Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Collector's Edition Strategy Guide

My last experience with Prima Games guide was Xenoblade Chronicles X which was pretty awful so I was hesitant to buy this one. However this one was quite good and restored some faith in Prima Games. Uncharted is pretty straightforward so the guide wasn't really necessary to complete the game but is very detailed with a ton of maps for each area as well as showing the various paths you can take. Also the text isn't just limited to direction but is littered with a bunch of fun tidbits or explanations on events.I used the guide mainly for collecting treasures I missed and it was extremely helpful in that regard. The main maps show what treasures are located in the area and each treasure has a small box with more detailed instructions on getting the treasure. A couple were worded confusingly but overall was clear.The quality of the book itself is very good. The colors are nice and the cover is very sturdy. The bonus coin is also very nice looking and is larger than I imagined.

I'm a huge fan of Collector's Edition guides and this one doesn't disappoint. With how amazing a game Uncharted 4 is, it was hard to not pick this up. There's a lot of detail included as far as maps and strategies go. I love treasure hunting in Uncharted games and it's a huge help to follow the guide to make sure I get everything.The free digital eguide comes in handy a lot too! I use both hardcover and eguide equally.Even if you're the type to think "bah, I could find all this information for free on the webz", I'd still recommend it because it's also great as an art book of sorts.The silver pirate coin was a great bonus gift as well. I pre-ordered the game at Best Buy and got the gold pirate coin. It's awesome having both colors of such swag for an awesome game.

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amazing book, nice for those who love collect this kind of book, ist very fat and wide, good illustration. And about the guide it's amazing if you want to do a quest is very easy to reed, have very good information and tips inside the book, and its will be a great help if you are in a place without internet. BTW the online guide its very good also, and make worthy the price of the guide if you don't want to lose too much time looking for a key word only with your eyes ( i mean ctrl+f : key word inside the guide and bang).

It's pretty hard to screw up an Uncharted guide. Most of the time they're fairly simple in nature and fairly easy to follow because the games aren't exactly complicated games in anyway. The last few guides I've gotten my hands on by Prima have been questionable in some way simply because a lot of them are concerned about helping you learn and understand the game... but not really mastering them. For some games this approach is not a good one for a strategy guide (say... Dark Souls III) but for other guides it can work just enough that it's actually okay. Uncharted falls into that category. The layout is fairly similar to Bradygames guide for "The Last of Us." It's actually a pretty good guide that will help you learn the game and with Uncharted that's really all you need.The guide begins, as most do, with the basics. And considering how many new and unique features Uncharted 4 introduces, it's a pretty good thing that the guide is willing to go into a lot of these basics, even noting how much some things have actually changed. As I said before, Uncharted isn't exactly a complicated game, but the guide does make sure to help those get acquainted to the systems and mechanics of Uncharted fairly well. If you're new to Uncharted then this is a good place to start. It does talk about some of the differences between difficulty settings but the guide is specifically written for those going through moderate difficulty. I'd be less bothered by this if the guide did not also note how extreme some of the differences between Moderate and the game's highest difficulty really are. We'll come back to this point. For now it's just safe to say the guide doesn't do a bad job introducing Uncharted.It's not long before we dive into the walkthrough and I actually think it's a fairly good one. Each area opens with maps and details. Although the prose sometimes waste time telling me what's going on in the story as opposed to just pressing forward, it doesn't do it too often. Previous Uncharted games have been a little sloppy with maps. The Bradygames guides had the maps drawn like treasure maps, making them difficult to use at times while Piggyback only opted to give you maps in combat situations. None of those guides were bad, per se, but the maps here make you wish that a guide had done them this way before. The maps here are absolutely gorgeous, with diagrams that show you were to go with certain points marked on the map and called out in the walkthrough. They are absolutely stunning. If there's a climbing or platforming section, there are arrows to show you where to go and what route to take. It makes it that you can use the guide as much or as little as possible. The walkthrough also points out where various treasures are. In combat and other scenarios it also points out where guns and weapons are. Another good thing about the guide is that it points out where and when you should've received a trophy. If you're the kind of person that likes to collect trophies this guide will help.Once we get beyond the walkthrough to the extras this is where the guide can hit a few snags. It points out everything you need to collect and when, but it doesn't spend a lot of time detailing the unlockables. This can be a bit annoying. In Piggyback's Uncharted 3 guide one of the things I appreciated was a small addendum that helped master some of the more troubling parts of the "Crushing" difficulty setting. Here it mentions differences but in some of the more challenging firefights or situations that are actually extremely different the guide doesn't mention anything. It's also not really a good sign that the game hardly mentions anything about the unlockables at all or other secrets. They're not called out or anything.There is almost nothing mentioned here about multiplayer. There are basics but they put no maps, no coverage or anything of the sort. It's largely ignored. You'll learn the basics of the multiplayer, sure, but you won't see anything about the multiplayer maps or anything like that. If anything this isn't actually that big of a deal, but the effort in and of itself would've been appreciated. Previous guides made sure to point out things like where potential hotzones were or how to navigate the terrain of multiplayer maps. They were nothing special either, but having maps and pointing out certain things on those maps for those hoping to improve their multiplayer game isn't actually a bad thing in and of itself.All that said, though, the Uncharted 4 guide is actually not bad at all. The walkthrough alone and how detailed it is and how much information there is in it more than makes up for any shortcomings the strategy guide may have otherwise. It's a great walkthrough. And even though it isn't written for higher difficulty settings, at least basic umbrella differences between difficulty levels are called out. So if you do need help with Uncharted 4's main story it's a really good guide to utilize.

Perfect book.Gives you a nice summary and description of the chapters as we go long. Gives you the location of every treasures and answers to solving hints and getting trophies.Its basically a very informative and fun cheatbook !Also comes a really cool coin thats amazing in quality, i carry it around with me and play around when im bored.

A highly detailed and thorough game guide, with this one you'll find every collectible that is in the game with ease. I could care less for the multiplayer portion of the game, so I wasn't really that much disappointed by the shallow coverage of the multiplayer part of the game at all. What really disappointed me was how the collectible coin was attached to the book, it was glued on the inside of the book, right on the last page, removing it, literally destroyed the pretty map that it was glued to...Shame about that, but overall a very good game guide, a must have for any collector

Nathan Drake is back for one final adventure - sad to say - but it was by far the best of the series. Great action, superb graphics (PS 4 and the story line is very satisfying. I will definitely play this again - on a harder setting though. I played on "normal" and while there were quite a few places I had much trouble completing the challenge, I feel like I should try again on a harder setting and see just how much harder it is. I highly recommend this game.