Starcraft (Value Series): Prima's Official Strategy Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bart Farkas, Prima Development
Publisher: Prima Games
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1913316
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0761528989
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
UPC: 086874528987
EAN: 9780761528982
ASIN: 0761528989
Publication Date: April 19, 2000
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StarCraft: Prima's Official Strategy Guide is the perfect reference for solo play. The guide provides detailed walk-throughs for each of the game's 30 levels, with clearly marked maps and screen shots to help illustrate important points and tactics. The book offers more than 50 pages of statistics on the various units available and an easy-to-follow list of general strategies. Statistical information about the game's units and buildings, a section dedicated to the StarCraft campaign editor, and a brief multiplayer primer for gameplay on Battle.net round out the guide. --Michael Ryan
Product Description
Complete stats for Terran, Protoss, and Zerg species
Tactics for optimal use of all units
Multiplayer strategies to devastate your opponents
Detailed maps for all 30 missions
Strategies for managing your resources and building your empire
Terran, Zerg, and Protoss tech trees
Advice on mastering the campaign editor
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Entirely worthless November 12, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Has the writer even PLAYED this game? June 17, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Basics Only August 7, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Basic information. Some helpful - some copies of the user manual. Good help on scenarios. No help on playing multi-player.
 Starcraft 1 strategy guide July 23, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is very helpful. especialy the cheats :D
Excellent for beginners as well as pros May 17, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
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