Starcraft : Prima's Official Strategy Guide | List Price: $19.99
Discount Price: $0.64
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Binding: Paperback
Excellent for beginners as well as pros [Posted on 2003-05-17]
What can I say, I could have never enjoyed this game without this book, don't hesitate buy it if you can, and if its still available, if you want to play this game intelligently and victoriously
Starcraft 1 strategy guide [Posted on 2003-07-23]
It is very helpful. especialy the cheats :D
Basics Only [Posted on 2003-08-07]
Basic information. Some helpful - some copies of the user manual. Good help on scenarios. No help on playing multi-player.
Has the writer even PLAYED this game? [Posted on 2006-06-17]
Everything in this book is wrong, except for the unit stats, but even then some of them are outdated (but we won't hold that against prima). However, being how this was published 2 years after the original release of SC, you'd think that it would have some better multiplayer strategies than "always pay attention" and "a good defense is a good offense." The single player strategies consist of "build cannons at choke" and "build big army." Multiplayer strategy is a joke. If you really want to get better, go download some pro replays; this guide will just make your game worse.
Entirely worthless [Posted on 2006-11-12]
It's slim - like a pamphlet - and infuriatingly replaces the manual in the Starcraft Battle Chest. The guide to the single player missions is reasonable, but they tend to be simplistic in any case (make a base or two, build a lot of defense, and crank out The Unstoppable Army so you can sweep the map in one massive wave.)
The unit descriptions and tactical advice are worth a buck or two at most; you'd be better off just fooling around with the units on your own to see what they do. Passages range from accurate but non-informative to flat out wrong - for example, the author claims one powerful spell that protects your units from all ranged attacks only works against air-to-ground fire. Captions often have nothing to do with their picture, which has nothing to do with the page.
There is a very brief section on multiplayer strategies, and it's the worst in the book. In describing the new layer of depth multiplayer adds, he offers this possibility (from memory):
"For example, if you say to your opponent "I hope your flank is protected", what should he think? Are you really about to attack his flank? This is the kind of thing that brings multiplayer to a different level from single player."
Nothing more needs to be said.
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