Black & White 2 does godly expansion

By Staff, GameSpotPosted Mar 16, 2006 12:01 pm PT

[UPDATE] Lionhead brings Battle of the Gods to Black & White 2; PC add-on features a rival god. PC demo of B&W 2 now available on GameSpot.

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Gamers who have a bit of a god complex are about to get some new territory in which to throw their weight around. Electronic Arts today announced that Black & White 2 is getting its first expansion with Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods. The expansion will be developed by Lionhead Studios, the studio headed up by industry veteran Peter Molyneux, and will be released in April.

In Battle of the Gods, which EA describes as "darker" and "more sinister" than the game it adds to, players will return to the once-peaceful Eden, where a new force has been stirred up. The Aztecs, displeased with their defeat, have conjured up an evil deity through indiscriminate human sacrifices. As the game's name suggests, it's up to the player to duke it out with the new god and reconvert the infidels. As with other games in the series, how that task is accomplished, be it with benevolence or malevolence, is up to the player.

The nonbelievers will be beefed up with a new creature, two new armies, and a revamped artificial intelligence system. Other additional content includes two new lands, six new challenges, and four new miracles.

[UPDATE] Gamers who haven't yet had a chance yet to get their god on can sample Black & White 2 with a PC demo released by Lionhead today. The 632MB file lets players get their feet wet on one of the lands by giving them the ins and outs of building towns and using the terrain.

EA has not yet released pricing or rating information for Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods. For more information on the series, check out GameSpot's review of Black & White 2.

16 Comments

  • bladetarsai

    Posted Apr 25, 2006 6:49 am PT

    I cannot believe after all the complaints from the eager and loyal fans to add skirmish and multiplayer, and after the hard facts that this is one of the main things people loved in the first one, they still decide to ignore it

  • Matezza

    Posted Apr 1, 2006 4:06 am PT

    It is a good game but i feel that in some ways it is to easy. before u had to work to get things done in the game now all u do to build is hold ur mouse over a building and click. and i feel that many of the things u get points for are too impersonall. i want more chaklenges like the missionaries from the first game

  • Da_FluFF

    Posted Mar 29, 2006 6:12 pm PT

    This was a good game but it was basically a once or possibly twice playable game before it got boring as there is no skirmish and no multiplayer and only one set campaign.

    I believe its extremely wierd that they are ignoring multiplayer as this is now a basic standard for all RTS games.
    Give me Multiplayer!!!!!

    or my money back :S ?

  • AbuSharkas8

    Posted Mar 20, 2006 12:05 pm PT

    i like this game

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 2:15 pm PT

    This is awesome I love this game I am more of a fan of the first one but the second is good too.

  • Ahiru-San

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 1:19 pm PT

    ya, and i hope this adds a skirmish mode...

  • benifit0fadoubt

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 1:02 pm PT

    i hope this game fixes some of the problems of the original

  • mach-stem

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 12:53 pm PT

    B&W2 isn't boring. Comments like yours are, however. I had tons of fun playing it, not sure why you would think it's boring. PEACE

  • Phantom_2003

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 12:21 pm PT

    i thought B&W 2 would be tossed aside, not given an expansion... what are they thinking?

  • carabetta

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 12:18 pm PT

    You are right hondje89, and now i know that with no multiplayer support, this expansion wont be something to be worth of buying.

  • deadone1000

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:35 am PT

    I thought they would add multiplayer aswell, maybe if they did it from the start the game would of fared much better, but for some stupid reason they thought multiplayer would suck.. even tho it was developed since they kept mentioning them using it.

  • gameloverx

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:20 am PT

    Cool guess i'll check it out when it comes out

  • Calkaimainer

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:16 am PT

    Wait....I thought it would add Multiplayer!
    I mean BATTLE OF THE GODS!?!?

  • Hondje89

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:11 am PT

    Yawn... B&W2 is such a boring game... B&W is better, by far...

  • mach-stem

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:04 am PT

    Awesome! I'll buy it! Was waiting for the patch to get rid of that annoying thumping noise, so I think I will start playing it again! PEACE

  • Donkeljohn

    Posted Mar 16, 2006 11:02 am PT

    Black and White 2 was one of my favorite RTS/god games. I'm glad to see Lionhead supporting it.

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