The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Collector's Edition Official Game Guide - Strategy Book for RPG Adventure & Fantasy Gaming Enthusiasts - Perfect for Beginners and Hardcore Players Alike

***Edit: After several hours with the guide, I can officially declare the Collector's Ed. Strategy Guide for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: One of the greatest books ever written.First off, the text, the pictures, everything, feels... stamped. You can FEEL each letter, in every sentence, the paper, feels... rough... real... natural. They're are several screenshots with every single side quest, what the surrounding area looks like, what the NPC you need to talk to looks like.And the interactive map? Don't get me started, it has every single solitary nook and cranny of every spot in Skyrim laid out.Oh what about the Giant poster map that comes in the back of the Guide Giovanni? Does it HAVE EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE POINT OF INTREST ON IT LIKE THE EXPLORER PERK IN FALLOUT? - YES!But what about the armor locations? Does it tell me where? Better yet, it tells you who/what/when/where/how/why and how much to acquire/forge every armor in the game.Let me put it this way, I will be doing a video tomorrow which will contain a proper look at the guide. It will be on my youtube channel GFWScarface.Table of contents is 4 pages long, the index is something like 20pgs long.If David Hodgson reads this, I am stupified at how much time and effort you took into putting this Tome together.I read that it took you and a team of appx. a dozen+ people OVER 2,000+ hours to make the collector's guide.Assuming you worked 8hrs a day, thats roughly 250 DAYS, give or take how many hours you worked on it per day.Did I mention the Holy Bible style Foot Long Ribbon page makers? And that there's two of them? And they are black?I HIGHLY RECOMMENED THAT ANYONE WHO BUYS THIS GUIDE ACQUIRE A PAIR OF GLOVES PREFERABLY MEDICAL/LATEX FOR THE COVER LEAVES FINGERPRINTS BADLY (you skin exfoliates oil naturally, no matter how many times you wash your hands it will come back, TRUST ME, I've wiped my guide down about 10x already, now I ONLY touch it when I have a pair of medical gloves on [you know like in the Emergency room?]}BUY THIS GUIDE!*Initial unboxing review:As of the past week and of this writing (11/13/11) this guide is no longer available for purchase from several online retailers including Amazon. I fournately pre-ordered mine back in July for I knew that a near 700 page guide was hard to make and with David Hodgson and the team at Prima spending over 2,000+ hours on the collector's guide, it was special.Now first thing anyone playing Skyrim should know: Explore.The main questline and all the side quests (ALOT OF SIDE QUESTS, with detail on them too) are in here, but also, my favorite part: Locations of all armor/weapons/collectibles and a online interactive map that is downloaded with a unique one time code.Now of course there is much more, and I haven't read every single page, but I will tell you this: the Skyrim Collector's Guide is by and large; The best strategy guide for an RPG (close tie with the Dark Souls guide) ever.The binding is very good, I have the Battlefield 3 guide, and it's about 330 pages (not even HALF the size of this guide) and the binding is below par, you can look and tell that if you laid it down, open on a page for too long it would begin to tear.Not so with this Skyrim Coll. guide. Plus the hardcover art is VERY nice.What more is there to say? If you can even FIND one of these guides (for less than $40 that is, anymore and they are price gouging, which any seller will since it is sold out everywhere) buy it, because my local gamestop, walmart and barnes and noble are all sold out and CANNOT get anymore in from the publisher (Prima) so it looks like we have ourselves a genuine coll. edition.