The first couple hours this game is good, until you realize how boring and repetative it is.

User Rating: 7.8 | Black & White PC
By GaaraZanta | Review Date:
Black and white is a very appropriate name for this game. Some parts are really good then they become repetitive, boring and you then realize that you just wasted your time. I usually don’t rate games low, so when I do it says something about the game. I am almost mad and gamespot, for once, for giving a game that didn’t deserve it such a high score. If you want to get a couple hours of fun out of a game then go ahead and buy this, but I would advise you save your money and go buy a better game.
The gameplay for this game is fun for like 4 hours, then you get to the 3rd level, oh and just so you know there are only 5 levels in the whole entire game, the game breaks down. They take away your pet, who may I say is pretty stupid and just copies what you are doing, albeit in a very inconsistent manner and half the time just ends up doing more harm than good. Once your pet is taken away and you start with such a small village it is pitiful you then come to realize how much time of your life you just wasted. The villagers in this game are mindless, they can’t even make babies without you telling them to and when you do they always over breed. Also it is almost impossible to be a good god in this game, my people would always keep dying and they were to stupid to even farm right. The list of annoyances goes on, this is a lame attempt at being an RTS and it ends up falling flat on its face.
The graphics, for the time, were good, though the people in the game did look slightly odd. Also, I don’t know if it was my computer or the game, when you zoom into things, like moutians, they start to mold and change shape as you get closer, a very ugly effect that I never got used to. Other than that most of the spells worked fine and looked pretty good, though nothing was spectacular it was solid nonetheless.
The sound in this game is okay, though the first time one of your villagers die and you hear the deeeaaatthhh voice, it will take you a while to figure out what it is trying to tell you or whether it is another god speaking. The sounds for the people are really annoying and I would rather have text than hear them talk, wait till you hear or don’t hear the fake Irish accents, pain. Other than that the sound is solid, with the different spells having nice sounds to them, from the rain to the fireball.
Overall this game will not give you any lasting value, unless you find this sort of cheap imitation of the RTS formula any good then you might have some fun. Lionhead is a company that promises and doesn’t deliver and I hope in their next outings that they learn to make a great game then praise it.

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