We make art books. Coffee table tomes, creakingly full of every painting, model and matte that went into the game, but this strategy guide is also a kind of art book, like an illuminated manuscript of yore, with the words and wisdom set out to instruct and inform, but always with the idea that the words themselves should be beautiful, and contextualized in a way that is collectible as well as recollectable.
我们制造有艺术感的书。咖啡桌(此处隐喻)上摆满了书卷以及一些收录进游戏的画作,模型和蒙版,但这本官方指南也是一件艺术品,它就像被点亮的昔日手稿,极具艺术感,记录了指导众人的文字和知识,同时也表达了一个观点:文字本身应该是优美的,它是值得被收藏和追忆的。
So this guide will serve as your guide, your Virgil. We’re not suggesting hell and purgatory lie ahead, but there will be choices and challenges, complexities and calamities, and sometimes a calm voice is just what you need to lead you through the darkness and doubt. And so here is that voice, that vision, that Virgil.
而这本指南将会作为您的维吉尔来引导您。我们不会让您联想到前方是地狱或者炼狱一类的东西,但前方会有选择与挑战,同时也会有错综复杂和带来伤害的事物,有时您只是需要一个坚定的声音来引领您走过黑暗与疑惑。而本书就是那个声音,那番美景,那个维吉尔。
--Frank O’Connor
Franchise Development Director, 343 Industries