Homeworld: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

By Rick Barba

After a destructive war, the survivors of Homeworld were relocated to a galactic Siberia. Your goal is to build and manage a traveling society and protect it from peril during its journey back to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761515763
• ISBN13: 9780761515760
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Prima Games
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Ohio reviewer: Try actually reading the book next time

Just a note to the reviewer from Ohio who finds the book worthless compared to the online guide at CNET which has "the best advice I've found."The CNET guide with all that good advice is composed of excerpts from the Prima strategy guide -- word for word. In other words, they're both *exactly the same*. Same author. Same words.How could you not know this unless you didn't actually read the strategy guide? Yes, it's always smart and ethical to read books before you trash them.The strategy guide is loaded with hundreds of insider tips directly from the Relic development and testing teams, none of which appear in the manual.

West Virginia Should Get Off His Pedestal

I have to politely argue "Reader from West Virginia's" point. I found the guide to be extremely helpful and integral in helping me progress through the continuing levels of the Homeworld game. It must be a burden to be so perfect as the reader from West Virginia that he found nothing useful in this book. Every chapter and paragraph helped this first time real time strategy (RTS) player in enjoying his experience in this genre. Yes, the game would seem like common sense to experienced RTS veterans. To me, I needed this book or would have otherwise walked away from the game without every finishing it. Not being raised in West Virginia I'm not as smart.The book provides "strategies" and no cheats. It won't give you the victories, you have to earn them still. How it does this is by educating the reader on how things work in the fleet's food chain so to speak. An example would be the asteroid fields. The book recommends a particular formation to use that is more effective than others. It also gives you some tips as where to place your capital ships while proceeding through the field. Things that don't readily jump out to the novice. The mission accomplishment is still up to you. You can also read the book cover to cover and not worry about any spoilers as to the games plot line.A very highly recommended book by this reader.

Best Strategy Guide For The Best Game

Prima has done it again and made the best strategy guide. And the the best strategy guide is for the best game Homeworld. If you have Homeworld get this guide.