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Worth the wait

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 32
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I work in a computer shop in England and this game is selling like crazy and i managed to get a copy(privilige of working in the shop) This game has amazing graphics and the gameplay is unreal. You have to raise a creature and you choose the path that you want it to go down. Your creature can be good and nobel or it can be evil. The interaction on this game is good and you will want to play this game again and again. This is the best game to come out on the pc for a long time

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 24
Date: July 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the most overrated piles of tripe ive ever played

the graphics are pretty but you'll need a pretty hefty card and processor to get the most out of them. my voodoo3 450mhz struggled almost constantly

the gamneplay, although hyped up something massive is dull at best. it just boils down to the people want wood so put some trees in the store. the people want food so put some food in the store. the other god wants you to get more land, put food and wood in another village's store. etc...

sound is good but it doesnt reallt matter considering the rest of the game is so dull

the creatures although made to seem like real children are boring and essentially boils down to ape picks up man, god slaps ape, ape goes "ooh", ape picks up another man. etc... i suppose eventually the ape will learn not to pick up the man but you'll have flogged this game by then.

my rating: zip

maybe 4/5 if you coiuld use the cd as a coaster maybe

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Do you remember a certain game by John Remero's that got a ton of press? Remember the hype that game got? THIS game should have gotten all that hype. You don't need to read what I am going to say, just go out and get the game.

What this game does and what few games can ever do is inspire wonder. Wonder at how much fun a really good game can be. Wonder to how your little monster can take two ideas and come up with a third (if not odd) idea of it's own. Wonder at how evil you really can be or even wonder at how much time can be taken up with the life of a god.

Some people may not like this game but then again some people think fishing is a sport.

Simply amazing graphics with some of the most astounding AI ever seen on a PC (or anywhere) this is more than just a pretty game, it's a world. An you get to be it's god. Oh dear....!

the good / the bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: June 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is a fantastic game and a great idea. I have a blast playing. That is until it locks up. There is a patch that has been in the making for months. Each time it is scheduled to appear, they delay it. the game is almost usless without the patch.

I would NOT have bought this game if someone would have told me this. I would have waited. I want to get the word out that they have made a great game, but they were not prepaired to sell it. Yet they DID sell it.

Simply amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I remember reading about Black and White a few months ago, and saying, "That will take another two years to make!" because of all of it's innovations. Well, imagine my suprise when I saw it sitting on my store's shelf! I snagged a copy and popped it into the computer...

The storyline in a nutshell is that you play a god, and you have to make the people in each land believe in you. You have miracles to help you, along with a pet animal that helps you accomplish this.

Graphically, this thing is AMAZING. There is day and night, weather effects, spell effects, sprawling landscapes, and of course, your pet. Every detail is represented beautifully. And if you register the game (if the process ever works out as of 3/31/01 with the website), the weather conditions actually coincide with your current weather in real life! In fact, you can even let the game use Outlook Express to name the inhabitants of your land.

As for the sound of the game, it is of course top notch. From the sounds of the inhabitants screaming as you pick them up and fling them into the air to the of your full sized-pet walking around, each sound is captured accurately.

But what about the creature itself? Imagine an incredibly complex Tamagachi. From the start, it is small and doesn't know a whole lot about the world, but if you teach it how to do tasks by your example, your pet will learn them. When your pet does something you like, rub it's stomach to tell him that you like what he is doing, or if it does something you don't like, slap it to let him know that he shouldn't do that! After a while, you can go off and do other things, and not have to worry about your pet because it will eventually be able to take care of itself. It will also eventually grow to titanic proportions. The way the pet's learning is handled is simply amazing. And if you want, you can put your pet on the Internet and have everyone see it.

Black and White is one of those rare games that makes you spend days in front of the computer, stopping only to eat and use the bathroom, and sometimes you may not even do that! Bear in mind that you have to spend a LOT of time taking care of your pet, because depending on how you feed or teach it, and the creature that you choose, it may take from twenty to forty hours for your pet to grow to full maturity!! Once you're done, of course, you can go on and compete in multiplayer. This game is set to become one of the greatest games of all time.

Say goodbye to your social life!

Hardcore Gamer reviews Black & White

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: May 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I know most people just look at the first couple reviews and look at the starts and I do the same thing usually. In this case though, I fell very strongly that this game was unjustly rated many times.

I am a teenage hardcore gamer, and I keep up with the new games. I have seen many impressive games and many not so impressive ones, Black & White deffinatly takes the first scenario.

I know this was not as anticipated as some games (i.e. Diablo 2) but this would have been if any real gamer had known how good it was going to be. I have yet to find any flaws in the gameplay and it is the most unique idea I have ever seen. I never thought a "Play God" game could exisist and really allow any freedom. Black & White does. You can control what you do with a fish in the sea, it gives you incredible freedom while mantaining a real plot.

The controls are slightly difficult to understand at first but in less than 20 minutes you can move around with ease.

I just feel that this game deserves credit as one of the best games ever made and was groundbreaking (in disagreement with an earlier review) and I would say anyone who has ever considerd buying a game should buy this, and it is sutible for any age group.

Black & White is a great game!!!

God awful game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: May 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, this has to be one of the biggest disappointments so far. I waited for a very long time for this game to come out and it's frustrating, tedious, and boring.

First off the camera/movement controls are absolutely horrible. It's one of those games where you start yelling at the screen because trying to move around and figure out where you are is making you insane.

Second the villager AI is even worse. These morons cant do anything on their own. They just sit/walk around...why is your creature AI so good and the villagers so bad?

This game is pure super-micromanagement. You cant click and drag over a group of villagers to assign them a job...no, you have to pick up each individual one, work with the ackward movement/camera controls, and place them next to whatever it is you want to do. Lots of fun when you have 100+ idiots standing there doing nothing.

And just wait til you get to the ship-builders and their ear wrenching song. I accidentally clicked the scroll above the ship and had to hear the whole thing over again, no way to get out of it.

I figure if you like The Sims and Populous injected with alot of micromanagement and some really bad movement controls, you might like this game. Otherwise, stay far far away from this good idea turned bad.

Boring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw a preview for this game on the former "Gamespot TV," I told myself, "here comes a revolution!" I knew I had to buy this game. When it finally came out and I got it for Christmas, it dissapointed, for various reasons:

1. The system requirements are way too steep. I have a Duron 950 with 256 Mb of RAM and a 32-Mb S3 ProSavage. It is not a great system, but it is not mediocre either. Black and White slows down after an hour on my system on medium/low graphical detail setting.

2. I hate the fact that this game has a two-hour tutorial!

3. The AI is horrible! No element in this game can do anything without being commanded. There is no automation. Thus there is an unhealthy amount of micromanagement. "We need food, we need offspring, we need wood, we need more civic buildings!" No, you need better AI, that's what you need!

4. The creatures are sooo utterly stupid. All of them. They do not learn anything. My cow constantly eats villagers. I slapped it immediately after he did it for the first time. I have slapped it to death everytime it ate a villager. I am certain he will continue to do this. I guess this can also be contributed to weak AI.

5. I hate the fact that the id and the ego constantly tell one things about which one can do nothing. One can be at the east of a map converting a village; the angel suddenly shows up and says: "your creature will it that sort of thing more often." What is he eating?!

6. Why should a god game have missions and quests and levels to progress through? B & W is not a god game. It is a bad strategy game.

7. As the title suggests, there is no grey in this game: One is either an absolute good or an absolute evil! Molyneux should have learned in-game alignment setting from BlackIsle Studios (specifically Fallout 1 & 2)

Overall, B 7 W is an overwhelmingly boring game. I played it for five or six days. I have not touched it for seven weeks! I thought this was going to be a god game with philosophical enlightenment. It is merely a weak strategy game unable to hold one's attention.

Avoid it if you can!

Poor planning makes this program difficult to use

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, but have been unable to use it, although my PC meets ands exceeds the minimum system requirements listed on the box. (I'm a professional computer support staffer) Support from Lionhead has been non-existant. I Can't recommend it.

Breathtaking and immersive...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: June 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...for at least two hours. I'm not going to beat a dead horse by repeating the multitude of complaints found...oh, wait...yes I am.

Black and White is not a completely terrible game. Its just not a very good one. The length of time Lionhead Studios spent in development and the intense hype surrounding the game act as salt in the wound once you realize "there's no there there." The AI is not what was promised--how could it be, given the constraints of contemporary computer languages? The villagers who worship you, rather than acting as sentient beings, are basically passive objects that must be manipulated continuously lest they die or stand around uselessly. One would logically assume that the worshipers of a particular deity would gladly wage war on behalf of their god, capturing rival enclaves and bringing them to the faith via the sword (this is featured prominently in god games that predate B& W by years and years, ala "Populous" I and II.) But no, in B & W there is no intervillage conflict. New worshipers are acquired either by manually making your own villagers procreate (lol) or by impressing nonworshipers via miracles or your creature's antics. Speaking of which, the creature that is meant to be your avatar is for some reason not imbued with even rudimentary intelligence and must be potty trained and hand-fed like a baby goat; when it behaves well you pet it and when it disobeys you beat it like a mule. Later, you can use the game's spell system (which requires some of the most convoluted and counter-intuitive mouse movements I've ever made in a game) to teach your creature to cast miracles (spells). For all intents and purposes, however, the creature is basically an in-game pet that can be allowed to die or wander off without much loss to the minimal gameplay. If your that in need of companionship, save your hard-earned cash and pay a visit to the local humane society.

I haven't even touched upon the numerous bugs that plague this game. As of this date a patch is not yet released, though Lionhead Studios has reportedly began work on a new game sporting the same engine behind B & W. Absolutely disgraceful...

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