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Summary: WARNING: THIS GAME WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE
Review: When I got Black and White, I was ecstatic "This looks fantastic!" I thought to myself. But looks aren't everything. I played it for about three hours solid, loving every minute of it, until the faults became visible.
I swear Black and White doesn't work unless you have a computer that is so powerful it hasn't been invented yet. I bought Black and White in 2000 (I think that was the year it came out, but I'm not sure) and I had recently got a new computer (a windows millenium, one of the more powerful family computers you could get at the time).
How many times this game crashed, I have no idea. It crashed, and it crashed, and it messed everything up until I just had to give up. I was really annoyed - it may have gone down in price now, but at the time it was really expensive.
I took it back to the guy in the shop where I got it from and complained - he suggested doing several things but none of them worked. "Do you have an old computer?" He asked. "Maybe it doesn't have enough memory for the game." Now this REALLY annoyed me - I had a good computer - one one of the best you could get at the time -but it still wasn't good enough for Black and White. So if a new computer didn't have enough memory, what did?!
I had to give up - I uninstalled it and left it for a couple of years. I recently tried to reinstall it, but it still doesn't work. I have the same computer (I even had some memory added to it) but IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!
What can I say? A masterpiece of a game ruined by hundreds of glitches and the fact that no amount of memory is enough. If you want to play god, get the sims instead - at least it won't ruin your computer.
Rating: 
Summary: Zero Stars for a Zero Sum game!
Review: Too bad I'm not able to leave a Zero Star. I played this game up to three campaigns. The micromanagement was futile and so was my creature assistant. During the third campaign, I was trying to micromanage as best as I could - gain resources. I realized I spent nearly an hour pulling trees for wood, that's it. A major premise of the game is like pulling digital e-weeds. I changed my game deity's name to "The Weed-Pulling Garden Gnome" - Finally frustrated, I swore on my own name, "By the dirty fingers of the Weed-Pulling-Garden-Gnome-God! Gawd! This game sucks!"
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Summary: dull and tedious
Review: I remember being really enthusiastic about this game. I have liked similar games, dungeon keeper and the populous series.But this one failed on many levels. Good-
Interesting ideas and large area to play with. Bad-
Buggy, there were many small errors and crashes that I had to deal with for the short time I was playing it. Too much micromanagement. If I were a god for those people I would wipe them out and hope the bee's were better subjects. they seemed inept at just about any aspect of life needing help for the smallest tasks, seemingly unable to learn from their mistakes and always demanding you do more for them. Creature, good idea, but bad in practice. It was an interesting idea to have this animal and train it. but it was time consuming, vague on how you were supposed to do it, and not terribly useful. Controls were terrible. I spent eons on one part throwing rocks since they didn't take into consideration that some of the movements would be difficult with a trackball mouse. Narrators were annoying. The little devil and god were overly cartoonish, overused, and their voices quickly got on my nerves. in a whole unless you like monotonous work, go with some other game. This game wins on coneptual department, and fails in playability and fun department.
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Summary: Misleading info about system requirements
Review: I got this game when it first came out and was really looking forward to it. And I wish I could tell you how great it was. Or even how bad it was. However, I can't because even though I have Windows 98, this game wouldn't even load up. I called EA's customer support and they told me that there was nothing they could do. Since I had already opened the game (as I had planned on keeping it), I was out $50 for nothing but a blank screen.
Moral? Make double sure that your system will run a game before you buy it. And even then, you're sometimes not out of the woods.
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