Info on the books

[Xrenity]

DarkRaven from www.halflife-2.nl mailed Doug Lombardi about the upcoming books, I've translated the article for you guys

Book info directly from Valve
Because Half-Life 2 is shipping next week, I thought I should ask if there was some more information on the upcoming books. That's why I mailed Doug Lombardi, here is my mail:

Hello,

I'm Geert "Dark Raven" Huberts and I run the Half-Life and Half-Life 2 fan site Frontline Message Board (http://www.f-m-b.org/) and also help out at HalfLife-2.nl, Half-Life Gaming.com and HL2Files.com. I'm mailing to you with a question about the available books about and for Half-Life 2 (The Prima Strategy Guide, Raising the Bar and the Mod Makers Guide). I know that the Strategy guide comes with the Steam Gold version of Half-Life 2, and I also know that the Collector's Edition comes with a book. My question is which book? Several sites have posted that it's a sample version of the Strategy Guide, others post it's the full version and again other sites have posted a small description which could indicate either the Guide or Raising the Bar. Is it possible to give a indication as to which book will be shipped with the Collector's Edition?

Having preordered both the Gold version and the Collector's Edition (Is it true that the CE will be available from 2 December in Europe?) I was wondering when the merchandising of the Gold version will be shipped. This is because I'm planning to put online a review of all the books that will be available and I would love to start with the Strategy Guide and then move on to the two other books, which are also already ordered. Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Dark Raven.

Founder/Owner of F-M-B.org (http://www.f-m-b.org/)
Co-Admin at HL2Files.com (http://www.hl2files.com/)
Newsposter/Article writer at HalfLife-2.nl (http://www.halflife-2.nl/)
Newsposter at Half-Life Gaming.com (http://www.hlgaming.com/)

This is what Doug replied:

Hi,

The strategy guide and Raising the Bar are due to arrive in stores by early next week.

The Steam Gold offer includes the full strategy guide, and the merchandise included with that offer is shipping now to those who have placed their orders.

The retail Collector's Edition contains a 112-page sampler publication that contains a few of the chapters from the strategy guide and one chapter from Raising the Bar.

Cheers

So the books will be available next week. The gold version gets the strategy guide and the Collector's Edition gets a sampler with a few chapters of the strategy guide and one chapter from the 'Raising the Bar' book.

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Sounds nice and clears some things up.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I just want Raising the Bar. Thanks for the info.

 

[CyberPitz]

yeah, can't wait for raising the bar

 

[ZombieBudgie]

yeah, can't wait for raising the bar

Same here. I wish it came with the gold edition

 

[KurtCobain]

Nice info

 

[MaDMaXX]

hmm, someone in another post has just had a call this morning saying that customs has a package from the US for him, evidently, this is it.

And yes, the raising the bar promises to be a good book, though i was expecting it a little before HL2.

 

[Asuka]

Sweet Next week!!!! WOOT!. Cant wait. Wow everything is coming out at the same time. hl2 books woot woot!!!!

 

[czrsink]

My pre-order is sat here staring at me...I just hope it gets delivered in time for the release date. I need a geeky hardback coffee table book desperately.