Tomb Raider (Game Boy): Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Mark Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: June 6, 2000

Lara Croft's next big adventure is on Nintendo's Game Boy Color! The game will feature all the elements that make the Tomb Raider series a success, including five huge levels! Lara is off to South America in search of the Nightmare Stone, an ancient Aztec crystal with incredible powers beyond those of any mortal being. If you were always amazed at the way Lara Croft packed all of that, er, energy into shorts and a tank top, wait until you see what she can do in your pocket!

Find everything you need to complete Lara's new Game Boy quest in Tomb Raider for Game Boy Color: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. The guide includes:

Step-by-step navigation of all 14 adventurous levels
Button combos to help execute Lara's moves with skillful precision
Full descriptions for all weapons, keys, and items in Lara's backpack
Locations of all pickups, power-ups, and secrets

Editorial Reviews

Review

Game Boy meets girl.

From the Back Cover

Game Boy meets girl.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (June 6, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761528598
• ISBN-13: 978-0761528593
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,798,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Informative? Yes. Helpful? No!, June 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

The Prima guides for all of the previous Tomb Raider games have been spot on and extremely helpful for those times you when your in a tight spot and don't know how to get out of it. The guide for AOD however is plain misleading. I chucked mine aside and decided to wing it on my own. Apparently the guide was written way before the game was finished, so some things just don't add up, somethings don't even appear in the game and some things are completely missing. I hate to say this but don't waste your money. If you're really stuck, you're much better off hitting the various tomb raider BB's on the web. Much more helpful!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Watch out, this may cost you serious frustration..., September 16, 2003

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musiqstar87 "Erick" (Huntington WV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

A week after Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness came out, i bought my PS2. Along with the console and the game i bought Prima's *official* Strategy Guide. Upon starting to play, the first few levels are simple so there really isn't a use for the book until a level like Louivre Storm Drains and some of the levels following it. The guide helped me easily through some tough levels, but others like Louivre Galleries, i had serious problems. In the galleries, the guide instructed me to shimmy over four trip wires (2 of which were moving), i later came to find out this was IMPOSSIBLE. You instead must do a running jump over the wires from one of the display cases. Another problem surfaced in the Hall Of Seasons level. In that level i spent an hour trying to figure out why the door in the basement wouldn't open, i came to find out that you had to place 4 crystals by the entrance door (this wasn't mentioned in the guide). The guide caused me hours of frustration, making gameplay very uncomfortable. However, i'm giving this "official" guide 2 stars because it helped me through some levels in the game. The reason, i later found out, for these glitches in the book, were because Prima made this guide for the Sep. 02 release of AoD, they never updated it after the delays. This guide, in my opinion, isn't worth the almost twenty bucks i paid for it, the only thing i got out of this guide that was enjoyable was the full poster inside.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Straight Forward, July 28, 2000

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Fiona Frost "frosty2050" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tomb Raider (Game Boy): Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This is a great guidbook, but not if you want to backtrack. It also uses the words 'the ledge' a lot, and 'the ladder,' so you can never be quite sure WHICH ledge or WHICH ladder.