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Mass Effect 2 Collectors' Edition: Prima Official Game Guide |  | Author: Catherine Browne
Publisher: Prima Games
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 7211
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/Pstr C
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0307467082
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780307467089
ASIN: 0307467082
Publication Date: January 26, 2010
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Product Description
• Full walkthroughs for every mission.
• Exclusive maps created especially for this guide. Fully labeled to make sure you see it all!
• Every special assignment detailed so you won't take a wrong step.
• Power evolution trees to make unstoppable heroes.
• Complete planetary database to help you mine elements smarter not harder.
• Mass Effect: Redemption comic book preview!
Collectors' Edition Bonus Content:
• Art section to get a look at how the game design evolved!
• Exclusive conversations with the Mass Effect 2 team! Find out how it all comes together!
• Art poster included!
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 Very useful but vague in parts March 17, 2010
Charity (Mississippi Gulf Coast)
I first bought this game and played about a third of the way through it. It was a little overwhelming with all of the planets to explore and side missions to do , so I bought this guide and it really helped. It explains every commrades powers, enemy profiles, and (most useful) a chart of all of the planets, their locations, and what minerals they contain. Instead of wasting hours searching the galaxy to get more platinum, I know exactly where to go.
Now about the "Collectors edition part" it's really not to amazing. Prima just throws a concept art and 3d models section at you plus a sneak preview of the comic Mass Effect Redemption. I do like the hard cover and it is a lot more sturdy than your usual game guide. If you own Mass Effect 2 and unless you are a veteran or well-informed/have a photographic memory this guide is for you.
Has some good uses March 3, 2010
K. Cortez
The 1st guide for ME1 was pretty comprehensive and useful. This one..not so much. You dont really need a guide for this game. Everything is pretty easy to find. The only thing you'd probably wanna look up are all the extra missions and where to snag the rich minerals on scanning planets. If you admire art work- this has some. Ive even spotted some minor mistakes. Overall, not really useful.
 It would have been more helpful if I ordered blank paper... March 1, 2010
A. Kurth (Peoria, IL)
In a word - unhelpful. Useless also fits.
Mass Effect 2 is a HUGE game, and there are so many different decisions in the game to make that literally no single play through is the same. I bought this book because I thought it would help me play the game, I thought it would allow me to see the consequences of the choices I wanted to make before I made them. This is not the case. I thought that the book would tell me who the male and female Shepard could have relationships with, and how to make those flourish. This was not the case either. I thought it would tell me a lot of things that it just simply deliver on.
About 75% of the book is the "walkthrough", and about 90% of the walkthrough is the following - "to kill X, Y and Z people, use biotic powers and then finish them off with weapons." (I'm not kidding! It was amazing to see how many times they could reword that sentence) Which means that a huge percentage (I'm too lazy to do the actual math) of this book is just a waste of paper. The other 25% of the book is just general information about the game that you learn in the first few hours of gameplay anyway.
In short, I very much regret buying this strategy guide. Because it was neither Guide-e, nor Strategy-e. I don't recommend it.
Helpful, though I didn't use it much February 26, 2010
LprcnKing (Roanoke, VA)
The reason I didn't use it much is because I genuinely like the experience of searching around and finding things on my own. That having been said, I did reference it a dozen or so times to help find hidden planet missions...there are a lot of planets, and randomly searching all of them would have taken a loooong time. I also found the results of some decisions not how I wanted my character to develop, so I used the guide to show me which answer/choice was best for what I was going for...though that was only once or twice, as the moral choices are pretty obvious in most of the situations.
 Lacking in all the wrong areas February 26, 2010
Tony Wihlen (Stockholm, Sweden)
I am getting more and more disappointed with the quality of Prima's guides. This one feels rushed. It contains only a skeletal amount of information - none of which feels essential. The book looks nice and the extra content is welcome but the guide itself leaves me wanting a lot more.
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