Black & White, a game that was very innovative and a lot of people loved, even though it was filled with bugs and..
User Rating: 8.9 | Black & White PC
.. a lot of people have major problems trying to get the game to run, or stop the game from crashing. I had no problems with the game myself, it worked fine. The game was very innovative when it was released. Being able to choose your alignment, do you want to be a good god or an evil god? And as you choose your alignment, your creature and temple changes with it. If your good your tower is white with doves flying around the top. If your evil it turns to a dark colour, spikes grow out of it and bats fly around the top. You choose what creature you want and then you start to train him using leashes. Depending on if you want him to be good or bad, healthy or sick.. theres a lot you can do. For instance if you want him to not feel to good, get him to eat his own feaces or eat villagers. Or if you want him to be healthy teach him to eat fish and grain, and you can get him to help out villagers by getting them food, lumber etc. He can also cast miracles if you train him too. It doesn't take much to get your creature to learn. You can build them up, by getting your creature to pick up a boulder and walk around the island with it, building up his strength. Or you could get him to walk around picking up villagers and throwing them off cliffs. I actually really enjoyed the single player campaign, although it got quite hard towards to end. The early missions were a lot of fun, testing out things. Throwing boulders down hills into nearby villages to get belief is always fun. (Belief is needed to convert villages to your side). Burning down huts are also a lot of fun, although make sure they are your enemies, cause it's annoying trashing a village to have it believe in you and then you have to rebuild it so your influence grows. The game is a lot of fun, has a lot of features and when the game was released a lot of people loved it. It's a shame that so many people have suddenly turned around and say they hate the game. It's not as bad as everyone says. The missions were great, i loved how you always had options of doing to right thing or the wrong thing. Do you save the villagers drowning yourself? Do you get your creature to save them? Do you let them drown, do you get your creature to make them drown faster? Do you get your creature to save them only to then eat them.. you have a lot of choices. The missions are varied and are a lot of fun. There isn't much point getting this titles anymore, unless your wanting to try it out before Black & White 2 is released. The sequel will have a lot more features, including the ability to build armies and wage war. They announced a while ago they were going to make quite a number of Black & White titles, so there it's going to be interesting seeing what they do with the series.
