Customer Reviews

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft: The Official Strategy Guide

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If you are looking for a step-by-step and turn-by-turn guide to the game, this book is NOT it. Though the book is often helpful, there are times when you are left with no idea what to do. The authors either leave out critical information, or give ambiguous and/or erroneous directions.

I attribute these mistakes to poor descriptive writing skills, a lazy proof read, and/or lack of cash to fund the correction process.

However, the book does give you many puzzle solutions that you could not have found on your own. It also gives you a fair (as apposed to good) insight into what the game's authors intented for you to do. Consequently, my three star rating. You must decide for yourself whether your gain is worth the frustration caused by the author's mistakes.

My recommendation is that you check-out the game maker's on-line guide, and then decide whether you want to spend cash on this one.

..if it had just been researched a little more! Tomb Raider 3 is a tough game to beat, and this guide makes it a lot easier if it weren't for the simple mistakes this book makes. For instance at times it tells you that there is a certain number of secrets in a level, but then they forget to tell you the location of one of them, while it tells you the location of all the others! Also some of the pictures can be a little grainy, making it difficult to desipher the exact location of where Lara is. Other than that, its a good guide, but don't get it if you're struggling with Aldwych. They really screw that level up in the hint book.