Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

David Jon Winding (Author), Greg Off (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 17, 2000

Thorough, step-by-step walkthroughs for all 21 Missions
A complete listing of all weapons
3-D maps of each level
Winning strategies for the two-player game
All secrets uncovered

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Are you ready to teach Sony's Syphon Filter 2 a lesson? Then Prima's Official Strategy Guide: Syphon Filter 2 is the book to get you outfitted with the right gear, weaponry, and strategy as you take on your secret-agent mission.

Beginning with an understanding of the changing mission objective and parameter systems, and working through the control system and various targeting modes, this book gives the reader a firm grasp on the requirements for winning this spectacular game. The "Weapons and Gadgets" section includes complete descriptions of each weapon including pros and cons where applicable.

But it is in the "Walkthrough" section that this book really shines. Each walk-through starts with a review of the mission briefing and a complete list of all mission objectives and parameters. Also listed are the secrets found on that level. What follows are perhaps the most comprehensive walk-throughs ever published. Detailed maps and an incredible number of screenshots explain every puzzle, checkpoint, and choice during the game with both visual cues and accompanying text. Where and when required, weapons are suggested and strategies are discussed and dissected.

The book ends with a brief description on two-player modes and strategies and includes a few cheats as well as an explanation of how to unlock different two-player arenas and characters by finding secrets scattered throughout the game. Prima Publishing has done a thorough job unlocking the mysteries and providing the know-how needed to attain mastery of Syphon Filter 2. --Robert D. Gately

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (March 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761527931
• ISBN-13: 978-0761527930
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,266,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Secret agents best friend, March 13, 2002

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Ian (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

When I purchased Syphon Filter 2 (One of the best PX1 games) I had no idea how much I would need this guide on my quest to save the world. This is a incredibly clear, amazingly detailed, absoloute must have guide that you will need to get through the game. The Screenshots are really crisp, the tips are top notch and the whole thing is really easy to understand. There really is no way to explain how good this is. On the downside, they do leave out some unmentioned bad guys in a lab escape level that will almost certianly kill you if you try to get a seret in that level. Go out and buy it now.

The Good:
Everything

The bad:
A few bad guys are not mentioned

and the ugly:
none

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, but useful., April 4, 2000

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Having finished Syphon Filter 2 on my own (and not without difficulty) and gotten the book after the fact, I find the secrets revealed in this book wonderful, but some of the strategies questionable. For example: - At the rate the book recommends, you won't have enough crossbow bolts in the Aljir Prison Break-in level; - Use the .45 in the Gregorov level? It's slow, noisy, and not very accurate -- hardly the best for taking out the lights; - Chance is much more easily defeated than that long-winded strategy they describe -- simply manoeuvre by the chopper and you'll be fine; - The M-16 works much better against Morgan. Also, when you're stalling him, there's no reason you have to leave the first crate's cover at all. - There *must* have been another way other than the button sequence to open up the "Disc 1/2 Movies" secret -- I didn't have the sequence, but I had those movies opened up, and I don't even know how.

That said, the last page of the book alone is worth the price. Since the developers of Syphon Filter 2 have put in a generous number of secrets but made the requirements for the secrets very obscure (aside from "Girlie Magazine" and "Dirty Laundry", obviously!), that list was invaluable and allowed me to open up many more Multiplayer Arenas, even though I'll probably never use them. And the walkthroughs, if I had needed them, are quite detailed, with lots of screenshots so that you can compare where you are and find the right place by matching game to photo.

If only they'd also offered some cheats (invincibility or infinite ammo would be nice -- the thought of the "Hard Mode" of *this* ultrahard game shivers my skin). Still, well worth getting if you like Syphon Filter 2.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not the best., March 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This strategy guide had a lot of good qualities about it, but there could have been more. The information leaves out many things, but that can appeal to those of you who don't want too much to be given away. This book gave a very good low down on all of the weapons, the missions, and puzzles. It will appeal to many of you out there, but turn away others that look for minimal help from a strategy guide, but hey that's what a strategy guide is for! So for the price and the content this is the book to get!