Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: Official Strategy Guide |
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Author:
Neil Richards
By Pan Books
Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.932
EAN: 9780330354479
ISBN: 0330354477
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1998-06-05
Publisher: Pan Books
Studio: Pan Books |
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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel
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Weak hint section, interesting background material, 2000-08-06
This guide to the adventure game "Starship Titanic" wants to do three things at once. First, it gives more background to the Starship and the characters in the game. Second, there are stories from behind the scenes, telling how the game came to be. Interesting stuff, but unfortunately all this leave too little room for what I consider the most important part: The hint section.The cover promises "subtle hints" and "complete solutions". This made me expect gradually more obvious hints for each problem, each hint on a separate line to avoid reading too far. In the book, each overall problem has its own section, but the section itself is one long description of how to solve the problem. This makes it VERY easy to read too far. I recommend reading the hint section one line at a time, with the rest of the page covered by a piece of paper. The hints are in themselves good enough, but not always subtle enough. And the prose flows TOO WELL: You read on where you should pause and return to the game! At least the most outright spoilers are kept in a separate section of the book. I enjoyed reading about Douglas Adams' visions of the game and I found the sections on the creation of the game very interesting. If the guide had been just that I would have rated it 4 stars (but to tell the truth, I would probably not have bought it in the first place for just that - I am a Douglas Adams fan, but there are limits). All in all: The book contains quite a bit of interesting material, but personally I would have preferred a plain hint book of better quality.
Great Cheat Fun!, 1999-09-25
You don't really need this book to solve the game (I made it before I ever set eyes on the book...) but it's great fun to read. Much background information and of course loads of hints and tips and spoilers...
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