Resident Evil Books

This book gives details to the inside thoughts of the character while being true to the game found on dreamcast and playstation 2...You can understand what the characters are thinking, and what their plans are.

Being a fan of comic book art, video games, and zombies, I figured this graphic novel would be a unique treat... but I have mixed feelings. The art in this book is very nice and interesting, especially in the action sequences. It remains faithful to the game, in that the characters randomly find weapons, ammunition, puzzle keys, and herbs... although this adds to the choppy storytelling. Overall, the story is bland and uninteresting, much of it being told through Claire's non-stop self exposition. If you're a huge fan of the game and comic book art, you will probably enjoy this graphic novel. But, if you are looking to be engaged in a great zombie story you should look elsewhere.

This book isnt helpful theres no higly deatailed maps its a mess and it dosent have much solutions lik it dosent help u out with soultions at all

Some of the best information in this book is the Live Selection tips. They tell you exactly what will happen and which would be a waste of time or not the best choice. I think this is a time saver. Also, it gives nice tips on what you should dump or take with you in certain situations so you're not running back and forth to save rooms wasting time.

Also good information on how to fight nemisis and where enemies are lurking so you're prepared when you go in rooms and around corners.

The problems I had was the maps which could read the room titles or anything other than jsut D22, D16 or U46. That's pretty confusing when you're on a timer or running from an enemy-- you could get lost and have too backtrack right into them.

It doesn't tell you exactly how to solve the puzzles, claiming they change every time the game is loaded. Okay, I buy that, but there were other things also that were unhelpful. For example, with the boss fight nemisis after the trolley accident, it says to keep throwing mine throwers at him to get him to drop the grenade launcher.

I played this scene AT LEAST 20 times in a row before I discovered that hitting him in the chest with mine throwers until empty, then hitting him with freeze rounds brought him to his knees. Basically, the book reminds you throughout to master the dodge--which I STILL can't do, and you will be okay. The fight with the grave digger is the same way. It's not about dodging, it's about
*speed*. As soon as you turn on the power to the ladder, get over to it and press X and it will ask you "do you want to climb up the ladder?" It's like at this point the games stops to ask the question--stopping the grave digger too.

You answer yes, and you go on up, you don't have to deal with the GD anymore because the game never stops in that capacity. I have learned that beating on the controller for the Dodge hasn't really helped me yet. However, this book isn't completly useless. It helped me enough that I could play comfortably without getting stuck or frustrated, and I was able to finish fine. If you can get it used, do it.

Hate to have to say this, but I've gotten better help in a game from the opposing pitcher. Not only did it not help, but it was hard to muddle through. Prima should hire good writers even if thy don't intend to put out good guides.

I have played through Resident Evil 3 about 40 times now. Itis one of my all time favorite games (along with R.E.2), but it wasn'tuntil I had beaten the game a few times when I got this. I boughtthis guide because I kept on dying against Nemesis and wanted help.Well, then I started finding secret items throughout the game, andpretty soon I became the unstoppable player to the point where Istarted to yell down at Nemesis even before we started to fight.

I,before this, never knew how to use red herbs, how to make gunpowder C,or the best weapon arrangements. He also went into detail of maps andscenarios that I may never get myself into. He clearly had allplayers in mind when writing this. I learned the secrets of theseries even after I had gone through this game before and itspredecessor about 25 times. This is the perfect aid for people new tothe series, new to this title, and for the hardcore veterans whothought that they had reached playing perfection (like me).

This guide was not very helpful to me at all. Almost no detail in the maps, didn't help out with puzzles (thats not too big but it could've explained how to get the solution), some screenshots in the wrong place and some misleading information.

First of all, the walkthrough is very dull. It'll tell you how to get to certain areas, but I found several screenshots in the wrong place, and the walkthrought moved very quickly. There wasn't enough detail to tell me what I'm running into. They don't tell you how enemy placements work, or what items could be replaced as.

The Quick-Decisions card was nice, but I could've gotten along without it. Also, the guide doesn't tell you what items nemesis drops. While it would tell me sometimes, something was always missing.

The puzzle solutions that they claim to be there, aren't really there. They hardly tell you how to get to a solution. For example at one point in the guide when your searching for a password it reads and I quote "Just look around for a while and bingo! (That's not the password)." The problem with this? What am I looking for? I don't know! It just tells me to look around. Every other guide I saw told me EXACTLY what I was looking for at that point in the game.

The maps are from the ingame so of course they have no level of detail in them, making the maps useless. The only thing this guide really did state to me were the secrets. However, it didn't cover too much about the rankings or the mini-game.

My Advice, VERSUS BOOKS and BradyGAMES made a guide to RE3 and they're much better than this. (The BradyGAMES guide even tells you what's in Jill's diary!) So you might want to looke away from Prima for this guide.

this book is a must if you own resident evil (1) on gamecube. full colour photos and easy to understand language, this guide is the best!!!!! recommend it to all re fans.

This guide REALLY isn't worth its price. The sequences of places to visit are irrelevant. The directions are poorly expressed (Example #1: when you read "Chris's LEFT", you must understand "the RIGHT of Chris, in his own point of view"; Example #2: even if 2 rooms (A & B) are separated by a corridor and a room (C), the author will give indications as if A and B were just directly connected). Furthermore, an effort could have been made on the maps (numbers OR precise names attributed to each in a legend). At last, instead of writing precisely what kind of enemies OR items one has to expect in each room, the author describes the situations enigmatically (I guess that someone who purchases a guidebook is accepting to GET spoilers; if not, I don't get the point!!!!): it doesn't preserve any suspense for me, but upsets me instead.

No doubt the author is way better than me for playing that game, but he's a really poor help for others: I've read far better FREE walkthroughs in the past, so I'm regretting my purchase of this book!

I have read other reviews on line about this guide and i don't understand how in the world is this confusing to someone as the people who wrote the book did included all there are to know about the game itself and all the tips and tricks you need to know to survive the horror and to unlock all the cool bonus...There only one thing,they didn't include any of the other cheats like the ultimate grenade ammo clone.Perharp they want us to pay a bit of sweat when play the game and still that not the reason to take away the 5 stars that it deserve.....Hi hi.

I have read other reviews on line about this guide and i don't understand how in the world is this confusing to someone as the people who wrote the book did included all there are to know about the game itself and all the tips and tricks you need to know to survive the horror and to unlock all the cool bonus...There only one thing,they didn't include any of the other cheats which i found out later ... like the ultimate grenade ammo clone.Perharp they want us to pay a bit of sweat when play the game and still that not the reason to take away the 5 stars that it deserve.....Hi hi.

while not nessecery to finish the game by any means, this guide is still very helpful, especially if you are trying to unlock different endings, or cheats.

It was good. Its worth a look. The art is decent and it adds more deph to the story of Resident Evil.

I think this book was one of the best books ive ever read. It is thrilling even though some of the sayings are pretty bad (not language but how they use them) but otherwise this book, you cant set down and its good becuz they have more to the series its not just one book then your done with it, you can keep reading them if you like them.

It was good but they skip to many parts. They really don't show the progression of the scenes. If you are a collector or like comics than you should get it. But if you want the full story than get the novels By S.D. Perry.

Now, I've got to say that I am a die hard fan of the Resident Evil series. I even bought a dreamcast system JUST to play the 4th installment of it. I import the rare stuff from Japan that I can barely afford! When I picked up the comic I was completely ashamed of what they did to it. It seems as if the side storys were just thrown in there because they were running out of time to hand the books into the publisher. The characters arn't drawn well at ALL, with the traditional well endowed women and macho men. And anyone who has ever played the games would know that this is NOT what these people look like! In book number three, I couldn't tell whether the woman in it was Jill or Claire. If you want Plot, this is not the comic series for you. It even bothers to include the pitiful BOOM! and SLASH! effects for your personal distaste. Come on, William Berkin goes crazy in a zoo? Danger Island? This is a major dihonour to the series. But, because it is resident evil, I'll give it a two. Go buy the novels, and if its the artwork of the comic atmosphere your looking for, don't bother, its not worth it. If you see it in a comic shop, go ahead and read it but don't waste your money on it.

Great adaptations of the Resident Evil games and even better, there are new stories based on all of my favorite characters. Great stories, amazing art. This was cool.

I loved the movie Resident Evil: Extinction than i know i'm going to love the book i tell you right now if this one is half as great as the rest of the Resident Evil books that i have than i know that i'm really going to enjoy the book.

Rondall Banks

They thought that they had killed of the T-virus with the nuking of Raccoon City, but they were wrong and now its is airborn and everywhere. Jill, Carlos and the mighty Alice Abernathy along with new ally Claire Redfildare the only forces that are left to take on both the Zombies and the evil Umbella Corportion, the people that unleased this plauge on the earth.
I have to say that I really liked "Resident Evil Extinction" by Keith DeCandido. I liked the fact that the writer took the time to retell the ending of the second Resident Evil movie, so reader could catch up with the storyline. I loved the action and can't wait for the see the movie.

Why 4 stars you ask when everyone else has scored it so low? I give this book a decent rating of 4 stars because the book answered all of the questions that I had after leaving the movie (which I enjoyed).

Okay, we get it, so the movies are not like the games. Give it a rest already. Seriously, why would I pay 10 bucks to go watch a movie that I already played? They added some cool easter eggs to the movies from the games (if you were paying attention) and the movies did what they had to do, expand the Resident Evil universe with new and creative characters and portray their experiences with the corrupt Umbrella corporation.

Back to the review, the book answered questions like what happened to Jill. Where's the little girl from Apocalypse (her name escapes me right now, regardless you'll be shocked at what happened!), where did Alice's powers come from and how did the virus escape and infect more cities (leading to the desert wasteland prominent in the movie) even after they destroyed the city and blamed everything on Jill, Carlos and S.T.A.R.S.?

Anyways, if you enjoyed the movie but like me left scratching your head wondering where's the rest of the story, this book will satisfy you.

- Dan.

If you'd like to learn how money helped ruin an amazing game series then get this book. Get the other two movie novels and then get all the movies. The fact remains that Resident Evil on the big screen is pure sh-it and any novelization of it follows suit. Go read the S.D Perry novels and play the games. And pray Extinction will be the last movie.

I loved this book! i dont know about everybody else but this is just what they needed. This books is going by how Resident Evil : Code Veronica X and Resident Evil 4 and 5 play along. Cause they are going to have the super zombies that run instead of walk. Its in a desert like area like in RE 5. This movie is just going to be the best out of all the 3 Resident Evil Movies.

Sure the writer did not go by the game, but its pretty damn close. You know how they add new characters all the time? well Alice is just one of the characters they brought out through the Movie. If you read the first novel, you will see that Alice did infact work for Umbrella and how she wants to stop them. This is like a new game that they just made into a movie. I mean they added Jill in the 2nd movie, Claire is in this one. In this movie Claire is looking for her brother. Sure the second movie was not as suspensful as the first movie and the games. If they would have made the movie like the games then it just would have been considered another game that you just cant control. If you notice, the games are most likely like a movie itself. They made Resident Evil: Apocalypse really action like type because it shows the outbreak of the virus and how people were reacting to it. its not like they were just going to sit around and wait to be killed like in the games. For a movie they need to find a stopping point to it. They made the Alice character to interact with the characters from the game to get the story just right for continuous movies to be made.

Resident Evil was a great movie. It was suspensful and it was just so awesome if you might say. They didnt like Romeros screenplay because it would just wind up like Dawn of the Dead. Sure it would have been great but to see more horror into the Resident Evil Trilogy but the action is what makes the movies alive. in the game you get bit just once and youre okay. in the movie, you get bit but there is an antivirus, you dont just get cured with a herb like in the game, if you dont get the antivirus you die simple as that. and if that happend there would be no more movies nothing.

So you see why they had to alter it and make a hero. Because while everything is going on in the game, you dont know if there is an Alice. There might be and we just dont know. So i think we should just lay back and enjoy the movies because they are awesome. and i wouldnt trade them for a copy cat version of the game any day. if i want it to be like the game i just might as well just play the game. But its good to have 2 points of view on the Raccoon City incident. The only bad part about this movie that i dont like, is that Jill is not going to be in it. thats it, other than that i am going to see this movie cause this movie is going to be the best. and if you read the book, youll see that there just might be another movie! SWEET SWEET VICTORY!

I purchased this book thinking it might be a decent book since I enjoyed the games and the Movie. However, this book isn't really a prequel as advertised. It barely starts ahead of the movie. The first 6 chapters are just build up to the movie beginning. Starting at chapter 7 the author goes basically scene by scene of the movie adding his own words (what he probably thinks they are thinking)to the thoughts of characters which could be based off the situation happening. Overall it wasn't terrifying at all and it wouldn't be considered a prequel since it didn't take place prior to the original movie events. THUMBS DOWN on this one!!!

This book better have all teh pages to it. It better have all the different peoples adventures to

this is the most detailed guide ever

THIS BOOK IS THE STRATEGY GUIDE TO RESIDENT EVIL 2 AND 3 FOR GAMECUBE. THIS WILL HELP YOU THROUGH WHEN YOU CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER...

A NOTE TO THE OTHER REVIEWER: DON'T WRITE ANYMORE REVIEWS!

The strategy guide is decent but it seems to lack a few things I would like to see. I would've like to see a listing of the enemies and what their names are. I still don't know what one of the creatures is called in RE3. This book really isn't neccessary for RE2, since that was a fairly straightforward game, but RE3 is a mess to get through, especially with the quick decisions that need to be made. This guide provides clear descriptions of how to get through areas, as well as providing screenshots. It even tries to account for much of the randomness in RE3, usually by saying "Depending on ... Nemesis may or may not be chasing you here". Its about as good of a guide as you can expect when the guides are combined.

Being a fan of comic book art, video games, and zombies, I figured this graphic novel would be a unique treat... but I have mixed feelings. The art in this book is very nice and interesting, especially in the action sequences. It remains faithful to the game, in that the characters randomly find weapons, ammunition, puzzle keys, and herbs... although this adds to the choppy storytelling. Overall, the story is bland and uninteresting, much of it being told through Claire's non-stop self exposition. If you're a huge fan of the game and comic book art, you will probably enjoy this graphic novel. But, if you are looking to be engaged in a great zombie story you should look elsewhere.

This boringly illustrated strategy guide is simply the worst Resident Evil guide available.

It was grea and the game was all timr great

Oi, everyone, if you're a collector like me, don't even piss on this strategy guide! I'm not tryin' to rip on the author, but come on! The damn thing doesn't even have the B games for either of the characters! If ya buy this thing, you're basically buyin' half a strategy guide--seriously. Look some place else, because this guide IS NOT where it's at.

Unofficial s.guides dont work, they have inadiquit and/or wrong information. Only get official s.guides trust me.

It's unafficial, most of the cheats don't work, and it's an over all disapointment!Take my word for , it's not that great!

Prima Games did well on their Syphon Filter, Pokemon Game Boy, and Silent Hill strategy guides as well as their Breath of Fire III guide. However, they bombed on this one. It stinks! It has a crappy-crappy $$#@!^%$ guide for the "B" scenarios and lots of it are off. The walkthrough's good, but everything else sucks. $##@!&^%

I felt that this strategy guide was great! It had great maps for all the areas, detailed item locations and descriptions, and even a breif though very helpful walkthrough for the B scenarios. I'm a die hard for anything with the Resident Evil name on it, and this strategy guide didn't dissapoint me. Anyone who says otherwise must need a complete-straight from the programmer strategy guide, because they can't be much of a player.

The walkthroughs in this book are very disapointing! The maps and puzzle answers were explained very poorly! I do not reccomend it to anyone!

This was the worst gaming book. It would help you with a little but not much. it says you get something in the near the begining but you get it near the end. the only thing it will help you with game is the maps. Do not buy it.