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I loved it but . . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was challenging, rewarding, original, and most importantly fun. I really enjoyed my creature, and working with him. After a while my villagers did become fairly annoying, but that was part of the challenge. However, I made it pretty well through world 4 before the game completely froze. I was operating well above the system requirements, but every time I loaded the game it would be frozen at my creature that couldn't move. Not wanting to start over, I unloaded the game. It truly is worth playing, just be sure you have a really nice machine.

Cool graphs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: July 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I like it, but is difficult to dominate "the mouse". Is a good game of quest and domination.

REALLY 6 STARS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: July 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the most incredable progam game ever developed. I, and everyone I showed it to agree! I am not saying there arn't any great games out, but this game keeps you going and going............like the energizing bunny. The grafics are SUPURB; Storyline - PURE GENIUS'S Vary hard to stop playing. I played it so often I bought another one because I scrached mine up shoving it in the CD-ROM so fast. TRY IT. I believe 95% or more people will fall for this on. PURE GENIUS'S

[spelling offa bit] See how excited I am.

A Brilliant Triumph

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Black & White is a wonderful creation that is sure to appeal to most anyone with the time to sit and learn it. This is PC Gaming at its best.

BUY IT NOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been following this game since it was first revealed, and let me tell you:

It is close to, if not, the BEST GAME OF ALL TIME! ... ANYONE will enjoy this game, even if you don't play games normally. The game runs smoothly and looks beautiful, and is incredible fun. The creature that you raise is incredibly intelligent. As an example:

I told my creature to play a boulder-toss game with another creature. I didn't tell it ANYTHING beyond that, but when my creature started to lose, he got annoyed and heated up one of the rocks in the throwing pile of the other creature while it wasn't working, and laughed and teased the other creature once it got burned by the boulder. I didn't tell the creature to play a trick or ANYTHING, yet it did this on its own! It learns just like a child does as it sees things being done and does things. You reprimand or encourage your creature by petting it, slapping it, or even BEATING it. Buy this game or you will be incredibly sorry, trust me and about one million other reviews/sites!

One of the best games I have ever played!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To start off this game is a RTS/RPG. You play GOD, simply put. You can do whatever you basically want in this world. Along the way you gain the help of a creature which you pick. This creature has superior AI and learns by what you do. Or example if you put food into the village store while the creature is watching, it will learn this miracle and do the same. If you let it eat villagers and praise it, it will continue consuming villagers.

When I got this game I was Amazed. It is one of the most innovated games ever. Once you start it is highly addictive. First off there is almost endless possibilites on what you can do. The graphics for this game are very similar to those of the game Giants: Citzen Kabuto except overall these are much better.

The movement and camera controls can be difficult to learn in the beginning, but the game has an excellent tutorial in the beginning which helps out immensily. I suggest anyone who gets this game get a mouse which has a rolling scroller which can be pressed in, this becomes very useful when pitching and rotating the camera.

I have played alot of games over the years this one can take the cake. I suggest anyone who has a decent computer, and wants to be amazed to buy this game.

Great Strategy Game w/ Loads of Options

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first popped the CD in, I was blown away by the graphics and the complete freedom of movement. The setting is in a close to Myst-like environment in which you can zoom endlessly, move freely, and circle about something with ease. As a god, your goal is to get everyone to believe in you. Many try to do this by doing good things like providing miracles. But what makes the game great is the options it gives you. If a villager wants something, you can provide it to him/her, or you can do something evil so they won't need it. Either way, you will obtain believers (they will believe in you because you did something good, or they will see your true power of destruction and believe in you). I enjoy picking villagers up and throwing them to get believers, but you can do what you want. You have the ability to take over villages other than your own (you need to in order to progress as a god). You can do so by being good, or you can throw fireballs at the village so that there are fewer villagers to convince.

Through this all, you have a creature (3 extra creatures available from gamespot.com). You can use this creature to do your bidding and increase your power. This is where the games great feature comes through. The AI is great. You can teach the creature virtually anything (to go to the bathroom in certain areas, to eat certain things, to eat people, to create miracles for people, to throw rocks at other villages, etc). You teach him by hitting him if he does something wrong and petting him if he does something you want. As the creature grows, he becomes more powerful and begins to reflect his allignment (he looks mean if he is evil, pleasant if he is good).

The game is a blend of AOE and a Tomagotchi. The graphics are unsurpassed, the sound quality is great, and every aspect of the gameplay is good. I highly recommend this game to anyone as long as they have a social life to spare for a few months :)

Wow.... What a fun game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

OK, first off, B&W is a great great game. Anyone who likes The Sims (sorry to make the comparision, but there is a lot in common) will like this, and many people who didn't like The Sims will still like this. I'd like to reply to something another reviewer said, in a few mistakes he said. He said there was a runtime error and it crashed, and his AutoSave was gone. Well, this same thing happened to me (and I'm looking for a patch for it), but your autosave is NOT GONE. He just doesn't know where to find it (go into the temple, save game room, the top row of saves). This can't-continue-the-game bug is why I gave it 4 stars and not 5. He also said that it's all mission-based, etc. That is NOT TRUE. It is only mission-based on the first island (which he didn't get past because of the bug), because the first island is a tutorial island, teaching you how to play. It becomes much more open-ended after that. Anyway, it's a great game, now I just have to find a patch...

ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game was pretty good, although i guess it would be better if i hadn't lost the disc before i really had time to play it enough to get my creature and town going... oh well

BUY A NEW COMPUTER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There's a reason a lot of people are having trouble with this game- it's new! Meanwhile, the reviewer is typically running a three year old computer with parts that weren't very top-of-the line at the time (a Vodoo card? Give me a break. Spend the cash and buy a GeForce) I liken these reviewers to people who are complaining that their BetaMax player won't take DVD's.
I have a laptop (a NEW laptop, just to repeat my point) with an 8mb video card, and this game plays fine.
I like the lack of hotkeys and all that nonsense. If there's nothing else I hate more in a game, it's getting my butt kicked while I'm looking up stupid hotkeys.
The creature AI is pretty much cause/effect, but if you think about it, that's the same way the real animals work. (After all, how smart do you expect a giant cow to be?) However, through cause/effect, the creature will eventually learn to/not do something.
The graphics are very good, although not the best I've ever seen. They add imensly to the game (the fireball effect is especially cool).

Above all else, though, I like the controls. They are very different from anything else I've ever played. As I mentioned earlier, I am running B&W on my laptop, so playing games with the keyboard can be tedious (as some keys that would make gameplay easy on a dekstop have been moved or taken away), so anything that lets me play a game with a mouse is a plus.

Now that the price for this game has dropped, I would especially reccomend buying it.

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