Black & White 2
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Black & White 2
Customer Review: black & white 2
Summary: 3 Stars
its an interesting stratergy game but there are several things i hate in the controls and the ai is not as good as some games i have played Customer Review: play it a few times before reviewing
Summary: 5 Stars
plz stop doing reviews over how bad it is with to few options, cuz it just simply isn't that way. Yo can fire flaming people with catapults and or let you creature throw a flaming guy in the middle of an army so the middle of the army willl be on fire. You just need to be creative. Think like what will happen if I teach my creature to pick up a army guy set him on fire and than throw in the middle of a thightly builded city. This game has many options, but you'll have to create these options.
This wasn't really a review but a comment on other reviews who are saying that is boring and dull etc. With this game you have to make it fun with your imagination.
Customer Review: Repetitive, boring
Summary: 2 Stars
The overall impression is that of a game made on the rush.
Assuming the "good" alignment, you win simply by building expensive buildings at the edge of your influence zone and burning the enemy's platoons sent by a very unintelligent AI. Since winning requires no strategy, the game isn't challenging; you can do basically the same on all levels.
The races against which one fights are pretty much the same except for their "skins" and the building's aspect. Defeating them all takes you at most 8 hours of gameplay.
Unlike the previous version of B&W, there are no custom campaigns nor multiplayer features. Cinematics and creature apart, it looks like a very primitive first version of "Age of Empires".
Customer Review: Fun,... when it would run!
Summary: 3 Stars
*First off, all the patches & driver updates they recommended, did not stop this game from crashing my PC (something nothing else has ever done) during every game session. I have the ATI card they desired & met the standards. There was no online support other than reading what was already written.
Yet this game was enjoyable enough for me to play it at every opportunity, rebooting as needed, until I completed it. Age of Empires 2 has been the only other PC game that has hooked me.
You will note, as you begin this game, that it has humor, and in some ways is targeted for a teenage audience. I think people of almost all ages can get a kick out of this unusual RPG game.
Have you heard of Populous? It was a Playstation game where you were a goddess, looking down & controlling your tribe; making sure towns were built and defended, and throwing out some magic of your own.
B & W2 reminds me of it, except here you also have a "creature", your own pet that you help raise & train through reward & punishment. I like that we are given a choice of 4 to choose from also.
There is enough freedom in this game to concentrate on fighting, or city-building, or both, whichever is your preference.
There are also little side-missions that are optional to complete, but give you more money to buy things. They are puzzles to figure out.
Each land has a level, and the game actually can go quickly, especially after the 3rd land. Your first enemies, and last, are the Aztecs, which taunt you in the background while you play. The 2nd are the Norse, and 3rd, the Japanese.
After you have completed all the levels, the game lets you start over on level 3 with the Norse, but now you have all the fancy buildings to impress them with and all the magic too. Your creature is full grown and battle hardened. This makes it almost too easy the 2nd time!
I have the Creature Expansion to this game on the way. I hope it will be written to be more compatable with my PC. ( 1.8 AMD XP w/2 HD's, & 1 gig ram)
This game is worth a try if you like city-building or RPG!
Customer Review: What a waste
Summary: 1 Stars
This game has the potential to be fun. Unlike others who say this is "dumbed down" from the first one, I thought the the original B&W spent too much time forcing the player to set up cities and play the game with limited resources. This does correct some of the imbalance and allows for a more direct way to conquer other cities (namely, armies).
The problem is this sequel was designed like an after-thought. It, quite simply, doesn't work. My specs exceed what is needed - however, the game (and this is from forums dedicated to it) was not designed to be compatible with Windows XP, let alone Windows XP 64 Pro (which is what I run).
The result is that every time the game gets interested it crashes. Not to a blue screen, not directly to windows, but instead freezes, takes forever to get to the Windows Error screen, and then forces you to restart and go through the entire intro again.
So, no matter how much fun and pretty the game may look, it's unplayable.