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Wizardry 8 VIII: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets (Strategy Guide)

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This is definitely the kind of game a hintbook is useful for. There are a lot of puzzles. What do I do with that Alter? How do I open that strange lock? Sometimes, you have to come back much later in the game, and sometimes you can't progress until you figure it out - being able to know if I should worry about something now or later is worth the price of the book.

It also has Alchemy and Gadgetry formulas, which is nice if you don't enjoy experimenting with that sort of thing. The regular manual is exceptionally good on things like classes, skills, and spells, so those chapters don't add much.

The walkthrough isn't 100% accurate in the case of what items you may get, particularly out of chests where there's some randomness, but it does seem to cover all the plot points and major points of interest.

I haven't easily found any great online resources for this game, and there's definite potential to get stuck, so I'd say this book is useful.

I found the book real useful. The is a lot of "fluff" in the beginning of it: lists of spells, races, classes etc., but the second half of the book is good. It gives you lots of useful information about the various areas and monsters in the game, and of course maps, and I found this information to be accurate. The game is so non-linear that the walthrough is pretty much guaranteed to not match your game completely, but it still gives you what you need to get past the areas where you get stuck.

The guide is littered with typos,misinformation,and an incomplete bestiary.Mr Walker should be ashamed of himself for writing such a piece of trash.The internet has better strategy guides available for free.There was no cohesive order to the basic walkthrough as well.

Useless for everyone else. Misinformation, horrible character and race analysis, the only good thing for people is if they need a quick reference on a specific part of the game. This is the only thing that makes this guide just a little better than pointless.

The damage weapons do is inaccurate, he makes incorrect claims about the different classes. I'm sorry, a ninja is not a "lightweight samurai with Alchemy spells". You do NOT require a ranger in any party (In fact many people will tell you they suck). And he does very poor race to class analysis. A rawulf does NOT make a good monk.

In short, go on gamefaqs if you want good info...

The writers and publishers of this guide should be ashamed. There is nothing wihin its pages that can't be found out by simply playing the game through.
My primary reason for buying this guide was to find some of the things I missed before and discover new secrets. -Not only does this accursed guide NOT describe any of those things, it's actually completely in error in some of its descriptive points.
The only thing this guide does do is provide you with a very basic walkthrough; which is completely useless to anyone intelligent enough to play Wizardry 8.
So...I've plunked down my cash for this piece of trash, now what? -Guess it's time to go out and get myself a puppy...at least this guidebook will make a good chewtoy; it's nice and thick, chock full o' pictures with their descriptions-for some idiotic reason-placed on the previous page.