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Dragon Age: Origins: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) |  | Author: Mike Searle
Publisher: Prima Games
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 312
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0761561420
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761561422
ASIN: 0761561420
Publication Date: November 3, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
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Essentials: Over 300 pages packed with every quest, NPC, monster, and item across the world of Ferelden!
• Classes: Complete ascension guides with level-by-level tips on how to maximize a warrior, mage, or rogue class!
• Maps: Over 100 jam-packed maps displaying every critical piece of information!
• Walkthrough: Detailed walkthroughs to master all quests, puzzles, and pivotal story choices!
• Equipment: Full equipment lists to gear out your PCs!
• Bestiary: Comprehensive bestiary with everything from arcane horrors to werewolves!
• Combat: Expert tactics to conquer the intricacies of combat!
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 Save your money because this guide is terrible November 23, 2009
Patrick B. Nell (Minneapolis, MN)
This is not a very good guide for Dragon Ages. Its more of a written narrative of the storyline full of spoilers. Most of what is in it can be discovered easily without it and the majority of its information is rehashing whats already written in the players journal. The first third is nothing but an item lists and character backgrounds. The maps in the book are very small and hard to read. It is either too hard to find information or what is there is so vague its not helpful. Its only strong point is that it does assist you with how to get your team members to like you. Save you money and look elsewhere for quality help in playing this game.
 Great help in battling the dragon of complexity November 19, 2009
Will Kalif
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Loaded with errors November 18, 2009
Magic Pink
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Suffice to say, the book is not only unneccesary, it's flat out incorrect in most spots. Avoid it.
Lazy and Weak November 16, 2009
J Smith (Charleston, SC United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Absolutely pitiful excuse for a Prima guide. Lazy graphic design - every single page uses the exact same template / layout, often at the expense of the information. In fact, that's my biggest problem with this guide - information is extremely hard to find and parse. The second biggest problem is that the information provided (assuming you can find it) is extremely vague. For example, most of the information provided for side-quests are exactly what's in the quest log's description. No instructions how to complete them, no map locations, and worst of all - no information on the consequences of your actions. There are a lot "moral" choices in Dragon Age, and this guide gives you NO information on how your choices affect the game. You could make the arguement that this leaves the game more "fun", but there's very little point in buying a guide that gives you no information. VERY dissapointed, especially at a [...] price point.
Worst Guide I have seen in a long time. Save your money November 16, 2009
Edward Block (Van Nuys, Ca United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this guide as a fan of the game hoping to get some great info and a complete story for DA.. WOW was I wrong. Let me start off by saving this guide is 95% worthless. Many of the puzzles are wrong to start, and i find myself writing in the book to correct there errors (which are many). Half of the quests are so hard to find in this book or are not listed at all. This guide really doesn't tell you Ok this is where this quest is. I just tells you about the quest like the game does. HELLO I am cheating and want to know where it is and how to do it because I am stuck. You are really better off looking up what you cant find online instead of buying this piece of trash. I really am ashamed of whoever created this guide for Prima as they should be fired!
Ease to use - 2 out of 10
Quality of the paper - 0 out of 10 (many pages are folded or warped, and your toilet paper is thicker)
Being helpful as a guide should - 1 out of 10 (more like unhelpful and more confusing then you already are)
Over all 0 out of 5
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