The artbook has a beautiful large format! (As described) This is a softcover, which you will feel not really going to hold a strategy guide in his hands. Little character studies and character design. One sometimes has only 1-2 Be and then often only already finished animated (very human looking) illustrations per protagonist. I'm missing in the artbook the intermediate steps, the studies. The last pages are for me personally the most interesting. But the largest part of the book deals with the setting, the island, the landscape and ships (again a lot of animated and modeled). If someone throws out his eye and that's exactly his thing, then he makes with this artbook also nothing wrong. But I would have liked to see more character studies but with so many pages (see Bioshock / Fallout / Mass Effect / Sucker Punch etc.).
