Kingpin: Life of Crime Official Strategy Guide (Brady Games)

• BradyGames' strategy guide will include complete walkthroughs for all levels
• Detailed listing of weapons in the game, and information on how to get the best of encounters with the other characters with which you interact
• Multiplayer strategies and secrets direct from Interplay
• Using an enhanced Quake II engine, Kingpin is set in a part past / part future urban environment where the player begins as a small-time thug who must build a gang to overthrow the current Kingpin
• Primarily a first person shooter, Kingpin also includes some elements of roleplaying and strategy games. Players interact with the population while directing the activity of their own gang
• There are a total of 24 levels in 7 episodes, including special vehicle based transition levels

Too violent? Questionable material? More fun than you can swing a lead pipe at? No matter what your opinion of Interplay's Kingpin, there's no doubt that this is a game people love to talk about. And wouldn't you know it, behind all the controversy lies one very impressive and challenging game. You'll need all the help you can get if you want to stay alive and work your way up to the final showdown with the Kingpin. Fortunately, this guide offers tons of tips and tricks for surviving gangland life. You'll first get a "nickel tour" of the game world, with each episode of the game and its main characters briefly explained. The next section details the weapons you'll have at your disposal, with a description and a list of tactics for each. Most of the rest of the book guides you through each mission. The walkthroughs include a list of objectives, important characters you'll meet (if there are any), secrets to be found, and the weapons appearing in the map. Closing out this solid guide is a section on multiplayer tactics and a list of cheats and console commands that can make your life easier. --Michael Ryan