Strategy Guides
Emrich wrote or co-wrote the following strategy guides:
- Sid Meier’s Civilization or Rome on 640K a Day (with Johnny L. Wilson)
- Official Strategy Guide for Master of Orion (with Tom Hughes)
- Official Strategy Guide for Master of Magic (with Tom Hughes and Petra Schlunk)
- Official Strategy Guide for Empire Deluxe
He has severely criticized recent strategy guides for:
- containing only facts which should have been in the game manual, e.g. about the user interface.
- failing to teach users how to improve their play.
- failing to provide information which helps them to makes decisions, e.g. about the capabilities and costs of units and buildings.
- being inaccurate, often because the developers have tweaked the game during the publication lead time.
The faults, he says, are mainly caused by the game publishers' and guide publishers' haste to get their products on to the market.
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