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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die Paperback – 5 Sep 2010

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  • Paperback: 960 pages
  • Publisher: Cassell; 01 edition (5 Sept. 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844036812
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844036813
  • Product Dimensions: 16.1 x 5.5 x 21 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
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"[This book] contains contributions by a handful of my favorite writers, so even though I haven't yet got a galley-glimpse of the finished product, I can just about guarantee it's going to be a good one. The book's already up for pre-order at Amazon, and, should you make your way chronologically through its list, probably will indeed just about last you all of your remaining years." BoingBoing.net
"Compiled by an international team of critics, "1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die" is a collection of chronologically-ordered games from the 70s to 2010."  Kotaku.com

"[This book] contains contributions by a handful of my favorite writers, so even though I haven't yet got a galley-glimpse of the finished product, I can just about guarantee it's going to be a good one. The book's already up for pre-order at Amazon, and, should you make your way chronologically through its list, probably will indeed just about last you all of your remaining years." BoingBoing.net
"Compiled by an international team of critics, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a collection of chronologically-ordered games from the 70s to 2010." Kotaku.com

-[This book] contains contributions by a handful of my favorite writers, so even though I haven't yet got a galley-glimpse of the finished product, I can just about guarantee it's going to be a good one. The book's already up for pre-order at Amazon, and, should you make your way chronologically through its list, probably will indeed just about last you all of your remaining years.- BoingBoing.net
-Compiled by an international team of critics, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a collection of chronologically-ordered games from the 70s to 2010.- Kotaku.com --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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The 1001 series has sold over 350,000 copies in the UK to date. Sales of video games have risen from GBP1.18bn in 1999 to GBP4.03bn in 2008. Source: GFK Chart In the UK, 37% of the population aged between 16 and 49 describe themselves as "active gamers" on a console, hand-held or PC.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Paul Smith on 11 May 2017
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A great ready. very informative and full of great pictures. well worth it.
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4.0 out of 5 starsNice Book
By Mr Ogden on 6 Oct. 2012
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When you compose a book like this you're going to recieve some backlash from joe public, it's innevitable. Yes some of my favourite games are missing, yes i'm slightly disappointed, no i'm certainly not angry. If you grew up during those heady days of SNES vs Mega-Drive (Genesis) madness then this will be right up your alley, trust me when I say they didn't miss much. One thing I do have to agree with is the author/publisher seems to think that the people reading this have never played ANY of these games so must feel obligated to fill you in on every games backstory, instead of giving you important info like game mechanics, level designs etc. It's only a slight niggle though and should'nt detract from your enjoyment of this trip down memory lane (early 70's - 2010) And they included Demons Souls!
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2.0 out of 5 starsOnly for those who do not have the first edition
By Aj Merrington on 19 Jun. 2015
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The rating is focused on the one aspect that I wrestled with before buying it: What if I have the previous edition? Well, on that basis I'd suggest that it's not a savvy purchase. Yes, it does add some of the classics from the tail end of the last gen (such as Journey, Bioshock Infinity and Dishonoured), and a couple of the more laughable inclusions first time around (Army of Two: The 40th Day anyone?!) have been excised. But the lack of any update to the intro - which even retains the first's reference to a 'future edition of the book' - smacks of utter laziness. And despite the public admission that ICO had been accidentally missed off the initial list, it's STILL not included, which is embarrassing. If this is your first time buying this book, then it's a fine compendium, with many of the strengths and weaknesses noted by other reviewers. But it can only be hoped that the next iteration, if there is one, is spaced a healthy distance apart, and edited with a semblance of care.
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5.0 out of 5 starsChristmas Present
By Andrew E on 2 Jan. 2014
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Seemed well accepted by my son for whom I bought it. He spent time going through it and talking about games he'd already played and seemed pleased, so good!
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3.0 out of 5 starsA Shoe-Size Short of its Potential
By Jon Porter on 2 Nov. 2010
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Those looking for a successor to Edge Magazine's fantastic "100 Best Games to Play Today" from their 200th issue will be sorely disappointed. Whilst you're certainly getting your money's worth with a book so large so as to require two firm hands on it at all times, its quality is all over the place, and many of is inclusions - questionable.

Though many of the game descriptions take up a good half page, the prose of those that I've delved into is a tad wooden and spends far too much time outlining each game's plot and mechanics rather than justifying its inclusion in the book. You're left with an encyclopedia of sorts, one that'll certainly tell you what to expect when you pop Advanced Warfighter into your 360, but one that doesn't spend enough time telling you why you'd want to do it in the first place.

Tony Mott edits a magazine widely regarded to be the best in the business, but the decision to take a wide range of contributors from other magazines leads to varying degrees of quality within the book. The lack of a single voice is harmful in other ways too, with some passages that undermine the inclusion of other games. There's a slight sense here that the editorial team struggled to find 1001 quality inclusions, but then I sincerely doubt I'd be able to do much better.

Anyone looking for an encyclopedia of some of the greatest games ever made could do a lot worse than this book. Having said that, if you can find a back issue of Edge 200, its superior inclusions and more eloquent brevity might be a better place to start.
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2.0 out of 5 starsSeverly misguided attemt...
By Orusaka on 21 Oct. 2010
Format: Paperback
I'll just get straight to the point. The editors of the book have failed completely in the balancing of their selection of games for the book.

I'll give some examples:

1. According to the book there are 10 games worth playing from the entire 70's, yet there are 106 games from 2009. Yes, I'm not kidding, 106. In fact, the 70's, 80's and 90's make up half the book, with he 00's taking up the second half. It's almost unbelievable how skewed the book is in this sense. The entries for the last few years read more as a list of every game published in that year, rather than a list of recommendations. Even games that were met with mixed reviews at best are included. I smell kickbacks. In fact I kinda hope they were involved, because someone settling on this list without them is just too sad to be true.

2. Less importantly, but still an issue is a sometimes extreme bias towards certain genres. Most noticeably, there is an over-abundance of SCHMUPS and great lack of insight into the development of the graphic adventure genre. For some reason they've listed every single LucasArts adventure game, while listing nearly none of the competition, leaving a severely unbalanced picture. After all, this is supposed to be 1001 games you must play before you die, right? Not the 1001 best games every made. Because if it's the latter, then I guess the book is fine, but for the former I find it completely fails to give an appropriate overview of the development of the genres.

Before you buy it, at least keep in mind what kind of book you're getting. It reads more like an advertisement for recent games than any serious attempt to collate a list of games you must or should play. I had it on pre order from the day I heard about it, and I can tell you without dropping a beat, I would not have bought it had I know the direction they've taken the book in, which is a great shame because 1001 albums, books and movies are all great book. This one, however, is not.
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