Actually if that's the way you feel you should have gone with the Gold package. You get all the old games, the FULL strat guide, a hat and a handful of other stuff for slightly more than the anemic boxed "Collector's Edition".
I've just started the chapter "Entanglement" and I have to say that the strat guide has been mildly useful, but nothing like essential. It's EXTREMELY detailed (over 300 pages), but is just a walkthrough. I like a strat guide that offers some extra information, maybe some art, and generally some cool extra stuff. The only extras here are ONE page of "G-man" sightings (and they they didn't even get them all) and ONE page of cheats. No backstory discussion, no developer insight, no nothing. There's not even much art - there are two or three images of Gordon used OVER and OVER and OVER, sometimes cropped, sometimes not. Any body get the Brady Games guide to Final-Fantasy X-2? Now that was a guide! Complete with a coffee table art book and full pages of all the dress-speheres. In general I like Brady guides better than Prima anyway. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:139219 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
