Thank God Greg Off and BradyGames is not doing the Dead Rising 2 guide. Hopefully Capcom fired BradyGames.
This book is riddled with errors.
The Official guide confusingly misnames several weapons:
1. Meat Cleaver incorrectly named a "Chinese Cleaver"
2. Machete incorrectly named a "Combat Knife".
* The official guide incorrectly calls ovens "ranges", despite the game announcing a "Cooked in Oven Bonus" every time Frank uses the oven.
* The guide also states there are 7 "ranges" (ovens), when there are actually 9 ovens.
* The guide states that there are 6 stoves when there are only 5.
* According to several store overhead announcements, the shopping center was just about to celebrate its third anniversary. But in the bio of Otis Washington, the official Dead Rising Guide incorrectly states "Otis has been working at the Willamette Mall since it first opened in the early '80's."
* The official guide misspells Barbara "Babara" on page 120.
Keep in mind to get a lot of these pp bonuses, like the oven and stove bonus, you need a correct number, so an accurate number is important.
Poor advice:
* Regarding Gil Jiminez (the drunkard), the Official Guide offers this unnecessary advice: "Unequip your weaponand hit Gil until he decides to talk to Frank again. Even after another attempt at convincing him to come with Frank, Gil declines." This is unnecessary, as many guides will tell you, all you need to do is walk away.
* The guide also fails to mention the 10,000 prestige point photo opportunity in the section on Gil, and many of the other photo opportunities.
* The guide lists both the red cabbage and the cabbage, when they are exactly identical except for color. Yet the guide does not mention the different kinds of milk, cooking oil, cookies, snacks and wine, which are also found throughout the mall as well as being in Seon's Food and Stuff, and have identical properties to the Seon's Food and Stuff food except for superficial appearance like the two cabbages.
There are more, I will update this list as I find them. Online guides say there are 100 prestige point stickers, but the guide says there are 99. Not sure who is correct.