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Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay first the upsides good graghics, neat storyline, nice idea for a game, asome control and now the down side cant skip cinimatics so your stuck for abought 3 minutes at a time listing to the same crap over and over again, to be a good god is hard.

Not worth the headache

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have a brand new computer and thought to start putting some games on. so i bought the deluxe version of b&w and it is unable to play. i've tried updating drivers, it's just the game that sucks. don't uninstall the windows hotfix kb82...141 that some jerks tell you to uninstall. when i did that it made my computer go into an unending cycle of trying to reboot. i had to reinstall windows to get it working again. i hate lionhead games for still selling an obviously flawed game without usefull support or patches.

MY REVEIW

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: November 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is ok but it needs a bit more of a twist, it is to easy to start another game. i know a game is good when it is hard for me to start playing another game for at least a month. i recomend it to people who play all the games they have no matter if they like one better

simple as black and white.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In this game you are a god. You get followers, towns, and a creature. As you play through the game your alignment will change, depending on how you act. If you are good to your villages (feeding them, giving them wood, protecting them,) and if u never kill, then your alignment is good. If you are evil to your villages ( ignoring them, sacrificing them, etc) then you will become evil. Your creature is like a physical extension of you. Usually he will become the same alignment as you(but he does not have to). You can teach him all sorts of magic abilities (miracles) that are granted by your followers worshipping you. He will use these miracles as he sees fit.

The controls of the game are a little complicated, but you will get the hang of it. You can use the mouse, the keyboard or both to move around.

This game has ok replay value. Just because the game is over does not mean u have to stop playing. Online games are still going and there are skirmish games also available.

A sequel to the game is being created. BUT the release date has not been set, and the estimates are around August of 2005. Someone said to wait for that game, but thats a long time away. You can buy this and help with the wait. THe expansion pack and the game normally costs 9.99 each. With this combo pak u save $5, which u can use to buy a McDonalds value meal or something.

I don't kno if this is XP compatable, there is a rumor that a patch is required. NOTE i said rumor.

I hope this review helped

Windows XP

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: August 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm talking about an old budget version of B&W here, but it seems that the XP issue has stayed the same. Got it from Wall Mart for 9 bucks, and without a patch or anything it ran perfectly fine on three different XP computers with XP home edition and professional(P3 1 gig Laptop with ATI card, P3 1 gig Celeron Laptop + ATI card, and Athlon 3200+ with Gforce 5200xp. No problems at all. So I sent it to my brother in Austria, and on his machine, it wouldn't run. Before that, he had ordered the German version at Amazon. Wouldn't run either. He sent me the German version, it's working fine on my computers. I am suspecting this is more of a graphics issue than anything else. In any case, stay away from the damn thing, because in four years they either didn't care or were not able to fix the issue. Now they are trying to make a quick buck with an obviously still flawed version, but at a time when everybody is running XP. The consumer should not reward behavior like this.
Anyway, the game itself is in my opinion a little bit overrated. A great idea poorly executed (My creature is so stupid, it drives me nuts. Leash of learning yeah...). Creature management is tedious and boring. The controls (rotating, tilting, zooming) remained an issue, even after hours of playing. (Stop playing for a month, and then try to get used to it again...). And don't get me wrong, I am a "Bullfrog" of the first hour. Power monger, Syndicate, Flood and Dungeon Keeper are among my favorite games ever. Let's hope B&W 2 lives up to the hype. Syndicate 2 was a big disappointment in that respect.
Oh, graphics are good.

XP compatible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have windows XP and the game works great for me. My friend had the problem of it not working, though, and we found that his computer was too fast for it. If you have anything over a 2.0 processor the game will not work.
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I really enjoy this game. You become a god and must decide whether to help the people or punish them. You also get a creature to care for and train. Creature Isle, the expansion included, adds many new adventures to the origional game by letting you learn new miracles, play games with your creature, and much more. This game is a lot of fun and i highly recommend it.

Excellent in every way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, i have had no compatibility issues using Windoze XP w/ a 2GHz Athlon XP. Secondly this game is one of the best i have played. Sure the graphics are really outdated but its the gameplay that makes a game worth the money. It is so very engaging because of the level of flexibility you have in how you play. Of course, you do follow through a quest but you do so in your own time and in your own way. You get to take care of a creature, cast miracles, steal villages from other gods and best of all: you can throw people. Its a great game that I would reccomend to anyone who enjoys good god games.

This game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best of the world, if you have tried Black & White and Creature Isle you should try the new MOD for BnW CI named Bnw : Eruption, it's been made my players of BnW not by Lionhead, all of you who said BnW doesn't work on Windows XP, you should buy a new computer cause her it works great on Windows XP Professional UK, if you still have some problems don't install the update from Windows Update named : KB824141
if you have allready installed it, uninstall it. For all of you still wondering if they should buy it, DO IT NOW THIS GAME ROCKS!

Takes a little getting used to

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game may be really cool, or it may be really lame... haven't quite figured it out yet. The version on the disk wouldn't run initially, so I had to download an update to make it work. That was annoying to me since the game has been out a few years now and I would expect the most updated version and updates would be on the disc.

It will work on XP.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must say this is a fun game. It has great points in lots of stuff! Although EA won't tell you this it won't run because of KB 824141-x86-enu. If you have that go to the remove programs application and choose to unistall it.WARNING: Some games may need this and also it makes you less secure. If that won't get it too run you may have a 3D card it doesn't like. Although they shouldn't have said it was XP compatible if you have to do that when they don't tell you to do that.

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