Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition

by Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday

Guinness World Records, the world's leading authority on record-breaking achievement, is launching the ultimate annual compendium of videogaming achievements. Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 brings you record-breaking computer- and video-game accomplishments from around the world, including high scores, biggest tournaments, largest cash prizes and most successful games. In addition to thousands of high scores and records, the book features a round-up of the key events of the video-gaming year???including reviews of new releases, new consoles and the major tournaments???along with detailed game strategies, interviews with the professionals, tips and cheats to improve your play, tabulated information, full-color photography and illustrations, league tables, bizarre facts and amazing trivia.

Genres: Nonfiction

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Guinness World Records™, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records, is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the United States

Reviews

[Bayley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. The information in this book is extremely poorly organized. The records are divided by "genres" that just don't make sense in a video game setting. Video games are not divided into sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, etc like movies are. They're divided into genres like shooter, RPG, platformer, etc. This book does not seem to get that. Furthermore, it gives hardly any page space to handheld game systems, and considering the Nintendo DS is the best-selling system on the market right now, the book feels a little bit biased.

And lastly, what the heck was with that compiled list of "Best Games Ever" near the back? Clearly, this book was not written by gamers, because I don't think anyone who actually knows games would call Super Mario Kart the BEST game of all time. Not to mention Metroid Prime wasn't even on the list. It was just awful and inaccurate.

[Adrian Sanchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

About this book is that there is about people that broke game records like Mario and Donkey Kong and peole that have almost every game system and also people that broke other people's records and also game company that beated other game companys that have good game's. thats what the book is all about.

[Jinar]

this book has info and games i did not know could exist chek it out :)

[Daniel]

ok :)

[Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Gaming World Records. I love this book.