Alan Wake: Official Survival Guide: Prima's Official Game Guide

It is rare that a guide book for a video game almost comes across as a valid novel but this book manages to do just that. Sticking with the theme of "writing from the game the author of the guide book has managed to fit every little detail into the book in a story format. It is an interesting way to get information across and is way more fun that staring at charts and maps. If you aren't in the mood to "read" you can just skip to the highlighted portions to find your collectibles and important information. I used this book during my three playthroughs on XBOX and I am glad to use it again now that I get to play Alan Wake on my PC.

Um livro muito bem detalhado cheio de segredos.

My original draft of this review apparently had too much pep for Amazon so I’ll be more boring lol: very fun book. The product image is a different guide so I was worried about ordering at first but it’s what I wanted, very excited about it. Little bit of damage but I was expecting that as it’s second-hand, nothing that makes it unreadable.

a great guide and also a brillant reference source for the game lore and all the hidden things you might miss

Alan Wake is a game of a writer and the forced development of a story, so I can understand why this guide was written in a narrative style, but it just doesn't work. I want a guide to be a reference, demonstrating clearly where all the goodies are, preferably on decent maps, allowing you to dip in and out whilst playing the game. Because of the format you have to read ahead for a few paragraphs to be able to highlight the collectables, then play. The maps are useless as there is no in game map you cannot reference your location against them, and because of the save format, if the map is wrong - and you didn't read ahead, you're screwed because you can't go back. A guide accentuates the game, this guide overrides the game - badly.