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BioShock Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature)

Author: Bradygames
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 49495

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5

ISBN: 0744009154
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780744009156
ASIN: 0744009154

Publication Date: August 15, 2007
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Condition: Brand New - Never Used - No Torn or Missing Pages

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

Can You Survive a Madman’s Utopia?

You are a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia that has been torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces, and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters.

Comprehensive Walkthrough

Horror is waiting around every corner; use this guide to survive unscathed. Learn how to fend off the Splicers, bring down the Big Daddies, and overcome the lunatics that populate the underwater metropolis of Rapture.

Illustrated Maps

Discover the best route to each of your objectives and learn the location of every safe, secret, and enhancement that this strange world holds.

Evolve Today

Uncover the secret powers of plasmids and unlock your genetic potential. With these genetic mutations you can shock, freeze, and incinerate enemies, use telekinesis to move objects, and enrage foes to make them fight against each other.

U-Invent

Use our guide to create valuable upgrades to all of your weapons.

Exclusive Foldout

An exclusive poster features art from the game and a full list of Xbox 360 achievements on the reverse.

Platform: Xbox 360 and PC

Genre: Shooter

This product is available for sale worldwide.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

A great strategy guide for a great game July 9, 2008
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.

3 out of 5 stars

Pretty Good April 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

It is a fun game, though the final boss is the easiest part of the game. I could not bring myself to play it a second time to get the few achievements I'd missed. Even changing the difficulty does not do more than affect how fast you kill and are killed. The surprise 3/4 of the way through was great, though the ensuing battle is on autopilot. 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. 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. 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.

4 out of 5 stars

BioShocked March 15, 2008
This game is great. I've been playing it for days on end. The ability to save, or if you get killed go back to a preset condition or start over at a preset game level makes getting killed not so hard to take. I've finished the game once and started all over again. It's addictive.

2 out of 5 stars

Focuses on how NOT to give answers February 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is the offcial guide to one of the greatest video games in years. Unfortunately, it seems they focused on how NOT to give answers as much as possible. It is full of hints, but hardly any answers. If you want to pay money for a book to get hints and clues to the answers, then this book does its job. 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. I have found the Wiki's version of the story to be much more comprehensive.

The book provides good illustration of the game. It provides some good advice, such as the 5 best Plasmids and how one should spend the money at the Circus of Values. Other than that, its clues are very skimpy and even stingy. For example, I have tried to obtain the keys to the Chomper's Dental for many hours. This book merely says to look for it using newfound plasmid (Telekinesis) in the Dandy's Dental. 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.

2 out of 5 stars

Not Needed November 28, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful

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). I've decreased what would've been a 3 star review to 2 because Bradygames' QA people are slipping. 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 ... I was mostly put off by Bradygames' lack of quality assurance with this one (the cover is horrible!)