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Black & White

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Price: $34.74

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633144666
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 14146
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: March 28, 2001
Sales Rank: 6103
Studio: Electronic Arts

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PC Gamer (1-year)

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Product Description:

Amazon.com Review:
If you've ever wanted to play god, Black & White should definitely be on your short list. This highly anticipated game takes the concept literally, letting players navigate and influence a lush world using only the "hand of god" as an interface. Players can use the hand to uproot trees, hurl rocks, rescue (or punish) followers, and control all aspects of the camera as it zooms, dips, and swerves over the completely 3-D environments.

The game gets off to a slow start, but things pick up once players get to choose their creatures. Creatures are giant animals that serve as your physical link to the mortal world, and they have a sophisticated artificial intelligence that lets players teach them how to act. In the beginning, there's only a cow, ape, and tiger from which to pick, but the choices expand as the game progresses. And for a limited time, Amazon.com customers can download a bonus creature--a magnificent horse. Click here for details.

Ultimately, creatures grow, and their appearance gradually changes to reflect both their tendency toward good or evil and the treatment they've received from the player. Deny the animal access to food and it will lose weight. Pet it each time it eats a villager and you'll soon have an evil juggernaut that strikes fear into people's hearts. Most of the game's fun comes from spending time teaching your creature and simply watching the crazy things it does of its own volition. Best of all, players and creatures don't have to have the same alignment, making it possible to be an evil god with a glowing, beloved, benevolent creature. It all depends on why you choose to reward or punish the creature.

Unfortunately, Black & White tries to be too many things at once, and there is rarely any real focus. It's difficult to enjoy training a creature when villages need protecting, villagers need direction, and buildings need to be built in order to expand the player's influence and ultimately win each level. It wouldn't be so bad if the villagers were half as smart as the game's creatures, but they require a lot of micromanagement to work efficiently. The single-player campaign gives players plenty of time in each mission to overcome these shortcomings, but prepare to spend many long hours administrating your holdings for every hour of pure joy that Black & White is capable of providing. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

Great graphics and animations
Exceptional creature artificial intelligence
Plenty of keyboard shortcuts, greatly simplifying the complex camera controls

Cons:

Managing villagers and buildings can be a chore
The manual is completely inadequate considering the complexity of the creature AI

Amazon.com Product Description:
Black & White is a role-playing game unlike any other you've played before. You play the role of a deity in a land where the surroundings are yours to shape and its people are yours to lord over. Be an evil, malevolent god and the natives will worship you with fear in their eyes. Play as a kind, benevolent god and they will worship you with love in their hearts. Your actions decide whether you create a heaven or hell for your worshipers. Then select a creature from the land to act as your representative in the world. Raise it to gigantic proportions and teach it to do your bidding--whether the animal grows into an evil colossus of mass destruction or a kind and gentle giant is up to you. Progress through the game's rich storyline performing powerful miracles to battle other deities and become the world's supreme god.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great game need Good computer thought
The game play is so good. the game is addictive. but the only reson i could not give it 5 is because if you don't have a good computer it will not work

Rating:

- Great Game!
I really don't know why people would give this game only one or two stars!? Maybe they play too much shoot em' up games. I think Black and White is one of the best games I have played in the last two years. Graphics are cool and the gameplay is easy to handle. It's fun watching your creature helping people and growing to an gigantic titan. You should at least give it a try!

Rating:

- your creature needs a poo
This box should carry a large warning saying "unsuitable for people over 12 years old". I've given it 2 out of 5 simply because the graphics are quite good. In every other way it is an irritating and frustrating game, as well as being patronising, inane, bland and "twee" in the extreme. I wish I hadn't wasted any money on it.

Rating:

- Great name, great game
At first, I thought it was too good to be true. I read many game reviews in my pc magazines and many previews online. All of it giving great praise towards lionhead studios. They also commented on some amazing new technology, some of which even ddownloads weather input for your game online! Now i knew they couldn't be lying about the technology, but i also knew that there is always a few bugs. There weren't any. I have had the game for about a month now and all that i have found in it is fun, fun, ... Read More

Rating:

- Fun and Original!
I had heard of this game, but I wasn't really interested. I don't like Sim-type games, at all....they just never hold my interest. So, when I saw B&W on display at a game store, I leisurely took the box down and inspected it. I was like..."Hey, this actually sounds fun." (I'm a sucker for pretty/interesting boxes.) So I bought it, although I still wasn't sure what to expect.

I was hooked from the start. The graphics are amazing. The gameplay is very fluent and easy to learn, and the ... Read More

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