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2 words "your" "God"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got nothing much to say. Black and White is just a great game. Two simple words "Your" "God". 5*'s.

Where is the Expansion

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have looked all over for this "Creature CD" expansion that was advertised in the Stradigy Guide and I can't find it anywhere. If they realy want people to buy there stoff they should provide locations of where they sell the Creature CD, because if they did I would be happy to 5 or 6 for me and my friends who also can't find it.

BORING!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is really boring and it has high systems requirements and video cards problems...... Do not BUY this game!

This game will blow you away

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

IF your hardware supports it. If you have some antiquated junk of a PC (more than a year old) you may want to look elsewhere for your fun.

If your system can run it though this is THE strategy/RPG game to own. Graphics are overwhelming, AI is mind-boggling, story and gameplay are truely unique and inventive. Think Populous meets the Matrix on HEAVY steroids.

One thing I'd like to note: Jeremiah Teague and other reviewers have complained about the amount of micro-management involved; how people can only be assigned a task one at a time. While it IS true you can only assign people a task one at a time, they WILL continue to work and breed all on their own without your help. They do need you to tell them what to build and, unless you set them to a specific task, what they do will vary from time to time allowing gaps in supplies of food, wood, and children... just for you to step in and make them happy.

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one ... of a game.I have only started playing it for several hours but I love it!

Basically, you are a God and as you get more worshippers, you get more power and thus your influence also grows.

You control everything from moving to picking things up via a disembodied hand on the screen. What I love about this game is that anything goes. You can opt either to help your people or make their lives a living ... Someone's brother needs to saved, you can save him or you could just ... him or his sister! Bored? Toss some giant rocks at your people. Or grab one of them and toss him! Eventually, you get your own totem creature who will be your avatar and will perform deeds on your behalf.

I have not gone to far into the game but so far it looks great. Stabilty wise, no slowdowns or crashes yet in almost ten hours of play so it looks okay to me.

Flawed perfection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Like many other reviewers of this game I had heard about it over a year ago and have been looking forward to it. I was enthralled with Creatures (although Creatures II was a complete disaster), and enjoyed the Sims, so I was looking forward to a similar experience. I also like the Heroes of Might and Magic series. Black & White reminds me of all of these but more so.

It is beautiful. The way you move about the landscape and pan in and out gives a sense of freedom I've never experienced in another game. You can swoop way up in the sky until the land is a little island, then double click on the spot you want to go to and you swoop back down. You can zoom in so closely that you can see a worm wiggling in an apple or see inside a house. You can reach inside the creche and grab the dice that your creature is so enthralled with. And all this without things fading off in the distance the way they do in most games.

A couple of misconceptions I read in other reviews deserve to be debunked. First of all, you and your creature become good or evil independently. You can be a good god with an evil cow, or an evil god with a good tiger. Whether you are considered good or evil depends on how you (or your creature) behave. If you kill a lot of villagers, if your solution to a quest is to crush the house and grab the rock the villager is hiding from you, if your method of taking posession of a new village involves lots of lightning bolts and fireballs then you will become more and more evil. The appearance of your hand (your representation in the game) will reflect your evil orientation. If you feed villagers, help the villager find her sick brother so she'll give you the rock, and take posession of the village through missionaries, traders, and miracles you will become more good. Your creature becomes good or evil depending on how many bad deeds (i.e. eating villagers) or good deeds (i.e. replenishing the village food supply) your creature does. You can fairly easily influence his behavior via a combination of reward and punishment and the judicious use of the learning, compassion, and aggression leashes.

The gameplay is also different depending on how you choose to go about it. If you solve certain quests via mayhem you will be rewarded with the ability to create more mayhem (like a Lightning Bolt Miracle) while if you solve the quest in a non-violent way you will receive a similar miracle (like a Water Miracle).

On the downside, the game has some serious technical flaws. The developers, Lionhead Software, have posted an announcement stating that a patch will be forthcoming promptly, but in the meantime the game crashes and freezes and slows down far too often. And the Black & White website which is supposed to be an integral part of the whole B&W experience is still not functioning. Also, the online game playing interface is confusing at best and incomprehensible at worst. Although I believe them when they state that they did not release a "beta" version of the game, I also believe that they were pushed into releasing the game before they would have liked to due to their arrangement with EA. So these technical problems have turned a game with a 5 star concept and 5 star gameplay into a 4 star review.

Superb, but now flawed.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying I knew nothing of this game until a few days ago. At that time, I noticed it and started reading reviews, checking out user comments, etc and got caught up in the hype. After some recent technical difficulties forced me to upgrade my computer's graphics and sound cards, I was itching for a game to test it out (I usually restrict games to my Playstation 2). I just had to get Black And White to give it a shot.

First of all, I had NO problems at all installing this game on my pc. I performed all the cleanup tasks before hand per Lionhead's installation instructions (Scandisk, Disk Defrag, and Disk Cleanup). I have an AMD Duron 700 with 128 mg of Ram and a recently installed 32MB Radeon VE graphics card. I don't think the game would have fared well with the 8MB Nvidia card I had before, but I expierience minimal slowdown with my current system configuration. Anyhow, the games graphics are superb. A Great deal of detail has been put into the scenery and your ability to zoom in and out of it is amazing. However, I do think the villagers could use a little more differentiation

The controls are certainly interesting. I initially thought they were quite cool. I use a trackball instead of a mouse and didn't have a lot of problems to start. However, that changed when I played the game. I found it difficult to move around at times and/or to select the proper thing (in a short period of time) due in part to the constantly changing camera views. I've had some bad things happen as a result (such as my ape eating a key villager before I could get to him to stop him).

I did find a few glitches in the system though which can lead to frustration. There was one instance where I had my creature save a drowning man. When he put the man on dry land, the guy was still drowning on land??? I came back later and found the guy still there in the grass with his body half immersed and arms flailing asking for help. Not sure what happened with the game there.

Anyhow, overall, I think the game is really quite superb. It can get tedious at times (particularly if you're trying to be a good god) but what do you expect?? Let's face it, it you were a god and had to try to impress your disciples on a regular basis to make sure they believe in you, well, that would be a very tedious life. Seems very realistic to me for the villagers to want/demand more and more divine intervention if they are to believe in a higher being.

The game is certainly worth trying if you're interested in it at all.

What a Game!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: April 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is sooooo cool. it has the best graphix! i'dreccomend this to anyone who likes "controlling" games. ...

One of the best games ever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First I would like to say that this is a great game. It is rated Teen(13+) because of some volence and comic miscif. The basic plot is that your God and you are one of many gods that want to take over a fairy-tale land called Eden for good and and/or evil. You take cotrol of a small island vilage and these people worship you consantly and as more vilages are taken over your influence expands. The only reason a didn't give The game 5 stars is because it is SOOOOOOOO choppy and slow if you have a slow computer(and even if you have a fast computer)also it is incredibly buggy and EA Games does not have very many patches but if you have the recommend requirments buy away but I warned you...

Well Worth the Wait...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can I say.... Well, Awesome would be a start! This game has superb graphics, sound, storyline, etc. I was literally blown away!

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