Metal Gear Solid 3(r) Snake Eater(tm) Official Strategy Guide

by Doug Walsh and Dan Birlew

BradyGames' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Limited Edition Strategy Guide includes the following: Complete game coverage. A Signature Series strategy guide featuring a collectible cover, bonus... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0744004772
• ISBN13: 9780744004779
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Bradygames
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Guide for the Perfect Game

I purchased the Essential Collection, and, I must say, it is also excellent. This guide has a detailed walkthrough, bonus section, items and weapons listing. The boss strategy is also excellent, along with the food listing, and it completely explains how to cure every wound or sickness. I highly recommend it.

A Nice Metal Gear Solid Collector's Package

This strategy guide is a good companion for the game, but certainly targeted more at die hard fans, and collectors who will be more interested in the (included) Art of Metal Gear Solid concept art book. Allot of the notations in the artwork and sketches are in japanese and untranslated, but that's a fairly nit-picky complaint--overall, it's been pretty well done, and is very nice. In general, the guide has pretty much everything you would expect it to have, including maps, items lists and locations, Kerotan locations, enemy and boss stats, and of course, walkthroughs with strategy suggestions that are actually pretty sound most of the time. Presentation, and production values on this guide are very good, and the guide is very nice overall--in particular, the book folder, and the limited edition guide its self has a different cover than standard guide. What I didn't like however is how the items and enemies lists, and maps are sandwiched together in the front of the book--insuring allot of having to jump back and forth, and keep track of a bookmark. Also, it's quite pricey, and while used copies can be had for much more reasonable prices, collectors after one in good, or mint condition will still shell out more than what you'll pay for the standard guide (on average, 25-30 dollars). Overall though, this is a good guide--deciding whether or not you want it will depend quite heavily on how much of a Metal Gear Solid fan you are, and whether or not you bought the game as a permanent addition to your collection. But for fans, and particularly with MGS4: Guns of the Patriots (the final chapter in the franchise) due early next year, collector's like myself who have played, and collected every Metal Gear game, this guide is practically a must-buy item.

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maps are a bit confusing. Picture illistration are small and not very clear. the control pictures in the illistations are also hard to see.

Meat Gear Fan?

If you are a Metal Gear Solid fan you really want this. It is worth every cent.

Almost Perfect

Metal Gear Solid 3 is an incredible game no matter how you play it. But go through it without some help and you're bound to miss something. This guide is almost perfect in everyway possible. But there are some troubling things that keep this guide down a little. First of all, this tome is jampacked with tons of helpful tips. Everything you need in the opening pages to know about the game is there. The guide details on all the basics of CQC. From the basics to the advanced tactics. You'll be a master of CQC. The guide also spends a lot of time detailing everything about the food. The food section tells you if you can use it on enemies or not and how. They also tell you how it taste and whether its worth eating or not. The cure section tells you all you need to cure wounds and how to do it. The walkthrough is very well written. Each section has a detailed set of maps, the location of every guard and the location of every item. It's very well written too, with EXCELLENT boss strategies that help out really well. Each portion of the walkthrough is broken down by area rather than objective. This is great in the sense that it's more organized. The walkthrough is actually done really well with great tactics. This is easily one of the most well written walkthroughs I've ever read. The Easter Eggs and secrets are really cool. They go into detail on some of the better ones and talk about the bonuses and such. The secrets chapter is also done well. Alongside that, the Snake vs. Monkeys is also done really well. Each strategy to take on the monkeys helps you get excellent times and even first place assuming you take them in the recommended orders. Then there's the stuff after the meat of the game. The interviews are spectacular and help you learn more than anything about the production of the game and the MGS series. After that there's an excerpt from the Konami Comic Book of Metal Gear Solid. This is an incredible comic. It may actually make you want to by the series. But the guide isn't without a few faults. For one, the walkthrough is only written for Normal mode. There are areas where there are more guards and such and the guide doesn't talk about that. What's the difference between playing the game on Normal and Extreme? You'd be surprised how many hardcore MGS fans just jump to Hard Mode without ever touching the lower difficulty levels. The guide also mentions that there are "secret" frequencies to call but they never tell you what the frequency is! They mention that you have to interrogate a guard in order to get it. But they still don't detail what the frequency is or what it does... Then there's the biggy (and the reason five stars was an impossible feet), there are several easter eggs and secrets missing! They don't mention that you can get the EZ Gun on other difficulty levels nor do they mention anything of the infinity face paint. Not only that but they never mention how it is you're supposed to come across certain ranks. All