Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

by Dimension Publishing

"Syphon Filter 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide" includes maps of every vast environment; weapons arsenal details; complex puzzle solutions; strategies for keeping Gabe and Lian ahead of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761527931
• ISBN13: 9780761527930
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Prima Games
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

A Secret agents best friend

When I purchased Syphon Filter 2 (One of the best PX1 games) I had no idea how much I would need this guide on my quest to save the world. This is a incredibly clear, amazingly detailed, absoloute must have guide that you will need to get through the game. The Screenshots are really crisp, the tips are top notch and the whole thing is really easy to understand. There really is no way to explain how good this is. On the downside, they do leave out some unmentioned bad guys in a lab escape level that will almost certianly kill you if you try to get a seret in that level. Go out and buy it now.The Good:EverythingThe bad:A few bad guys are not mentionedand the ugly:none

Flawed, but useful.

Having finished Syphon Filter 2 on my own (and not without difficulty) and gotten the book after the fact, I find the secrets revealed in this book wonderful, but some of the strategies questionable. For example: - At the rate the book recommends, you won't have enough crossbow bolts in the Aljir Prison Break-in level; - Use the .45 in the Gregorov level? It's slow, noisy, and not very accurate -- hardly the best for taking out the lights; - Chance is much more easily defeated than that long-winded strategy they describe -- simply manoeuvre by the chopper and you'll be fine; - The M-16 works much better against Morgan. Also, when you're stalling him, there's no reason you have to leave the first crate's cover at all. - There *must* have been another way other than the button sequence to open up the "Disc 1/2 Movies" secret -- I didn't have the sequence, but I had those movies opened up, and I don't even know how.That said, the last page of the book alone is worth the price. Since the developers of Syphon Filter 2 have put in a generous number of secrets but made the requirements for the secrets very obscure (aside from "Girlie Magazine" and "Dirty Laundry", obviously!), that list was invaluable and allowed me to open up many more Multiplayer Arenas, even though I'll probably never use them. And the walkthroughs, if I had needed them, are quite detailed, with lots of screenshots so that you can compare where you are and find the right place by matching game to photo.If only they'd also offered some cheats (invincibility or infinite ammo would be nice -- the thought of the "Hard Mode" of *this* ultrahard game shivers my skin). Still, well worth getting if you like Syphon Filter 2.

Good, but not the best.

This strategy guide had a lot of good qualities about it, but there could have been more. The information leaves out many things, but that can appeal to those of you who don't want too much to be given away. This book gave a very good low down on all of the weapons, the missions, and puzzles. It will appeal to many of you out there, but turn away others that look for minimal help from a strategy guide, but hey that's what a strategy guide is for! So for the price and the content this is the book to get!