Mass Effect 2 Collectors' Edition: Prima Official Game Guide

I ve played a few hours and when I looked back to this guide, I found this guide is ok but lacks depth in many ways.

I had the original Mass Effect 1 guide in hand, overall their styles are similar but I can guarantee that this guide is written in such a hurry, and far from being comprehensive about a massive game, so let me compare them to show you what this ME2 guide lacks.

Minuses:
- ME1 guide has way more tips and notes than this guide, these tips and notes are like: where to find extra items, how to open extra dialogue, the strategy of fighting enemies etc. This makes ME2 guide less new player friendly.
- ME1 guide always uses an extra little section to talk about morality choices for some important dialogues, what is the benefit of being Paragon or Renegade. Well, ME2 guide has no such thing.
- No mission summary(what you ll get in this mission, including codex, weapons, armors, etc) like the ME1 guide.
- There are many little nice touches from ME1 guide which are missing from the ME2 guide.

Pluses:
Well I guess I was being a little negative above. This guide does show its worth, especially with the Amazon's $16 pricetag.
+ The 3D Art section by the end of this book.
+ Hardcover collector's feel
+ a nice poster
+ decent walkthrough of missions

Close comments:
Overall I would rate this one 3 out of 5. If you would like to complete your collection of ME2 stuffs, then buy this guide. If you are looking for a comprehensive reference of Mass Effect 2, well go somewhere else. In my humble opinion, the Fallout 3 GOTY guide is still the best out there among all other guides, if you own Fallout 3 guide and expect to get something alike, you will be disappointed. I will update my review later if I found some other important things I would like to share with you

If you are a fan of Mass Effect 2 then this guide will make an excellent piece for your collection! Loaded with great info about the game and lots of neat things that will keep the fan of this series thumbing through the pages over and over again. Nothing but good things to say about the information on how to play the game and do the things in the game that will make it even more fun for you! Excellent guide!

I bought it because i love the N7 Logo.....The information is good too. I like the Planet Database a lot because it lets you know what elements can be found on each planet, and saves a lot of time.

This manual complements the collector's edition of the Mass Effect 2 perfectly. Even though I don't use this as much, I like the feel and construction of this manual. For me it is purely collectible.

I first bought this game and played about a third of the way through it. It was a little overwhelming with all of the planets to explore and side missions to do , so I bought this guide and it really helped. It explains every commrades powers, enemy profiles, and (most useful) a chart of all of the planets, their locations, and what minerals they contain. Instead of wasting hours searching the galaxy to get more platinum, I know exactly where to go.

Now about the "Collectors edition part" it's really not to amazing. Prima just throws a concept art and 3d models section at you plus a sneak preview of the comic Mass Effect Redemption. I do like the hard cover and it is a lot more sturdy than your usual game guide. If you own Mass Effect 2 and unless you are a veteran or well-informed/have a photographic memory this guide is for you.