Sims 2 Box Set: Prima Official Game Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Prima Games
Brand: gkworld
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $14.50
You Save: $10.49 (42%)
New (18) Used (10) from $13.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 59192
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 3.2
MPN: GKW31974
ISBN: 0761557709
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761557708
ASIN: 0761557709
Publication Date: November 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20080906212818T
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Sims books included are: Sims 2, Sims 2 University, Sims 2 Nightlife, Sims 2 Open for Business, Sims 2 Pets, Sims 2 Seasons, and Sims 2 Bon Voyage.-Objects and Socials: Detailed stats for every object, social, and build mode upgrade.-Careers: Stats and tutorials for every career path in the Sims universe.-Packaging: With the new stylized box art and mass-market trim size, this box set is dressed to impress.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
Too hard to read August 24, 2008
I got this for Christmas from my Mom since she knows how much I love playing the game. I've never been into paying for the guides since I've already paid so much for the game, and you can look things up on the internet easy and free. But despite the tiny print and grayscale tones on cheap paper, I have to say I like having the guide when I play, plus sadly I find it to be an interesting read when I'm not playing.
Good content in a bad format April 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The content of the books is excellent - that is, if you can actually read the print. I refer to the guides quite often but only in short doses because it usually gives me a headache. Also, the pictures are pretty useless.
I would recommend getting the individual books, though most of them are out of print. I think you can get the individual book for Freetime since it was just released. Also, I think you can purchase digital versions of the books at Prima's website. I have bought other digital Prima Guides and they were much more readable than these were. The only problem is you either have to print them out if you want to refer to them while you are playing the game. (Or switch back and forth from the game to the guide, which is a pain.)
 Good price, pocketbooks April 7, 2008
I thought I was getting full-size color Prima Guides, instead these are black, white and gray Pocketbooks that are so small I have to read them in very good light during the day and even then it's kind of hard. The illustrations are crappy not only because of the lack of color, but the material of the pages reminds me of newspaper rather than what I'm usually used to from a Prima Guide. I was very disappointed when I received the package, to say the least.
 A must have April 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Theese are a must have for the serious to normal gamer. Full of helpful tips and information to get your Sims to show their full potential.
Save your money, search for info and game tips online! March 31, 2008
This cheap reproduction on newsprint in microscopic fonts was a very big disappointment. The guides for some games recently have an occasional section or two printed on the cheap (The FF XII guide by Brady Games comes to mind), resulting in poor readability for that section, but this takes the cake.
An entire set of guides reproduced so cheaply that legibility is poor at best, and unintelligible at worst.
Standard text within the guides is readable with a magnifying glass with good lighting. Text that appeared in the original publication within a shaded box for emphasis is less legible. Text that was itself a lighter shade appears to be nothing more than a pixelated mess since this black and white reproduction is of a low quality resolution.
Think very poor quality grainy newspaper print. With a tiny font. If you didn't need reading glasses before you tried to view these, you will afterwards.
Pictures that were originally in full color reproduced by this method are useless for their intended purpose. Some points in the guides are explained ONLY in pictures, which are now little better than gray misty blobs.
They could have used a better quality paper, or a better resolution, or color, or made the font larger/books thicker, or made the font slightly larger/books slightly larger. Actually, they could have tried any ONE of these, and made a more legible product, but they were horrifically cheap about it.
You'd think that someone in quality control, or management saw this thing before it went to market, and had the guts to say it was bad, pull it from production, but I guess not.
I wouldn't even get it for the occasional reference. If that's all you need out of a guide rather than cover-to-cover reading, I suggest searching the internet. It will be both cheaper and infinitely more legible. These books were a waste.
|
|
|
