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But it is worth having when you play. I used the guide to help me when I got stuck. This game is unique and different. If you like creepy, strange, single player, first person shooters you will find this game fun. The only complaint I have is the print is small.
Bioshock is a videogame masterpiece. This strategy guide is complete and will help you if you are lost or want to know the best way to survive in Rapture.
Second most annoying is when you die while firing a weapon and you just keep on firing and wasting ammo against the chamber door when you come back to life. There is an option to turn the chambers off with a download, but I never did. Being able to hack the automatic defenses around town to use against the bad guys adds some interesting strategy against the infinite stream of evildoers. The surprise 3/4 of the way through was great, though the ensuing battle is on autopilot. I could not bring myself to play it a second time to get the few achievements I'd missed. It is a fun game, though the final boss is the easiest part of the game. Even changing the difficulty does not do more than affect how fast you kill and are killed. That was the most annoying part for me, to be sent back to a rez chamber (thankful that damage on enemies persists when you die) only to find an enemy right outside the chamber who esnds you right back in.
It wasn't helpful.I suggest using the internet as the guide, and not this book, which annoyingly tries to be cryptic and give as few answers as possible to the paying reader. It provides some good advice, such as the 5 best Plasmids and how one should spend the money at the Circus of Values. If you want the answers (such as the combinations to locks) then try the internet.It even does not give a good summary of the storyline. For example, I have tried to obtain the keys to the Chomper's Dental for many hours. Unfortunately, it seems they focused on how NOT to give answers as much as possible.
This book merely says to look for it using newfound plasmid (Telekinesis) in the Dandy's Dental. I have found the Wiki's version of the story to be much more comprehensive.The book provides good illustration of the game. It is full of hints, but hardly any answers. This is the offcial guide to one of the greatest video games in years. If you want to pay money for a book to get hints and clues to the answers, then this book does its job.
Other than that, its clues are very skimpy and even stingy.
I was mostly put off by Bradygames' lack of quality assurance with this one (the cover is horrible). I've decreased what would've been a 3 star review to 2 because Bradygames' QA people are slipping. I agree with a different reviewer in that you really don't need this book. I only looked at it while playing this game once and what I was looking for wasn't even there (don't remember what it was now or I would say). My cover is glued on backwards, upsidedown AND offcenter - the copy I was sent should've never made it off the production line.Bradygames and Prima both normally do a descent job with their guides and its not that this one isn't OK but you really don't need it at all in the the game.
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