I owned the original Prima Guide for City of Heroes. Given the generally bad reputation it had, I hoped that the errors made in it would be corrected. Jack Emmert posted several times about his working on these guides, so I had hoped his efforts would result in more relevant and complete information being included. I was sorely disappointed.
First, the guides are similar in format, and each contain the following sections: Introduction, Basics, Archetypes, Group Dynamics, Zones Villains, PvP, and Bases. The Hero guide also has some appendices, one of which is a complete badge listing.
The Introduction and Basics could be supplanted by a quick glance at the "introduction" guides found in the Players Guide section of the forums. The Archtype listing includes the ATs, their powers, and some statistics not included in the manual, but a great deal of information is still missing. Power numbers such as damage dealt by a power, or a percentage of resistance or defense provided are just missing, as are critical facts like range. Other numbers, like endurance cost, are included. As a whole, woefully incomplete and not much of an improvement over the manual.
Likewise, the Zone listings are thorough but inferior. The Vidiotmaps site provides better maps, which can also be installed in a package directly into the game to replace the default maps.
The PvP guides generally only cover the "objectives" of the PvP zones, and don't offer any insightful or useful advice on actually competing in PvP. Even some of the critical basics, like a discussion of perception vs stealth, is completely absent. The base building section is a useful primer, but totally lacks numbers, lists, or the effect of various defenses you can buy, which makes it useless for anyone other than a complete novice.
All in all, the information in the guide falls into two categories: That which you can get from reading the manual; and incomplete or useless information that is inferior to what you can get from the Player Guides section of the forums, or from the statistics included with one of the popular "Hero Planner" pieces of software.
Absolutely not worth buying, regardless of your experience level or enthusiasm for the game.
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他の国からのトップレビュー
M Wallace
Extremely Disappointing
2006年5月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
S. Thurston
not worth it
2007年9月19日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
