Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide

Dragon Age: Origins is a big game. It needs a big strategy guide. The Dragon Age: Origins Prima Strategy Guide is perfect for those who are either struggling with a certian area of the game, or are just dedicated fans of the franchise itself. The guide is informative in all areas, except it does seem to be missing several pages of moderately-important information. These mostly pertain to sidequests, romances, characters, and other important areas. However, the most important thing you must realize when reviewing a strategy guide is that all guides are rushed to print to coincide with the release of the game. The authors have limited time to complete such a rigorous and daunting task. Mike Searle, the guides author, managed to produce an informative guide in such a small amount of time that it resembles a guide which would've taken several months to complete. This guide is one of those few guides that should not only be used as a reference source during future playthroughs, but also as a learning guide for general gameplay and character development. After reading through the whole guide, it became apparant that Searle spent alot of time talking to the Dragon Age: Origins development team at Bioware, making sure he had all the right information and knowing every possible combination of choices, classes, and item management. Let me tell you right now... this guide has some of the most in-depth item lists I have ever seen. Lists for practically every signifanct item/weapon/spell is listed in the guide. And it's so much better than it sounds in this review. I would say the statistics for each classes is also worth mentioning. On a technical level, this guide is superb. However, I wish there would have been more information on the characters and the history of Fereldan. Another complaint that I have is a complaint that could almost be said about anything strategy guide, as there is no way of getting around it entirely. It's difficult to read the walkthrough without knowing exactly what's going to happen next. I, myself, never used the guide until my second playthrough as I find it far more enjoyable to figure out these things on my own. The walkthrough is by no means a disaster, it's actually well done and very informative. It needs work on spoiler placing though. Ah, I almost forgot... the guide's theme is absolutely stellar. It completely has a Dragon Age: Origins feel, with the pages offering a background that resembles ancient parchment with mildly visible burns adding to the realism of the feel. The way the information on the pages is laid out is also well done. I could always find what I needed after a a few seconds on each page.To review things a bit, I would have to say this is one of the better strategy guides out there, ecspecially on a technical level. The information on class specializations, items and weapons, spells and talents, and other important factors are laid out in gorgeous lists that are clear and easy to read. The guides theme is great: rom the artwork, the colors, the fonts, and the mildly dirty parchment background on each page, every detail helps capture the look and feel of Ferelden. The walkthrough is informative and understandable, though it has a few minor flaws like not informing you about certain important (though not critical) information pertaining to a quest or level's outcome, as well as revealing some mild spoilers too soon. But it's a guide, it's supposed to tell you what to do so you can't really be too picky about that. The guide could have offered alot more information on characters and the effect your choices have them. Information on romances is also lacking. The strongest feature I found in the guide was it's ability to appeal to not only the gamer stuck on a sidequest, but also to your average Dragon Age fan. You may not need to use the walkthrough, but the amount of information and lists pertaining to important items in the game is absolutely essential for getting the most out of the game. Ecspecially when your going through for a second or third run (or 28th lol), as it really helps you get the most out of your character on a technical level.Dragon Age: Origins Official Prima Strategy Guide has its flaws but they are flew, and if you look past these what you have is a stellar, informative, and valuable strategy guide, offering an in-depth approach to getting the most out of your time spent in the world of Dragon Age: Origins, hitting nearly every concievable area of character development and gameplay strategy varieties, while providing gamers with an above average help reference for those stuck on a quest, as well as those returning for an additonal playthrough. Also, this a must-have collectable item for even the most lightweight Dragon Age: Origins fan. After spending several hours reviewing the aspects of this guide, I rate it 8.9/10, or 9/10. Two thumbs up for Mike Searle as well.WALKTHROUGH: 8.5/10SIDEQUESTS: 8.5/10EXTRA CONTENT: 8/10CHARACTER OPTIMIZATION: 9.5/10ITEM/WEAPONS/CLASSES: 10/10GUIDE THEME: 9.5/10FERELDEN MYTHOLOGY: 7/10REFERANCE VALUE: 9/10COLLECTABLE: YESPURCAHSE: YESMEAN SCORE: 8.9/109/10

When I was looking at the Guide, and read some of the reviews. Like one I remember was "the maps are too small". They're not. This is a very well put together guide book that will definatly help you get through the game. The maps are extremely helpfull in finding where pesky little "run around collecting things" for quests are concerned. The side quests section is very helpfull as well, however some things that are left out can be found in the in-game "quest related" codex section. I however believe the best part of the guide is in the part that deals with Character creation and party management section. I got the guide shortly after I got the game, and after reading these parts quickly restarted my character. I fully recomend this Guide to anyone who is thinking about it, it will help you comeplete the game knowing that you didnt miss something.

The book is informative and a good guide to help with your character’s build of what is effective to you. And what to expect ahead in the storyline and what your major decisions will do if you chose a certain route for endgame. Overall I love it especially for little things that you want to know and don’t want to track it down online when you have a perfectly good book sitting next to you. Good book to have for the game. :)

Dragon Age Origins is a very complex game and there are a lot of paths you can take through the game world. This guide was an invaluable help to me in figuring out how to get through the game.The game is very decision oriented. Where should you go next? What quests should you do and in what order? What dialogue choices should you make? What ethical choices will you decide on? All of these things are a factor in the game and this guide helps you make the decisions that will move you forward to conquering it all.It walks you through the whole game so you can conquer it and it has maps and walk throughs of every area along with locations of secret items, chests, NPC's bosses and more. It also gives you strategies for conquering the bosses and tells you your options for dialogue choices.This is a good guide that will help you get successfully through a very complex game.

I don't know why people say that this guide doesn't help at all? Dragon Age in my opinion is the most disordered game I have ever play in my life. As other people say, and thanks god i take their advise, the guide do a great Job teaching you how to level your character depending on what you want to do, explain the items what are they for how to do every single thing in the game plus a description of every single quest in the game and the most important thing location of this quests, because the worst thing of Dragon age are side quests that you get almost in the beginning of the story and can't be completed till near the end but without the guide you just don't know that and spend valuable time trying to figuring out where that place is when in fact it will not appear till you get to certain point in the game I think That playing Dragon Age without this guide would be a waste of time and you wont enjoy the game at all if you ask me the game guide should come with the game.

Although I have used online walkthroughs for DA:O, I found the guide to be extremely helpful. Yes, it contains spoilers. Every paper walkthrough will. Every walkthrough will. That's what people use a walkthrough for-to find out where they need to be, or to get help with something, which requires written spoilers.However, I found it to be very useful. Well illustrated maps, well written character bios and more. With the help of this guide, I found that a character had a specific side-quest that I had no idea about-even after playing the game once through with no guide!

It was here very quickly and was in good condition.

Llevo ya más o menos medio juego completado y uso la guía constantemente. Muy completa y con mucha ayuda a la hora de aconsejar tácticas de combate y de nivelar los personajes.

Ich will hier nicht den Inhalt bewerten, sondern nur einen äußeren Eindruck vermitteln.Man muss schon sehr gut der englischen Sprache mächtig sein, um die speziellen Ausdrücke zu verstehen, oder man legt sich ein englisches Wörterbuch zurecht; sehr mühsam. Das Handbuch ist in üblicher Kataloggröße und die Papierqualität ist sehr dürftig und erinnert an Recyclingpapier. Der Preis dafür ist eine Unverschämtheit und vergleichbare Handbücher von Rollenspielen kosten einen Bruchteil dessen. Deshalb der Tipp, wer es unbedingt haben will: Surft mal zur offizellen Verkaufsseite. Dort ist das Handbuch für schlaffe 20,00 € als PDF zum download erhältlich. Leider nicht in Deutsch.

Produit de très bonne qualité.Son seul défaut est de ne pas être en français.

I have found this guide extremely helpful. It is chock full of beautiful pictures and detailed maps,info on quests, characters, best tactics, weapons,and skills for each character, and absolutely everything else you need to know! I am a beginner to RPGs so was feeling out of my depth before I got this guide,it is not an easy game, and there is so much you can miss without the guide.So if you are not an experienced gamer, I would recommend this book, and I am not being paid by the author, I promise!