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Title: Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura by Beth Loubet, David Ladyman, Melissa Tyler, Prima Temp Authors ISBN: 0761528008 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: One of the best strategy/hint guide books I've run across.
Comment: Many strategy/guide books fall short of what their title intends, but not so with Arcanum.
This book is wonderfully detailed. Different chapters focus on different elements within the game including: character classes, technology, magick, monsters, maps, quests, weapons, armor, the lesser and greater gods, npc's, formulas and schematics and many other tidbits you never new were in the game until you read this book.
I was very impressed with the character creation sections and its very detailed explanations of customizations, auto-schemes, attributes and more.
The monster appendix is great, and identifies about 85% of creatures you will encounter with pictures and 100% with stats.
Weapons, armor, potions/elixirs, schematics/formulas are treated with the same detailed information and can really help you find/discover hard to locate parts or uses for objects that you will come across.
The chapter on Magick is also very detailed, much more so than the original manual and gets you excited about following that college of study within the game.
The maps are priceless, as they are pretty well laid out and complete. However, I did find a few minor errors that were mostly aesthetic. Namely, one of the maps the editors forgot to label (though the legend appears below the map...it corresponds to nothing), and another map is a bit blurry.
The walkthrough and quests are pretty complete from what I can tell and really aid in the hint department if you get stuck on a puzzle. But, I did think there were some obscure references to other quests that could have been explained better. It can be slightly confusing at times to follow the walkthroughs and quests for the page layout and cross-referencing is a bit odd. But, if you study it for a few minutes, you'll get it.
There are no color pics anywhere in the manual, the pics that do exist are in gray scale. Most pictures ties in directly to an object, character or map, but there are a few random pieces of steampunk art mixed in.
What keeps this book from 5 stars is the few errors I found that were probably an oversight from the editing process. Like I said a few blurry pics, a few missing labels, a strange layout in the walkthrough chapter, but otherwise a fantastic and 'very' detailed strategy book of any game I've seen in a while and well worth the cover price.
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