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you MUST MUST MUST ! buy this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: October 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the graphics look amazing and your creature looks just amazing.
like B&W1 you have the choice of being good or bad. You can build massive matropalises and be peaceful, or you can build huge crushing armys and seige weapons. Your creature is just mind blowing you can teach it anything you want. you can make your own toys for creature. your creature can look after your city helping the villagers collect ore, wood, food and make dicsiples along with many other things, or your creature can lead your army, crushing men under his footpaws and making strategic plans to crush the enemy. there is a very campaigny mode to the game if you want to just wip through the levels, or you can build up towns and muck around helping, or destroying people for fun.land one is a step by step guide to the game, land two is where you have tosave as many greeks as you can, land thre is where thing really start to warm up, where you can really see the graphics kick in.

this game is a lot of money but it is worth every penny. a lot of people put it down but they shouldn't, i think this is the best game around. there is now a downloadable patch for FREE of the internet where they have just polished up the game.
it takes a lot of memory and harddrive so it doesn't work on some machine it takes up 512mb of ram, 3.5 gb of HD, IT RUNS ON 98 200 AND XP, IT NEEDS 64MB GRAPHICS CARD AND A GOOD SOUND CARD
this is the only dissapointment, but it isn't that bad for me to mark it down
well done guys !!!
james mainwaring
thank you for reading

Different...but still classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Its not quite the same as the original but definatly has some better points, the graphics are much better and rasing armies and stuff is sick plus like new cities you can build and city walls its just like a step foward in civilization, i really enjoyed it it may not have the same stuff as BW but it really does contain some of the best and most original ideas ive seen in a game i recommend it youll enjoy it its a bit more stuctured then the first.

Gives you a killer headach

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased this game for my new computer. What a let down! I played the first Black and White and really enjoyed it. I spent most of my time zooming in and out, tilting the view, and trying to select people/items involved in the game play. The tutorial part of the game is WAY too long, and the conscience characters are extremely obnoxious. You are not able to interact with the character nearly as much as I would have liked too. The game also runs very slowely, and I had serious problems with the graphics (during movies, especially). I would recommend sticking to the original version.

Very Disapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: September 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointing! I bought the first Black and White for $50.00. There was no way for me to know that it was not compatible with Windows XP. I was so ecstatic to find the new Black & White 2 on sale. I popped it in and started with a sense of wonder. It was frustrating and took some time to get used to the controls, but I got past that after reviewing the tutorial. As I progress into the game I have become more disillusioned. It seems that the "evil devil" guy talks a lot more than the "guru monk good guy". Often the little stupid guru guy just kinda shrugs, while the devil guy tells you all kinds of things about warfare and exploration. Because I came into this with no experience, I thought it would be an equal thing between them. Obviously the little devil guy has most of the understanding, and so you end up doing his will. I really wanted to build a beautiful city of peaceful people, but so far, no matter how hard I try to be good, little messages show up saying "evil" when I do something. What a disappointment. I would not recommend this game to anyone who has children. The intent seems to be that no matter what you do, you are inertly evil. When children continually get that message, they will start to think of themselves as evil, and then fulfill that. Very BAD, single minded guys who created this bullsh_t. Also, even when you are working as hard as you can, you will get messages that the people are very unhappy. Very soon everything goes downhill. If you really want to make this work out for good, you have to continually save the game before you are damned to be evil. If you want a game that will easily make you an "EVIL GOD", you have the right one!

Didn't Recognize my Middle Mouse Button

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: January 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just a note about two technical problems I had with this game. First, during installation, it locked up my computer (XP Pro, fully-updated) twice (big red button time). The first time was on the 4th (out of 4) CDs. To work around that, I copied all four CDs to my hard drive and installed from there. That led to my second lockup. While merely copying the files to my hard drive, XP locked up again. After that hard boot, I was able to get all the files copied and installed. But, that second lockup leads me to suspect the problem was with the CDs themselves.

My second problem was an incompatibility with my Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000. During the initial tutorial, the game goes through a section on panning the view using the middle mouse button. The tutorial simply wouldn't recognize my mouse's middle button clicks. After searching the web, I found that people with the Logitech MX 1000 (amongst others) had the same problem. The solution was to use their mouse software to change the default middle mouse button to Autoscroll or middle-click. For some reason, doing the same with my Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 software didn't work. At that point, I just said "to heck (hah) with it" and uninstalled the game. My son tells me that when he played the game, he had the same problem with his Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. He worked around it by changing the options in the game to use the SHIFT key instead of the middle mouse button.

It's not much of a review, but hopefully, it might help others who are running into similar problems and are willing to fight with the game more than I was. I rate this game at 1 star out of 5.

Beautiful frustrating fun!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think the graphics are great making playing more enjoyable, and yes it crashes ALOT which is very frustrating I lock up about once an hour and my equipment is decent. The First Black & White crashed/locked up alot on my system(s)and this one is just as bad which is disappointing because you'd think after 4 years and all the problems with the original they'd have fixed that! True, the AI and tutorials are moronic but I'm not playin to earn a PhD I'm playin for some nice simple fun and I got my moneys worth. But I do wish I could skip the tutorials dammit!

IMO Casual gamers will probaly love it for being pretty and simple but hardcore gamers will hate it for it's junky development and simplicity.

this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: October 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

nothing more really needs to be said.I'm running a 3GHz P4;256Mb ATI Radeon 9000 series PCI express video card and 2Gb of RAM and the game still hangs,lags and locks up on my computer. I tried uninstalling & reinstalling-same effect.DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

b&w review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

great game, I highly belive on buying games when they are 1 or 2 years old, the reasom I say that is because most all developers let the game out way to early before the game is all worked out and bugs are fixed bugs which are fixed throught patches, if game developers really want to sell a good game make one with all bugs worked out, this game has not flaws that I found, well made game, fun to play. but always down load a demo before buying, thats what i have been doing for years and in all my games, i dont have any games that i regret buying.

Well..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 38
Date: October 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game didn't really impress me. It could have been a lot better if the designers would have the patience. The graphics are good, but the gameplay is no fun. If you want a strategy game, don't buy this.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At First is cool to play with it but then it get anoying because yout people are always hungry and then they will say that you are a bad god i just dont like it

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