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Strategy Guide Collector’s Edition Giveaway – Epic Mickey

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Epic Mickey Collector's Edition Strategy GuideThanks to everyone who participated in the last strategy guide giveaway, where the Collector’s Editions of the Alan Wake and Tekken 5 strategy guides found new, loving homes. This week, I have another Collector’s Edition guide that needs a loving owner: Epic Mickey.

From Prima Games’ website, here are the features included with this Collector’s Edition in addition to the gorgeous hardcover shown to the right:

• Collector’s Edition includes the complete Disney Epic Mickey game guide!
• 40+ fully labeled world maps and extensive walkthroughs reveal the secrets behind every quest, puzzle, boss battle, and hidden area to help Mickey in his quest to save Wasteland!
• Exclusive developer content! Foreword written by the game’s creator, Warren Spector. Plus, Warren Spector answers questions about the game and its creation in our 16-page bonus section.
• Limited edition art: 8″ by 10″ reproduction cel of artwork inspired by the game! [Read more…]

Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide Giveaway! – Tekken 5 and Alan Wake

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Want free Collector’s Editions of strategy guides? Of course you do!

Tekken 5 Strategy GuideToday I’m starting some sort of a contest, and the prizes are Collector’s Editions of Strategy Guides for Tekken 5 and Alan Wake. The Tekken 5 Strategy Guide is still shrink-wrapped in all of its hardcover glory. The publishers/writers are Future Press, and this guide has NEVER been released stateside. If you wanted it before, you had to go through BradyGames, and they did not offer a Collector’s Edition of the guide.

Alan Wake Collector's Edition Strategy GuideThe Alan Wake strategy guide in this giveaway is also a Collector’s Edition from Prima Games. Sad to say, it no long has its box that contained both the Survival Guide and the Illuminated artbook as my mail carrier decided to rip the box and smash it quick handily. Somehow, though, the books themselves remained unscathed and in pristine condition. The Survival Guide is paperback, but the Illuminated artbook is hardcover. Basically, if you’re a hardcore fan of Alan Wake, you need these in your collection. [Read more…]

The Collector’s Edition Comparison: Dead Space 2 Strategy Guide

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Dead Space 2 Collector's Edition Strategy GuideOne [amazon-product text=”Dead Space 2 strategy guide” type=”text”]0307890090[/amazon-product] costs $19.99. The [amazon-product text=”Collectors Edition” type=”text”]0307891011[/amazon-product] costs $39.99. What justifies the $20 difference other than a deep love for the franchise? For die hard Dead Space fans (and I haven’t really met any other type of Dead Space fan), there is plenty.

Outside of the standard hard cover and additional artwork, there are 48 additional pages of extra Dead Space 2 content. It contains the expected art section with concept art, which is quite standard these days for CE strategy guides and some regular standard issue strategy guides. In addition, there is a chapter that details the creation of Isaac’s Live Action Suit along with interviews with its creators. An interview with Ian Milham, the Art Director for the Dead Space franchise, is also included and an art section dedicated to Christopher Shy’s artwork, who is the artist of the Dead Space graphic novels. As an added bonus, there is a letter from the Church of Unitology, which is only legible to the fans who have bothered learning their unique alphabet. [Read more…]

Unboxing the Epic Mickey Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide

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Epic Mickey had its huge, official splash at E3 this year, and the Disney Interactive booth was covered in artistic renderings from Epic Mickey. Since it was a Wii game, you knew it couldn’t look as artistically amazing as this, but they obviously wanted to tout the artisticness of the game, meaning the use of Mickey’s paintbrush. Prima Games captured this artistic feel with its Collector’s Edition covers (front and back) alone, and then while flipping through the guide, I found that they did the same with the content.

But enough words. On with the pictures! [Read more…]

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