a lot more fun in exploring all the map area and wiping out any enemy that exists. Anyway, maybe the strategy guide for the expansion pack will be better. I recommend not bothering with this one. (StarCraft, though, is a superb game!)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good book that could have been better, November 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Starcraft : Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This is what it lacks (1) It's missing information on the unit table. (2) It has little to say on such matters as multiplayer (battle.net) startegies (4 pages) out of it's 246. (3) It also lacks good advice for map triggers, most of which I (and most people) learned about from basically testing and practicing. It's good if your starting off or want to beat the game legitly. I like the cooldown/range info on the units.