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Summary: The Most Highly Anticipated Game Lives Up The Hype!
Review: I won't lie I've been waiting for this game for about 2 years. To kill time I've been playing other hits such as Counter-Strike and because I was so bored I played some Knights and Merchants. Well finally it arrives at my doorstep in the same old Amazon Box I love to see when I get home.The interior: I open the box and boom there it is Black side of the box facing up. I immediately toss the amazon box and open up the front of the box to see what they put together. WOW! The black side of the box explains the evil. The White explains of course the good. The box was one of the coolest I've seen but then again its just a box. So I open up the box and theres this stupid AOL disc and then a bunch of registration stuff and then theres the CD. Sitting in a nice case. I open it up to suprisingly one cd! I don't know how they did it but they did it. The Game: LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW IF YOU DO NOT GO AND BUY THIS GAME YOU ARE MISSING ONE OF THE BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR. This game is already in the hall of fame in my book. I have rings around my eyes and I can't sleep. I give this game a 9.9 out of 10 because at first the sound didn't work then I restarted my computer and then it worked so that was kinda annoying and it did the same thing for my friend but oh well must have been the Direct X but it didn't give me anything about restarting my computer. Anyway buy it. I don't need to explain the details to tell you how good it is. You've seen the hype it lives up to it double. BUY IT!
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Summary: BUY THIS GAME!
Review: If you do not buy this game you are defiantely missing out! It is on my TOP 3 PC Game list along with "Unreal Tournament" and "Diablo 2." The graphics are amazing, the sound and music goes along GREAT with the gameplay. The instructions are easy to understand and most of all the Lasting Appeal is VERY VERY HIGH! I can't see myself anytime soon getting bored of this game! The only reason I stopped is because I'm very tired and have school in the morning, otherwise I could play this game forever! So stop reading this review and go out and BUY THIS GAME!
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Summary: A real review from a long time fan
Review: First off, let me say that I have been waiting for Black and White for a LONG time. Two and a half to three years. I am definitely the kind of guy who went around saying what other reviewers have said "AMAZING GRAPHICS!!" "OUTSTANDING AI!!" I never thought I'd give this game less than 5 stars on Amazon for sure. But here's the deal. This game has major stability issues. It can't stay running for more than a couple of minutes on my system before I see the blue screen of death. It is the least stable shipped title I have ever seen come out of a major production house (EA) from such a celebrated (revered) designer. My specs are: Asus A7V mobo TBird 1000 processor 256 megs RAM GeForce GTS2 (CL Annihilator 2) ...and the damn vibrating mouse I bought just for this game Maybe they'll release a patch tomorrow that will perfect it. It seems no game comes out thoroughly tested these days, and they all need patches. But to me, as someone who waited through delay after delay, drove 4 hours round trip on opening day to get my copy, and stuck with this game through it all, the honeymoon ended before it began. This game is flat-out unplayable if it doesn't agree with your system.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This game is amazing! It is the best game I have played in a long time. I also read that IGN gave it a 9.7 which is the highest rating they have ever given a game. I whole-heartedly support their rating. Buy this game!
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Summary: This is a WARNING
Review: This is a WARNING for all who would buy this wonderful game, it will control your life, once you start playing YOU CANT STOP. If you dont have time to play, dont, you will lose your job, buy the game, take sick leave and play, just dont expect it not to take a giant chunk out of your life. (Awesome game for those of you in school, especially the ones who have spring break)
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Summary: This is the ultimate in Strategy Gaming!!!
Review: I've been waiting 2 years for this game, and it is definatley the ultimate in strategy games!!! If you want to buy your kid a game that isn't, usually, violent, and might actually teach them something, this is it. If you buy you child this game you will 1.) teach them to be responsible with their own increadibly intelligent pet 2.) teach them moral values, because the whole game revolves around how you play it, and the whole game world will change accordingly 3.) give them a whole lot of fun with 400 missions/tasks 4.) keep them from begging at your feet... and so on. The definative features of this game are the amazing graphics technology, and the slow, it isn't so fast that you'll start sweating just to keep up, and manipulative, you can do just about anything you want, game play. Also, this game is one of the first computer strategy games to have !!!NO INTERFACE!!! clouding up the screen. This means that everything you do in the game will be done with the mouse. Finally this game doesn't use texture patterns!!! There will be no repetative graphics, because it will create all graphics by blending textures to the exact detail, thus creating increadible graphics. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE IN MANIPULATIVE GAMING SO DONT MISS OUT ON IT!!!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Okay, I'll admit it. I was skeptical. The game couldn't be as good as everyone says it is. Thanks to a couple industry connections I got a sneak peek at the game -- a day before it goes on retail shelves. Well, it's better than excellent. This game is a classic. It really is. Some highlights: - Superb graphics. The ability to swoosh and zoom in on every little bit of the island is incredible. You can zoom over mountains, zoom into huts, zoom up into the sky: it's really amazing. - Superb sound. If you have positional speakers, the sound is quite effective. Moreover, it's one of the few games where sound actually enhances the game: you hear splashes, can hear the villagers go about their business, can even hear the cries of the villagers if (heaven forbid) you choose to become an "evil" god and start tossing them willy nilly into huts, flinging them across the town square, or dropping them from dizzying heights. It's amazing. - And, of course, superb AI: you're god and you choose a creature -- cow, ape, tiger -- to represent your god-like self. The creature -- with only minimal learning -- begins to adopt a personality. You pet it when it does good things (the creature giggles and laughs) and you whack it -- slap it back and forth -- when it does bad things (like, er, eating the little villagers, not that I advocate that ... ahem.) - A fascinating tutorial. If it's your first time playing, you're guided along by dual consciences -- a devlish little red guy (advocating destruction) and a blissed-out, sandal-wearing little British gentlemen (advocating kindness and compassion). As you get your bearings, these two little creatures float about the screen and point things out ("Pick up the little rock here and bring it to the sculptor!" "Check the scrolls. Scrolls are good!" "Hey, get real, do you *really* wanna save that villager from drowning?") It's pretty entertaining just watching these two little avatars compete for your attention. The tutorial shows you how to move -- which is a little difficult at first, but you can remap the key board keys -- shows you how to construct your "temple" (and takes you inside of it for a really whacked out view of *TOTAL* control. The temple contains rooms -- a save game room, a help room, a library room -- which, in turn, contain various "picture frames" that allow you to replay certain events, zip right to specific tasks, and more. The temple is pretty darn cool in itself.) Aside from teaching you the finer points of the game -- movement, in particular -- the tutorial really unveils the incredible richness of the world -- and truly gives you a god-like feeling. The tutorial offers you several challenges -- a few are a little difficult since you're not familiar with the world and it takes some time to figure out how move about and find things -- but as you complete the challenges you come to understand the complexity of this game. The "cartoonish" of the Sim games suddenly becomes apparent as you play 'Black & White' and face some pretty interesting moral dilemmas. You can choose how to resolve each dilemma, but once you choose, you must of course face the consequences. Do the villagers worship you? Do they fear you? Do they respect you? Is there a more subtle (and perhaps complex) chain of events that is triggered by your individual "god-like" actions? It's interesting, too, that it's possible to be a morally "complex" god. You don't *have* to be 100% good. You can throw in a little, er, terror to make the villagers stand up and take notice. Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that this game presents gamers with an "authentic" moral universe. But I understand -- and this only after a few hours of play -- that as far as "games" go, Black and White offers unique moral universe of its own devising -- with a specific set of rules and consequences. For that alone, the game goes slightly -- ever so slightly -- past the idea of "gaming" and approaches the realm of sophisticated simulation. (It's better, I'll add, then the traditional "historic" wargame that attempts to very carefully model real world events. B&W is a game which creates a unique universe and then models it amazingly well -- both graphically and (yes, I'll admit it) emotionally.) Maybe B&W succeeds so well because it offers (even more so than the "SIMS" simulations) the sophistication of truly *interesting* (and often unpredictable) artificial intelligence. Or maybe it's the fact that the game encompasses a complex world that (taken on its own terms) offers a variety of subtle challenges not usually found in computer games. But buy this game: it's fascinating.
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Summary: KISS YOUR SOCIAL LIFE GOODBYE
Review: Say goodbye to your family, friends and co-workers. Black and White is about to change computer gaming as we know it. The AI is unbelieveable, the graphics are outstanding, the gameplay is ground breaking and fresh. If you buy one game this year, make sure this is it.
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Summary: OMG!
Review: I urge everyone that even had the smallest thought of playing or at least trying a game to give this one a huge try! OMG, I need to breath!
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Summary: Hell YA!!
Review: EVEN though the game hasn't came out, i got a copy from my friend who has connections with EA, and let me tell u Black and White could be the best game of all time. Superb in every category for a game. It definetly deserves all the hype its getting. i sugggest u get this game right away, once it comes out. the only problem is it is a little complicated in the beggining, but once uve got into this game u won't be able to stop playing. GET THIS GAME IT IS THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME GRAPHICHS: 10 SOUND: 10 CONTROLS:10 GAMEPLAY:10 LASTING APPEAL:10
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