Customer Reviews
Excellent, but only 4-stars since it's for the XBox 360, not the PC - By: D'log, 10 Jun 2008 
*This review contains no plot spoilers*. Excellent, buy it! This is a suitably massive 288-page "telephone-directory" -sized guide to an equallly massive game. The book's in full-colour, & is vital if you want to avoid having to exit the game to Google for tips on how to proceed - & to possibly trip over major plot spoilers while doing so. Finding vital plot details online, simply because you couldn't find the C-Sec Academy for the first time or somesuch, is going to have you banging your head on the desk. Ouch. This books saves you from that horrible fate, & also means you won't have to exit the game to consult some digital fan-made guide on your hard-drive. Be warned that having a handy flippable book assumes the willpower to avoid flipping the pages to find out how the main story / your side-mission ends. Be warned, also, that this book refers to the XBox 360 version of the game, _not_ to the later & vastly-improved PC version of the game published in June 2008. While the plot & characters seem exactly the same in the PC version, the interface, control systems, mini-games, & keyboard/mouse controls are alll radicallly different & improved. Nor does the book refer to the free downloadable expansion mods (which means "Bring Down The Sky", at June 08) offered by BioWare. The book is, in effect, out-of-date - hence only four stars for this review. But even once you've finished the game's main plotline, you'll probably want to play this superb game through again at least once, with a different character / class / mission-choices / difficulty-settings - & so once again this book will be supremely useful for keeping your game flowing/immersive, since there's no way you'll remember everything from a game-world of this depth & breadth.
Best Value - By: Jose Alves Goncalves, 06 Feb 2008 
Extremly detailed & helpfull guide to this art piece - Mass Effect.
Almost eliminates any spoilers, as far as possible, that is.
Every detail on every mission, trully helps to understand the scope & realism of Mass Effect.
Great!
A worthwhile investment - By: Chris Carson, 01 Feb 2008 This game is so complex, especiallly for the uninitiated, that you reallly do need a guide. This book is the perfect antidote for alll the many questions that arise during the initial game play, when you're in desperate need of answers to the many questions that seem to spring up from nowhere. It'll also provide answers to questions you didn't even know you had. Invest in this book & you will feel much, much happier. It's certainly a worthwhile asset, especiallly if you're new to RPG's. This guide will set you on the right road, rather than stumbling about in the dark with sunglasses on, which is about alll the manual does for you.
Extremely enlightening and helpful - By: Sam Ovett, 05 Jan 2008 I bought this after I got the game for Christmas. I started playing, & as it occured to me that this game is massive, I constantly got lost & stuck in places.
I bought the guide & it is extremely helpful as it told me backstory on alll of the characters agve in depth maps & reallly hlped me to know the best places to level up & how to get side quests. (Listening Post Alpha & Theta are reallly god ones)
HELPFUL - By: S. Harris, 04 Jan 2008 The guide is quite big & it features maps & info on the side quests & the main story of coursr. You need a guide for this game? This is it.
