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I still recommend this for levelling up your gaming experience. The guide generally is OK, giving me where the hidden gold and collectibles are. This was delivered to me 3 days before the expected date of arrival so that's where my 4 stars go. I must agree to other reviewers that it has a cheap feel on the pages.
Felt very light in weight when I took it out of the shipping box. Pretty much the only truly useful information is the maps. Pretty standard game guide. Sparse tips on tactics.
The other times they aren't. The problem with Prima guides is it seems to be a crap shoot. This is set up with short paragraphs scattered on a page to follow along the way the writers played the game. This is the only guide out there and it does have some info to help complete the game and find the collectables and such in the single player. One example is I started a tough battle and then read I should have picked up the mortar designator two objectives previously which was not mentioned in the explanation that was two pages previously.This guide is similar to the layout of the Kameo guide. This book was a disappointment and is very incomplete.Multiplayer problems:As stated earlier, no top views of the maps and a very limited look into the multiplayer area.
The specialist weapons have little info on how to use them correctly, especially the Snipers goggles witch I am still having problems with.Single player:The majority of this book is centered on the single player campaign. Half of the time the guides are well laid out and helpful. Most of the info is from the videos included in the "Gold Edition" of the game.Stats:The weapon descriptions are the general rant with little info in how they perform in the game. Which also blew. It also included the point values for actions in the multiplayer. The numbers do not include the handling stats and they do not have a table for easy comparison to help you choose what weapon is best.
This largest disappointment with this is if you try to read and go you will miss some vital info.
The pictures are really small and the paper is cheap. They give you 1 by 1 inch pictures of a house or base and what can you do with it.
For two of the maps they had so little to say they fit both on one page. There is not a reference point to match it to on a map.
I agree with other review. They actually covered each map on just one page.
I looked at this in the store and decided to skip it. Feels really cheap and quickly put together.
I wanted to pick this up to get a good review of the multiplayer maps but there aren't any layouts like in the RB6 or the COD4 guide.
There are top-down diagrams for single player maps, but none for multiplayer maps.After the in-depth treatment Prima gave to Shadowrun, I thought they would do the same for BF:BC. Over 100 pages are dedicated to the single player campaign. Only 10 pages about Multiplayer. After purchasing and loving the Shadowrun Prima guide, I was expecting the same great guide for Battlefield: Bad Company. They did not. The pages are not nice and glossy paperstock. However, I was very disappointed. They are thinner and feel more like a newspaper feels.There is way too much focus on single player.
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