Customer Reviews for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
Model: 9780307890
SKU: 4306035
UPC: 050694487434
SynopsisThousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader, an ongoing war between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire kept the galaxy divided. Choose to be a Jedi or Sith and start your journey down the path toward the light or dark side of the Force. Develop meaningful relationships with other characters and they'll join you as you take part in epic lightsaber duels, cantina shootouts, massive multiplayer battles and more. Navigate your own ship through the galaxy and take part in thrilling space combat. Grab this Game Guide and ensure that the Force is with you. Prima Games' official strategy guide to Star Wars: The Old Republic offers tips, advice and more in 312 fact-filled pages. Learn the location of every Datacron in the game to build your stats. Hundreds of detailed, custom-made maps are brimming with critical information to help you find every taxi, bind point, vendor and more. Study tactical readouts for enemy locations, from Korriban's deserts to Ilum's icy plains, so you don't come across any surprises during your epic journey. Study planetary survival guides for all eight classes, such as Jedi Consular, Jedi Knight, Smuggler, Trooper, Bounty Hunter, Imperial Agent, Sith Inquisitor and Sith Warrior, and view comprehensive planet atlases for Alderaan, Coruscant, Hoth, Tatooine and more. Not only is this guide saturated with useful information — this beautiful paperback Explorer's Guide features loads of exclusive concept art and makes a true collector's item for any Star Wars fan.
Average Customer Rating:
2.8
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(4 Reviews) 4
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Customer Reviews for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
Review 1 for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
Glorified Map Book
Customer Rating
3.0
Value for Price
3.0
Accuracy
4.0
Detail
2.0
Helpfulness
2.0
What's great about it: Pretty maps
What's not so great: Unless you need directions, not very helpful
I usually enjoy Prima's game guides and was hopeful for this one. Unfortunately it falls way short. The maps and nice and fairly detailed, with every world. Unfortunately they don't go into much detail other than that. More details such as vendor's names, or locations of quest givers or even mapping out where Republic and Imperial questing areas are so you can see where potential PVP areas could be. Things like Balmorra being phased between the 2 factions would be nice to know too.
I was expecting more of a guide as well, not just an atlas. They do give some details about the classes but nothing truly insightful. You could get as much from the Holonet.
Overall it's a great book for collector's but if you're thinking about buying it to help you with the game...skip it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 2 for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
A pretty good guide...
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
3.0
Accuracy
5.0
Detail
4.0
Helpfulness
4.0
What's great about it: Great maps.
What's not so great: Not much else...
I bought this guide primarily to help me with any hidden or bonus quests that I might accidentally skip, neglect to do or find. However, it is not entirely helpful with questing at all other than to help you pinpoint where questgivers and other NPCs are located.
It has proven most useful as an atlas and also provides very accurate locations of the Datacrons, so that was a welcome find.
Overall, this is a good guide, but it does not really go as in depth as I was hoping, particularly with the quests or professions. As I said, consider it more of an atlas if anything. Hope this review helps you...
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 3 for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
Just use google.
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: Xianshei
on 02/01/2012
Value for Price
2.0
Accuracy
2.0
Detail
2.0
Helpfulness
1.0
I purchased this because it sounded like it would have detailed information on codex/datacron locations, however besides a mark on the map indicating the coordinates of the location of datacrons it's not very helpful at all. Save your money and just use google or youtube to find more accurate information, unless you want to have a fairly pricey swtor coffee table book.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 4 for Prima Games Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide (Game Guide)
good maps
Customer Rating
3.0
Value for Price
2.0
Accuracy
5.0
Detail
3.0
Helpfulness
2.0
What's great about it: Its very accurate
What's not so great: very basic info
You can get the same information on the internet. Its very accurate but I had hoped to have more insight to classes and extra side information. If you like to have a physical map with all venders its worth it, if you buy it with the game there is a discount.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+4points
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