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Eve Online: The Second Genesis
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Author: Eric Mylonas, 'Prima Temp, Prima Temp Authors
List Price: $19.99
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ISBN: 0761542434
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (13 May, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 462,377
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Rushed and mostly uninformative
An incredibly intricate and complex game such as Iceland-based CCP's "EVE: The Second Genesis" would almost certainly deserve to be accompanied by an appropriately informative strategy guide. Unfortunately, Prima has failed to accomplish this task. I will not go so far as to say that the book has NO value to an EVE player, but it certainly lacks the features of similar guides for other online games. The useful features that Prima's EVE guide DOES provide:- A brief description of each of the four primary empires (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar), their respective races and their schools. This information is just as easily obtained during character creation, however. - Stories and historical references that flesh out the setting of EVE. The rest is garbage: The Prima guide contains incorrect starship statistics (inaccurate even when the game "went gold"). The "maps" section is nothing but tiny, poor-resolution screenshot thumbnails that are of absolutely no practical use. There are timelines for the races, and it is obvious that they were simply photocopied from the game manual. The Prima guide features obvious editing errors: for instance, the pictures for the Amarr Bestower industrial ship are not included, instead the Caldari Blackbird cruiser's pictures are repeated there instead. In summary, the guide can do very little to help a beginning EVE player grasp the fundamentals of EVE more quickly. It can be of interest to EVE fans who want the additional immersion that comes from background history and stories.
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