• The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition
  • The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition

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    The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games Expanded Edition

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    Spread over 684 pages, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition) reviews over 450 games from 1975 to 2019, covering the role-playing classics we all know and love, such as Ultima, Wizardry, Fallout and Mass Effect – all brought to life with vibrant and engaging in-game images.

    The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition) includes articles on the genre, and each game entry also shares mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware. The book was written entirely by fans, AAA developers, indies, journalists, modders and industry personalities, such as Chris Avellone, Ian Frazier, Scorpia, Ferhegón, Richard Cobbett, Brian ‘Psychochild’ Green, Durante, George Weidman and Tim Cain, to name but a few.

    The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition) comes as a hardback as standard,produced using thread sewn binding for extra durability,then shrink wrapped. The cover features a specially created artwork by fantasy artist Jan Pospíšil. 

    Changes in Expanded Edition

    This Expanded Edition brings 156 pages extra pages, 65 new game reviews, revised content, a cover art gallery, and several articles on the history of the genre and some particular scenes, such as French, Korean and Chinese RPGs, MMORPGs, BBS games, browser games, RPG Maker games and fan-translations.

    Specifications

    • 684 pages, 254mm x 203mm, Edge-to-edge high quality lithographic print, Hardback, Sewn binding for enduring quality and the ability to lay flat for ideal double-page image viewing. Gold foil blocked cover and spine, shrink wrapped. Bookmark ribbon
    • Book weight: TBA
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    NH
    27 Jul 2022
    Nick H.
    Australia

    Spectacular, even for non-RPG fans

    I don't like RPGs, even the C kind. I didn't like playing D&D. Of the hundreds and hundreds of games in this book, I've barely played just a few. And yet I have to give this book the highest recommendation possible, even to people such as myself. If you have any interest in games whatsoever, or even just modern pop culture, you will appreciate this amazing record of a sub-genre of art as it developed. The production quality is perfect, you can open it to any page and read something interesting... I'm still not much more inclined to play CRPGs, but I absolutely love this book.

    MC
    28 Jun 2022
    Martin C.
    Fiji

    Definitive

    This is the definitive guide to CRPGs and a must-have for genre fans. It is HUGE, with an encyclopaedic history through four decades, from Beneath Apple Manor to Pillars of Eternity. Even some expansions, like my all-time favourite Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, get the full spread treatment here.

    GA
    27 Feb 2022
    Gavin A.
    Australia

    An essential purchase for CRPG fans

    Felipe Pepe's compilation of reviews and commentary is an essential purchase for fans of CRPGs. This isn't a "best of"... this game covers everything from bad to good, discusses what made the games notable in the history of the genre. It is filled with beautiful art and screenshots. You can pick up the PDF for free if you want to peruse it first, but there's nothing quite like holding this mammoth book in your hands.