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Black & White 2 (PC DVD) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1094
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Genre: fantasy-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows Me
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930047757
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Will you be an evil or benevolent deity? From the creative mind of God game developer Peter Molyneux comes Black & White 2. In this strategy sequel, you reprise your role as a powerful deity in search of a following and return to the once idyllic world of Eden, where the discovery of weaponry and warfare has tainted the beautiful landscape. With the help of your gigantic creature that you raise from infancy, you must earn the respect and worship of the natives. How you choose to do that, whether through nurturing them or terrorising them, is up to you.
The player will have many choices to make in Black & White 2. Once you and your creature have convinced the people that you are a God, you then have to decide if you are going to care for your believers, building them huge cities that are beautiful and safe, or if are you going to rule the land causing death and destruction by leading vast armies into battle.
You have a creature to do your bidding and train as you will, and you may rule over your people as you wish. This evolved creature can help you nurture their communities grow into huge, towering cities. Or you may use death, suffering, and fear. The creature has been massively advanced since the original Black & White, and now has a vital role as a military leader and command unit. He can learn strategies, lead armies into battle, and is the ultimate battlefield weapon himself, armed with many powerful new attacking and shielding Miracles.
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Other strategy games can give you control of armies, countries and even whole planets but there's only one that actually puts in the role of a god. Black & White 2 is the latest game from Peter Molyneux, creator of classics such as Populous and Dungeon Keeper, and once again it casts you as a god who draws power from the faith of your subjects in order to manipulate the world around you using various natural phenomena like lightning strikes and earthquakes. The original Black & White was criticised for lacking structure and direction and for fumbling one of its key features: the gigantic AI-controlled monster that worked as your corporeal representative in the game world. For this sequel though all these problems have been solved and the creature is now far more intelligent and able to work a lot more autonomously, although you will still be able to train him in specific tasks - such as leading an army or constructing buildings. The rather aimless structure of the first game has also been drastically improved upon, with a proper campaign mode with specific objectives. One area the original game never disappointed inn was the graphics, but Black & White 2 looks even more amazing than before, with hundreds of humans on screen at a time and amazing attention to detail such as your creature's fur becoming matted and damp in the rain. One of the most ambitious strategy games ever created, for fans of the genre this is manna from heaven. --David Jenkins
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 Epic July 23, 2010
Rai_Terra (UK)
I remember playing this a while ago and unfortunately lost my copy when I moved house. It's an awesome game where you can actually play god, I reccomend it to anyone and everyone who enjoy ancient style creation games!
such a wonderful game May 1, 2010
H. S. Ward (north east england)
this game is amazeing the idea of playing god alone is great and the many things that come with like decieding are you going to be a nice god and help the many poor little people in the world of carnage of pain or are you going to be a evil god and kill all who stand in your way and some who dont.
being able to throw your pets faeces at incomeing troop though realy sold this game to be it was one of those things that even at my age the idea that about 50 norse troop trained to kill are defeated by what appears to be a large pile of canine excrement which amused not as a casd point but how this game has been worked as whole,the game is a realy sided game black and white but not good and evil but smart and silly if you understand as you must do many things like work grain and resources worek out if you can afford wars with rivals and decideing what ethos your god is going to go by but you can also do very silly things that bring a smile to you and bring out the little boy with the magnifying glass
black &white 2 June 10, 2009
Kevin A. Napper (manchester England)
thanks alot cheaper than all the shops i went to. black & white is a very good pc game to play and to let people know that Amazon is one of the best places to go for cheap but very good priced games and now if i need anything i go first to Amazon. thanks k.napper
Depends on the person!! March 16, 2008
Mr. C. D. Illsley (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I may be the first to admit, but having played through the entireity of both Black + White games I found that although it has it's flaws BW2 really grew on me with time.
OK, so the actual gameplay was disappointingly short, but once you've completed it you can really appreciate the other things. The BEAUTIFULLY crafted landscapes. The sensual + brilliant soundtrack score. The pleasure of watching a villager progress from infant, to adult, to the retirement home.
Lionhead games have never really been about 'completing the game', they were about appreciating the little things along the way, but if you are the sought of person who blitzes through games just to get to the end then this isn't the sought of game for you.
 Why bother? February 3, 2008
Mr. Mark Wilkinson (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a game that I waited anxiously for while it was in development and remember there being a thriving community on the Lionhead forums in the build up to its release. The promise of the game prior to release was that it was an evolution of the first game, that did away with the annoyances of B&W1 while increasing the scope of the game by giving you greater control over the people who lived in your towns and cities. What actually happened as far as I can see, is that the mistakes that were made in B&W1 were repeated precisely, but more prettily.
In terms of good points, the game is pretty. I remember that at the time of release you needed a top of the range PC to run it, and the graphical attention to detail is commendable. However, all of the following criticisms of B&W1 are still valid:
1. Horrifically long-winded tutorial (admittedly it is skippable but you're missing a huge chunk of the game content by skipping it)
The tutorial is spread out over the whole of the first three lands, meaning that there's only a few lands that are actually played unaided.
2. Extrememly verbose Angel & Devil characters, that quickly become extremely annoying.
3. Creature intelligence. Maybe it'll take your preferences into account, maybe it won't. Even when I slapped the creature into 'never attacking enemy walls', I couldn't stop the creature from attacking enemy walls whenever it came across them.
4. My biggest criticism: The game becomes extremely repetitive very quickly. 'Impress' a village or take a village by force, repeat until you're attacking the enemies 'main' village. Win the land. Repeat.
If you thought B&W1 was a great game, then you'll probably love this. I got halfway across the second non-tutorial level and thought 'why bother?'
Life is short and as pretty as Black and White II is, it isn't entertainment. A massive disappointment.
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