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Disapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: May 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I feel compelled to lower the average rating of this game. People should not spend money on it. I normally like god games, but this game gives the genre a bad name.

Black and White is slow and tedius. I spent all my time getting wood to the villagers, food to the worshipers, and telling the villagers where to build everything. Unless they are being hurt by another god, the villagers should have been smart enough to fend for themselves.

Black and White is not all bad. I like the spell interface, where you make shapes with the cursor to pick spells, and I like the idea of needing to impress your villagers to keep them under your control. Also, the graphics are great.

But the game is just not fun.

Full of Regrets...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What exactly is the requirement of this game??? I have a P-III 1 GHz, 640 MB RAM, and GeForce-II 32 video card and this game still performs like a crap! Auto-Save in this game cannot be trusted at all!!! When it says game saved, and 20 min. later when the game crashed, you will never be able to load to the point where it AUTO-SAVED! Instead, you'll have to start everything over... I don't how they've QA this game when I see some design fraud in the game saving. This is very easy to duplicate and they should of caught this before they ship this game out.

a huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this could have been a really excellent game. it was so full of bugs though, it was unbearable. not only does it take 5 minutes to start up, but then it freezes all the time! and now when i try to load my games, the game starts over at the beginning. the customer support was awful as well.

Windows XP Pro

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game yet but my kids sure like it. I just installed xp pro and had to reinstall Black & White. Well it wouldn't work and I thought that was gonna be it. So just for the hell of it I tried to run it under windows 2000 compatibility mode (instead of 98/ME) and it works great.
Right click on the game then choose properties. Choose compatibility tab then check the run in compatibility mode box then choose windows 2000. Finally check the run in 640x480 box.
The setup book said 16 bit color so I have that set in my display properties. Right click the screen the choose properties. Good Luck.

Misleading info about system requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game when it first came out and was really looking forward to it. And I wish I could tell you how great it was. Or even how bad it was. However, I can't because even though I have Windows 98, this game wouldn't even load up. I called EA's customer support and they told me that there was nothing they could do. Since I had already opened the game (as I had planned on keeping it), I was out $50 for nothing but a blank screen.
Moral? Make double sure that your system will run a game before you buy it. And even then, you're sometimes not out of the woods.

Pretty Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a game where you area a god ( well, a hand acually), and you have a pet creature. As a god you can control different villages any way you like. You can even play catch with your villagers if you want. Your creature can be a cow, monkey, or a tiger. You can teach your creatue to be bad or good. You and your creature can perform good and bad miracles such as storm, rain. This game is great .You should probably buy it if you want to have a new gaming experience

Could have been great, but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been awesome. The graphics are cool and playing with the the creature is fun. But Village management is a freakin' nightmare. Talk about micromanagement. I spent more than 3/4 of my time taking care of whining villagers getting food and wood. Very distracting and aggravating when I'd have rather played with the creature. Especially frustrating is the way the campaign messes with the creature. This takes away the only good part of the game and left me spending my time doing more village management. Ahhh!!!!

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: April 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a P3 850, and this game runs slow and clumsy. The interface is overwhelmingly confusing and there just doesnt seem to be that much point to the game. Sure, killing your subjects is fun and the pet feature is nice. However, the interface/controls are simply to complex. I dont know about you, but I am going back to Civ II and SC3000. Skip Black and White..

Bad Game! Bad Game! Back to your Programmer!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is truly awful. The game has an interesting concept but the realization it horrible. You're a God but the only way for you to do anything is with your free floating hand - which is close to impossible to control. Between that, the poor graphics, and the problems it caused with my system I gave up after a couple days. I wouldn't bother unless you're into frustration.

Black & Blacker

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: April 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Somewhere between 3 and 5 years in the making, Black & White disappoints and irritates on so many different levels that it's hard to know where to start. The non-intuitive control system takes hours of getting used to, and even then is clumsy and unresponsive. The graphics are not on a par with such recent titles as Giants or Sacrifice, the landscape morphs and warps as you move around it and the villagers, well, the less said about them and their unfeasibly large feet the better. The sub-plots are supposed to be humourous but are merely twee, as are the good and bad advisors. Much has been made in the gaming press of the creature AI and it may well be the best ever in a computer game, but the game itself, which should surely be the most important part, is sadly lacking. This may well be selling swiftly, but will be returned to retail outlets just as fast by all but the most persevering of gamers.

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