Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great Back pack to frame and put on the wall for my other collectibles

The guide: The first pages... the art is truly breathtaking. It always causes me pause. Then the book is a first class strategy guide as you'd expect from Prima. Welcome letter with code on the back for an eGuide and a multiplayer bonus pack. The field guide is novel, and a nice, brief read. The poster of the Andromeda galaxy is pretty, but what do we gamers generally do with such things? We don't know what to do. They serve no functional purpose, and though our best intentions is to frame it (it is really beautiful), more likely it will get squirreled away with the countless other art posters for which there is not enough wall space in the solar system. Finally, the pièce de résistance, the backpack: It is slick. It is made from futuristic* materials (*vinyl and rubber, etched, laser-cut, and supple to the touch) which give it that 2184 feel and look. There is one zippered compartment for do-dads, notes, or even the game in its case. Then another zippered space with padded dividers, intended for laptops or tablets. Holding this, and imagining space-age materials, you can see it coming right from an Initiative locker. Sadly the materials are NOT space-age and I fear that if I were to wear this for a day at a convention, the arm straps wouldn't survive until the end, OR would never be useable again. I say this hypothetically, because I wouldn't risk that. If Prima's guide book weren't so amazing, I might be let down by this purchase. $129? Prima could get the folks at ThinkGeek to build a backpack like the "Bag of Holding" (popular product, I have one), styled in the Initiative colors and textures, then I could take it to work or school every day, as well as carrying my tablet and that guide book for an evening's play at a pal's pad.