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Fallout 3 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Prima Games
Category: Book
Buy New: $57.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 30342
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/Pstr C
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0761559973
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761559979
ASIN: 0761559973
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
Exclusive Collector's Edition content! Get a view behind the scenes into the creation of the most anticipated game of the year!
A gigantic tour of the Capital Wasteland with over 100 maps showing nearly every area in the game.
Every major ammo and health cache, Bobblehead, Skill Book, Unique Weapon, Weapon Schematic, Mini Nuke, and more!
Expert tactical advice on utilizing V.A.T.S. combat techniques, how best to allocate your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities, plus which skills to pick as your adventure progresses.
Examples for creating different types of characters, from heavy-weapon specialists to stealthy lockpicking pros.
Multiple tactics and tips for every Main, Miscellaneous, and Freeform quest, including exhaustive notes on every single activity you can attempt, anywhere in the game.
Flowcharts and every major Karmic choice detail exactly where your decisions lead. Plus: All you need to know about completing all endings.
Giant map poster to guide you through the Wasteland!
Rugged Hardcover edition for extra survivability.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
A beautiful guide December 30, 2008
Not only is this guide aesthetically pleasing, it's also very helpful. Whether you're trying to be a good guy, or evil SOB... you'll get exactly what you want from this guide.
The Wasteland Survival Guide December 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this guide off Amazon and I have to say that Prima did an excellent job. It has info for all of the main quests and all of the side quests. One part of the guide that may be a bit difficult to navigate is the Tour of the Wasteland section where it lists every possible locale you can visit including info even on the freeform quests. It's very, very exhaustive.
The book itself is very well made The paper is not glossy. I can't really describe the feel of it. It's rougher than normal paper. It almost reminds me of the spelling paper I used in elementary school. I really like the paper. The guide is definitely built to last. The binding is very secure.
I foundd myself reading through it here and there even if I wasn't necessarily using it as a 'guide.' This is one of the more well made guides out there.
A very comprehensive companion to the game December 22, 2008
This is most likely the mostly in-depth and comprehensive strategy guide I have used (I only use them for RPGs). The authors did a most excellent job. It can even be daunting at first, as opening it up to any random page and viewing it's contents is like doing the same with a textbook, so much information. But once you learn how the book's laid out, it's not as overwhelming. The amount of valuable info held within is definitely worth the money, especially at Amazon's price. (I honestly don't know what the collector's edition provides other than it's nicer hardcover. I researched it before buying it, and that may be the only benefit.)
 Huge, just like the game. December 20, 2008
This is a comprehensive guide and very expansive. It shows you every single thing to earn, kill, complete, and find in the game. And for those who havent played the game yet, thats well over 120 hours worth of play time if you want to try and complete everything in the game in one playthrough.
However, ive had to bookmark sections to flip back and forth between because in reality you could get a headache because of the mass amount of things to do, and if you dont do them right you'll miss out on things. I honestly have gotten a headache or two because there really is so much to do. Make sure you read ahead in things before you atempt to head out in the wasteland or do new things. You will find many times that while doing one quest you must complete another in order to make the one you wanted to do originally have better rewards, or get more quests and people etc.
I think the only downfall of this guide is that things arent laid out in an exactly orderly fashion quest wise. You will have to have sections bookmarked to flip between them (as I stated above)
A word of advice to the new player: Create many saves, because you might get a glitch (which happens a bit too often) or do something to ruin the Autosave you just passed through. Save before you complete a quest, or speak to a new person, or take a new path...because that could exclude certain new objectives and items if you do them wrongly or say the wrong thing in speaking.
One of the best manuals I've seen published... December 20, 2008
I'm mixed on these types of books to begin with. With RPG's these books are cheats that take away the surprise and fun of doing it for yourself. However, one usually encounters that mission or quest with some hidden (or just stup-i-fying) wrinkle that calls for a little assistance. If used that way, I think these books are great. Moreover, once you do the mission it's IS fun to look at the book as an "after action report" to see what you've missed or how things could have been done different.
Fine.
As for the book itself, I bought it as a 2-for-1 promotion with the collectors edition (an amazon special) and in the process paid less than full price (a little more than 1/2 I think); making it well worth it.
Rare for a game guide to be hard-cover, this one is, a nice touch. Morevoer, it's generaly well written, covers everything and it's a humorous read. These guys had fun playing the game and making the guide. There is the occasional typo or spelling mistake (this is not for the NY Times Bestseller list) but it's usually rare and minor.
It's worth the price of admission.
In my opinion, if you can get it as a bundle, don't let it pass you by.
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