A very nice game even for those who haven't played the first Black & White.
The history line is totaly new, submerging you in a new history, you start as a nearly created god, with the holy mission to support your people and save them from doom. Your first real mission is to save your people from a powerful Aztec attack, but after all, this is a tutorial too.
The first missions are just Tutorials, you learn how to move, pinch, rotate and some more things... In the start, you may have a little dificult to get used to the controls... for example, to click in the exactly location of objetcs, but the game is real easy to play, by just using your big and powerful hand.
The tool bar is the negative point of the game in my view. Its very complicated to work, and have tons of buttons without description, that you must put the mouse over the button to read the description.
Now for the graphics. Black & White 2 is a very beautiful game... even if you don't have a Godly computer configuration, you still get much of the beauty of the game. You can pass your hand on yours plantations, make the trees swing, and such things. An AMAZING and REVOLUTIONARY thing in the game is the Interactive LIONHEAD Start Movie, where you can simply play with a big box full of little boxes forming the Lionhead logos in the initial video. Summarizing, Black & White it is a sufficiently pretty game and it will please to all its players.
Now we go for the registered mark of Black & White the CREATURE! You can make it be bad, of be good, It preferential will adapt itself to your way to govern the people! Reward him if he does a good thing in your view, of bash him down if he do a bad thing in your view... by this way he will learn what he must do and what he must not do. The creature can be used for many things... crop platations, chop down trees, help build, to be a war machine or just to entertain your villagers. They have wishes and you will can read them in a little ballon in his head.
You can take down enemys by force or by impressing them... if your city are big and powerful, your enemys or others neutral vilages will join your kingdom adding more citizens to you. Or you can just go to war, breach their defences and take their town center and win the control of the people. The units details are great and the wars are very frenetic and mortal. Use archers, warriors, catapults, or speels to take down the enemy forces and overwhelms them.
Black & White is a revolutionary game, and I can guarantee that it relieves many hours of good game and fun... just go ahead! ;)