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Summary: Disapointing
Review: 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.
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Summary: Do you Black & White ?
Review: Black & White is a game where you have control of everythig, you are the new god for an inocent lad, who don't know about good or evil, you could be a good god, and take care of your people, make miracles of food, water , wood, etc, to make their lifes better, or you can be a evil god, who is hungry of blood, sacrificies, deaths, you choose , everything is up to you. In the game you will see what U are, a good god will have long days and short nights, a white temple, and people who works with love in their hearts, if U are a evil good, your temple will be red, the fear will be everywhere, the nights will be very longs and dark. Even when U are a good you need some asistance, and there is where your creature ( your phisical presence in the land ) takes place, your creature need to learn about good or evil, you can train him to be good or evil , and even you can have a good creature and you be evil :). Just some words of advice, the game need a good 3d cards, and i was reading that this game have problems with the 3D Blaster Banshee from Creative Labs. Now you are ready, go get the game now, you will like it
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Summary: Oh, Well...If it just worked..
Review: I have a Athlon 600 with 8 mgs of 3-d video ram...half of the 16 recommended.... but I wouldn't think that would.... Stop the miracle dispensers from working....or Have my creature get stuck in a wall and then not take any commands.,which he did after I finally released him in land 3. It also has saving problems..and sometimes just reboots the whole computer. On top of that I can't even be online...and open the game..the internet modem link won't work and locks up my system totally. So much for multiplayer option. But despite all that I feel it has entertainment value. I like the slow pace and the chance to figure things out and observe little things. I am not a "Hack & Slash" player. I have played over 60 hours now and haven't made it through land 4. I keep replaying with different stratigies and creatures. The first time through I used the ...hurry up and win attitude..and that was boring and I could see why there are so many negative reviews. The rest of the time I have gone thru a land as completely as I can and have enjoyed the interaction. It has beautiful graphics and an interesting premise..but they need to fix the bugs, and allow you to skip the tutorials(at least in replay..ie if there is a saved game in the file offer the option of skipping). I think if they had a system check for components at the beginning of the installation and let the players know that their hardware shortage may contribute to problems, customers may not feel that all the blame was the software. I waited for this game for over a year..and felt that the hype was way out there...no game could live up to it...and it didn't..but it has promise and room to grow with add ons. If you are an old time figure things out..and ways-to-get-around problems person (the game itself giving you some of the problems)...you will like this game. If you want fast pace beat the bad guys game..don't bother.
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Summary: Spend a little more time!
Review: Black and White DOES have replayability, contrary to what other people said. It takes a little more time for the creature to learn actions than people with ADHD have attention span, which many of these people seem to have. A little time is all tnat is needed. Even though there are only five levels, the levels can be played over and over and can be played differently each time. I bought the game, and everyone else should too.
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Summary: Definitely an effort to stay interested
Review: This game really isn't fun. I'm not really sure what is supposed to BE fun about it. You can't skip through the cut scenes and the characters that play your concience are just annoying. Even with the trick to make immense amounts of food and wood with miracles you spend all your time trying to make the ant like people do SOMETHING. I spent about thirty or forty hours trying to enjoy this game and then I gave up. I had spent a rediculous amount of time trying to get through only a few parts of the game. Your creature really isn't very interesting. Sure it learns and everything but even teaching it is just a matter of repeating the same thing over and over and over and over again. Not something I really enjoy in a game but hey that's just me. A few "levels" into the game your creature is taken from you and you have to be a god without him for a while. Right when I was getting a close to getting him back, I was set back another several hours by an attack I could have stopped had the symbol interface not been so slow. I'm not sure who would enjoy this game for any amount of time. If you like being in control I'd suggest a Sim game. Another thing I found odd was that this game came on a single CD. For it's price and the amount of hype that I had heard I would have expected a game which consisted of a little more than poorly rendered worlds in which tasks are set up that are much more like chores than quests. In closing, if you like taking out the garbage and doing other menial tasks, there is a slim chance you could enjoy this game.
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Summary: Bad Game! Bad Game! Back to your Programmer!
Review: 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.
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Summary: 16 hours/day... but only first 2 days
Review: I had to give the game only one star even though I spent about 30 hours for the first two days I had it (almost failing my midterms). Why only 1 star? I finished four land, the last one is left, but guess what? I just don't feel like playing the game anymore... It became boring and pointless. Probably the latter is even more important. I often like boring games but which have some solid goals. You don't have a goal here: micromanagement was not supposed to be one, creature stuff turns out to be pointless as well. You don't really need to spend much time for your creature to win games. And again, it would be fine it would be just pointless but fun. But it is not fun after all. Eventually everybody gets used to admittedly superb graphic and some creature tricks. Then you see - the game had zero "replayability," zero fun (unless you buy a game to have fun for a couple of days), and zero [intelligent] gameplay. Personally I will get back to the game only if Lionhead will come with a user-friendly map editor and an updated gameplay for skirmish and multiplayer.
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Summary: Give it a chance!
Review: Many reviewers seem to lack the patience. You have to devote some serious time to this game to get your Creature working well enough that you can extract yourself from the elementary game playing to handle more advanced and abstract tasks and quests. Things get progressively complex as you advance in the game, and if you haven't trained your Creature well enough to do lots of the simple things for you, you can't enjoy the game as a whole. You just need to get past the tediousness of the initial training of the Creature. Black & White satisfies those who enjoyed other god-games such as Populous and SimCity. I would, however, recommend adhering to the "recommend hardware" instead of the required. With an 8MB 3D graphics card and AMD Duron 700MHz, rendering can be jumpy, and the speech of the characters occasionally gets truncated.
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Summary: Good idea with bad design
Review: I'm sure this has all been said before in previous reviews, but this is a good concept with bad execution. The interface was obviously made for a 2D game. Rotation around a fixed point doesn't work in 3D, it makes it very hard to look around. Zoom is also a decidedly 2D feature. It should be replaced with an altitude control. And why, as a bodyless being, do I run into so many friggin' things? If I'm close enough to see the ground, I'll run into a mountain and get stuck. Let me fly through it, or automatically adjust my altitude or something. The whole dragging the ground with the hand is so awful I don't know where to begin... Tiring on the arm and wrist, difficult to go over mountains or other large objects, impossible to interact and move at the same time, the only way movement is even tolerable is to move entirely with the keyboard. As I said, all of these would work on a 2D game, but not here. Boring as sin to train your creature. Even the ape has the IQ of pond scum. The AI likely could have been written by some drunken frat boys. There is no need to force the player to teach their creature to eat. WHAT to eat, sure, but my creature shouldn't starve because I leave it alone for 5 minutes. The leashes are either poorly coded or you have to teach your creature the difference between nice and mean, at which point the different leashes become useless. When I attach the nice leash to a person, my creature really shouldn't eat him. As far as I can tell, the choice between good and evil is purely cosmetic. In other games, some people like to build armies, some like to focus on economy, some attack helpless workers, some don't. Ruling through fear or ruling through kindness is just a choice in playing style. The tutorials wouldn't be so bad if you could skip them. They're very, umm... complete. About 2 minutes a pop worth of complete. There are about five of them in a row right at the beginning. They're obviously made for people who are just experiencing sight for the first time. "Here's how to zoom. Here's what it should look like." Most people can figure out if they're zooming or not, just give us the controls. Did I mention that you can't skip them? There are a lot of things to interact with in this game, so long as you're satisfied by picking things up and putting them down again. I don't know about you, but if I were a god, I wouldn't spend the greater part of my time as a pack mule, which seems to be the most prominent incarnation of your godly powers. Good graphics are about the only thing this game has going for it. Quite visually stunning except for the people, who all look exhausted or drunk. Despite being chunky with strange proportions to their body parts, when zoomed far enough away that you can't see their faces, the people look good too, with a wide range of movement. If you like graphics enough to overlook the rest of the game, go watch a Hollywood movie and don't encourage people to make games like this. So unless you feel the need to practice coordinating the mentally challenged from an airplane with a drunken pilot, don't buy this game.
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Summary: Hardcore Gamer reviews Black & White
Review: 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!!!
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