Black & White 2
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Black & White 2
Customer Review: you MUST MUST MUST ! buy this game
Summary: 5 Stars
the graphics look amazing and your creature looks just amazing.
like B&W1 you have the choice of being good or bad. You can build massive matropalises and be peaceful, or you can build huge crushing armys and seige weapons. Your creature is just mind blowing you can teach it anything you want. you can make your own toys for creature. your creature can look after your city helping the villagers collect ore, wood, food and make dicsiples along with many other things, or your creature can lead your army, crushing men under his footpaws and making strategic plans to crush the enemy. there is a very campaigny mode to the game if you want to just wip through the levels, or you can build up towns and muck around helping, or destroying people for fun.land one is a step by step guide to the game, land two is where you have tosave as many greeks as you can, land thre is where thing really start to warm up, where you can really see the graphics kick in.
this game is a lot of money but it is worth every penny. a lot of people put it down but they shouldn't, i think this is the best game around. there is now a downloadable patch for FREE of the internet where they have just polished up the game.
it takes a lot of memory and harddrive so it doesn't work on some machine it takes up 512mb of ram, 3.5 gb of HD, IT RUNS ON 98 200 AND XP, IT NEEDS 64MB GRAPHICS CARD AND A GOOD SOUND CARD
this is the only dissapointment, but it isn't that bad for me to mark it down
well done guys !!!
james mainwaring
thank you for reading
Customer Review: hmmmmm....
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, after the long wait it's finally here. Was the wait worth it, well kind of. It looks really nice, but to be honest I think it could still look better, but the atmosphere is still wonderful to immerse yourself in. Looks like they've pretty much copied the opening sequence of the original B&W to this one, which doesnt make it look like a step forward, especially given the time passed since then.
Its hard to write this review to be honest, as I really want to like the game, and am playing it a lot, but there are just little things annoying me, and these all add up to a lesser gaming experience. I find the 'hand' control system now to be cumbersome, when trying to lay out a road when the town is busy usually means picking a person up by accident, unless you zoom right in to do it, meaning you cant see exactly where you want to go, and speaking of zooming etc, I find the veiw point always seems to end up in a near vertical aspect. I have pretty much ignored the creature as he seems good at everything bar the odd miracle, and really doesnt give or take anything from my running of the land, bar in the odd army conflict. To be honest I now want to play the game as a town planning game, seeing how good a town/city I can build, because I dont feel any pull to follow any story. I have built walls to stop the enemy, they havent tried to breach them yet, and I cant be bothered taking towns.
I will play it to the end nonetheless, as it is nice on the eye, but I dont play this with a look of awe etched onto my face. Since the first game, we have had 'Far Cry' which is outstandingly good to look at, and set a benchmark for quality of graphics. I think they should use B&W's graphics engine, add a Shaman perhaps, boats, add some more islands, and take the Populous series forward, allowing the changing of landscape etc, it would look awesome (obviously) and I think you would get more out of this beauty by being nearer to it, more involed in the shaping of it, whilst also growing a race to take out another. I thought Populous the Beginning (if anyone remembers it) was amazing at the time, and more could have been taken from it, to be honest the soundtrack to that game was so nice I would keep it!!
Anyway enough unclear ramblings, the specs of my machine are, AMD 64 3000, Windows xp 64bit, geforce fx5900, 1gb ram. It runs sweatly, no glitches, no lag. if anyone outthere is debating windows xp64, it is rubbish if you want to run an appplication based pc, as I still havent found printer drivers for it, cant connect my sony digi cam to it etc. But as a games system it is perfect, I have set my pc up dual boot, a drive for win xp32, another for 64, I run apps only on 32, and games only on 64, the difference say in running halflife 2 on 32, and then running it on 64 was that I could set the quality of the game to max once I installed it on 64, and my graphics card is getting on a bit now!!
Customer Review: Get the online patch
Summary: 4 Stars
A quick tip. Get the online patch and install it BEFORE you start playing the game. The reason is that the patch (which fixes several bugs and is HUGE at nearly 100MB) breaks old saved games. So any game that you were playing before you installed the patch will not be able to load.
So get the patch, fix your installation, and THEN play the game.
Customer Review: Different...but still classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Its not quite the same as the original but definatly has some better points, the graphics are much better and rasing armies and stuff is sick plus like new cities you can build and city walls its just like a step foward in civilization, i really enjoyed it it may not have the same stuff as BW but it really does contain some of the best and most original ideas ive seen in a game i recommend it youll enjoy it its a bit more stuctured then the first.Customer Review: Tedium at a new level
Summary: 2 Stars
The graphics are outstanding but in reading the forums you do need an outstanding computer set-up to enjoy...my ran beautifully graphic-wise on a 6800 GT video card.
But....I could only play thru the 4th level, the ever-constant clicking on things, trying to move around and resource gathering, troop building made it sooooo tedious I had to uninstall it rather than waste my precious free time.
The first BW was much better.