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 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Stratton, Bryan Stratton, Brad Anthony
Brand: gkworld
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 50046
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5
MPN: GKW33702
ISBN: 0761554084
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761554080
ASIN: 0761554084
Publication Date: November 20, 2007
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 Subpar publication for an above par franchise February 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to agree, this publication have typo errors, uneven sized fonts, unacceptable wrongly inserted words/phrases, missing sections etc.
The reason I bought this was because they bundled it together with the art book (which would cost more if bought separately).
Doing such sloppy work and knowing people will buy this because of the Mass Effect name, Prima should be ashamed of themselves (or is that a word not in their vocabulary)
 MUST OWN January 14, 2008
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
This game is highly customizable. You can customize your background, psychological profile, and most notably, your appearance.
Playing around with the various sliders in the appearance creation is so deep, you could spend hours messing around with that feature alone!
The gameplay is awesome. It uses a 3rd person perspective, and plays like a 3rd person shooter, HOWEVER, you must open up menus mid-battle to select abilities that you can aim towards one enemy or more (with your squad). It definitely require brain-power and strategy during firefights. All of your weapons and upgrades make a big difference in battle, so you must be aware of all your items, and what would be most useful with what enemy type.
The story is quite epic (and awesome). Your choices in dialog affect certain (not all) situations. There are 2 mission types: story, and side missions. The missions for the story are much longer, yet there are few of them, maybe 5. You can get through the main story in one weekend, but you need to do the side-missions to level up, and there's TONS of those.
The missions are varied, though the indoor environments are not. This isn't really a big deal because it's still tons of fun to play. My first playthrough clocked in at 39 hours, and that was with 99% completion of all missions.
If you own a 360, you like RPGs (NOT turn-based), and sci-fi interests you, then you MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST own this game.
Mass Effect XBox360 game January 7, 2008
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
I purchased this game for my son for christmas. When I asked him how he likes it his response is always, "IT"S AWESOME".
Pages missing January 5, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the multiple reviewers that call this a shoddy product. There are more than a few pages missing. For example in the table of contents, it skips straight to Appendix 3, without listing Appendices 1 and 2. However, multiple times in the text of the book references are made to these missing appendices.
Also, on a few occassions, the only mention at all of some of the numerous side missions, called assigments in the game, is a checklist at the beginning of each chapter; no explanation on how to better complete them is given.
This book is not all bad as it does give a rather extensive list of equipment available, as well as extensive talent matrices that will help you maximize your player's abilities. However, in comparison to some of Prima's other game guides, this one is subpar.
 The worst January 2, 2008
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
Incomplete, inaccurate, in short, the worst excuse for a game guide I've ever seen. How can such a great game, authorize such a crappy guide? Don't waste your money on this.
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