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Summary: Ehhh, mediocre, really
Review: This game is very pretty to watch, which is a good thing because it seems like most of the time you're watching the game go through it's (very long) little video clips rather than actually *doing* anything.As long as you're not trying to actually accomplish anything, it's fun. The creatures are neat, though I have trouble smacking mine - no matter how fast I move my mouse it ends up just petting the creature, so he's been very difficult to manage. But I blame my PC (AMD 450) for that one... But as soon as you start trying to move anywhere through the game, you're subjected to little video after little video, and no way (that I can find) to skip to the end of them. It gets very tiring. It's also pretty hard to just navigate around and keep track of things. My creature keeps getting loose and eating my villiagers, *sigh*. If I had a better computer that would help some aspects, but that doesn't do anything about those dratted videos. Oh well, at least it gives you plenty of time to go fix a snack while you're waiting...
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Summary: Need latest computer! (0 star rating)
Review: You need the latest computer to run this - and then some luck. My Win2000 with Matrox Millenium II (actually a Corona) display, 350 Mhz, SCSI etc, would not run it -- it just dies. The documentation does have a section on what to check when it just dies without an error message (kind of a shame the programmers didn't write an error message for all exit points) - anyway, I pass all the tests -- So, I think EA just figures it's my fault and that's that! It runs on my girlfriend's newer Dell with WinME, so she can play. Just a warning - you need the latest machine and some luck!
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Summary: Black & White: Best Game Ever
Review: Black & White is really the first game of it's kind, allowing the user to play God. You can be good or evil, depending on how you act to your villagers, fellow gods, and your creature. Being god is tough so you get some extra help by getting a creature when you first begin the game. You can choose from an ape(learns quickly), a cow(average creature), or a tiger(great fighter). Featuring THE most incredible AI in any computer game on shelves, your creature will actually learn from what you do. If you are a good god, your creature will be good, and vise-versa. There also is the aspect of intense micromanagement where you have to take care of your villages and villagers to fuffill their desires. The only drawback of this game is that it is extremely buggy. The patch availible from www.bwgame.com is practically required to be able to play the game. If you can survive the bugs though, the game is an excellent buy and is one way ahead of it's time.
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Summary: Great Gameplay, awkward progression
Review: I love this game, it's challenging enough to hold your interest, but not so much so that you get frustrated (Europa Universalis). My one complaint is that if you want to start a new creature, you have to start from scratch and go through the whole tutorial again. There may be a way to skip this, but I haven't found it yet. Online gameplay is adequate but it would be nicer is the host could set more variables, like AOE.
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Summary: Ten minutes of fun in a $40 package
Review: Don't waste your time. This is forty dollars worth of tweak, and not as much fun as a typical sim.
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Summary: Great UI, poor gameplay
Review: First the good: This game's user interface is outstanding. It is rich, well developed, and quite pretty. I found it easy to get a handle on how to use it. Now the bad: The designers spent the whole time on the UI and forgot that the game should have some sort of enjoyment other than the scenery. The game was dull, dull, dull.
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Summary: If I Had the requirements.....DYNAMITE
Review: My computer needs to be upgraded but when I recieved the Item BLACK & WHITE I knew this was not going to be a loser; and I didn't open it. The games out now are superior to those only a few years ago. I'm upgrading my system Pent.3-4 whatever. A nice grafics card and on my way. This isn't a GAME. It's a Gaming Adnenture Program to get lost in for a long time to come!!!
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Summary: Potential apparent, yet flawed
Review: This game has great potential. Beyond great. Excellent. There are only a few basic things I have to say: 1) There are too many bugs. Wait until December or so, maybe they will all be fixed. 2) This game is a hardware buster. 3) The gameplay is flawed. It gets frantic, the villagers are ANNOYING, and impossible to take care of efficiently. This game is downright impossible to concentrate on the missions sometimes because you are too busy controlling the villagers. End of review.
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Summary: Fun for a few hours...
Review: The idea of black and white is great, on paper. The idea that you can be a deity, winning followers over and defeating other gods sounds like a great idea. Unfortunatly Black and White suffers from poor execution. First of all there are the miracles. In order to select them you first have to move the mouse in certain patterns, which is somewhat annoying. The major flaws however are the boring tutorial which cannot be skipped and every new career you start must take, and the micromanagement required to keep a village believeing in you. Also, once you get used to these things, the game is only fun for a week or so before it gets boring. I wouldn't recommend paying more than 20 dollars for this game.
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Summary: great game
Review: This game is difficult, but gives one ample time to figure it out and get good at it, and is very interesting and is just a great game. I can't believe that it only has 3 1/2 stars. It's an outrage.
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