Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets (Paperback)

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Product Description

Fallout Tactics is the follow-up to Interplay's highly successful Fallout 2. A squad-based, tactical combat game, Fallout Tactics also features RPG (role-playing game) character development and a rich story line set in a post-apocalyptic world. Sybex's official guide provides comprehensive walkthroughs for all missions, detailed maps, and in-depth statistics and strategies for all weapons, characters, vehicles, and creatures.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1st edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782128882
• ISBN-13: 978-0782128888
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #376,423 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well layed out book, April 14, 2001

By	Minghis_Khan (USA) - See all my reviews

This book has many tables and lists of all the statistics in the Fallout Tactics universe. It also gives information on comabat, charactors (and charactor building), missions, enemies, perks, skills, MULTIPLAYER, and tips on how to win your way to victory. It was easy to understand, the good thing was that it didn't tell exactly what to do. This left the game open, not a complete walkthrough (you know, do this, do that... no fun!). The book really helps make the Fallout expirience ten times better. Buy this book and make the most out of your game.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Passable as a strategy guide..., June 25, 2007

By	Bailey Z. Rose (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a kid I always enjoyed reading the strategy guides to my favorite console games, like the Final Fantasy series. Usually these strategy guides had all the information on the actual gameplay/items/locations, plus added touches like 'bonus features' or 'secrets' and even tidbits of information about the game that owners might find interesting. The pages were in color and you could almost read the guides like a good magazine or even a book.

Not so with this guide. As soon as I got this guide in the mail, I realized I would be disappointed. The quality of the printing is low; small pages, black & white print on normal computer printer paper. There are no pictures of items & the descriptions of them are extremely brief and not really useful. The book covers the missions themselves in a brief fashion (a couple pages per mission) with a general outline of the objectives & strategies, with a couple fuzzy screenshots mixed in.

Nowhere is there specific vendor information, ANY information on random encounters or special encounters (which the book bluntly lies about on the back cover by claiming it does have this information), or a tips/tricks section -- of which there are plenty to discover in Fallout Tactics.

All in all this is a mediocre book and you really shouldn't buy this unless you are some kind of avid 'Fallout' merchandise collector. You are better off going online to look at a F.A.Q. or Walkthrough on the game; this book is cheaply made and only covers the most basic essentials of playing through the game.

1.0 out of 5 stars At this price??, February 17, 2004

By	Natalie Johnson (Redwood City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I sincerely hope no one would be crazy enough to buy the strategy guide at four times the price of the game. It is a good game, but you can figure out most of the stuff that is in the guide for yourself.