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"Black and White 2"

So hey people, a thread about B&W2, seeing as it’s coming out soon and all that. The 7th of October apparently.

I know what most of us are thinking, namely that will they have fixed the massive problems that went with the original Black and White. I mean, I myself could never actually get past the 3rd island, you know, the rubbish one where your creature was taken away from you for no good reason, and you had to resort to lobbing stones at the nearby town in order to gain influence.

And the constant barrage of “We need more wood!” “We need more houses!” I’ll tell you what you need, alright mates? You need a good kick in the face.

But apparently they’ve fixed quite a lot of hat horrible stuff for the new one, plus the graphics are brilliant now. Oh, and your creature can get fat and hunch over and just groan at you, brilliant!

Screenshots [URL]http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/screenshots.html[/URL]

My personal favourites are these yokel ones:
[URL]http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/screenshots/lion_norse_town2_1024.jpg[/URL] Raarrgh
[URL]http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/screenshots/wolf_snowmountain_1024.jpg[/URL] Look at that one at the front, the wimp.
[URL]http://www.lionhead.com/bw2/screenshots/Battle.jpg[/URL] I’m gonna train all my little civvies to do that on command.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
OS - Windows 2000/XP
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent 1.6 GHz
Memory - 512MB RAM
Hard Drive - 3.5GB
DVD-ROM - 8 SPEED (PC CD-ROM version also available in USA)
Video Card - 64MB with 1.1 Pixel Shader*
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
DirectX - Version 9.0c
Input - Keyboard, mouse

Some more doodads.

[URL]http://pc.ign.com/articles/647/647694p1.html[/URL] Bit of a hands on preview shenanigan.

[URL]http://media.pc.ign.com/media/016/016987/vids_1.html[/URL] If you can be bothered have a look at that 33 mb one, its 6 minutes long and dun got loads of nice footage.

Review
[URL]http://pc.ign.com/articles/654/654547p1.html[/URL]

So aye, talk in here if you want, me and mikelar will, got it?

Doesn't tidy his room and slams doors?

Well thats the good version of the monkey i haven't tested what an evil version is like.

Chippxero wrote:
> My injuries.
> [URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/7324/white20051013151209873om.jpg[/URL]

You've got an emo monkey.

Some creature shots.

My creature when i got to the 5th land
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/9430/white20051013114856982ae.jpg[/URL]

My creature an hour later on the same level
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4327/white20051013142244390tb.jpg[/URL]

I decied to et him working out a bit for a fight.
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/6443/white20051013150232008ho.jpg[/URL]

Facing off against a tiger
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/5586/white20051013151041812do.jpg[/URL]

Me fase :(
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/5551/white20051013151044754jc.jpg[/URL]

This was the moment i turned the fight around, my monkey just went mad.
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/3755/white20051013151114788ze.jpg[/URL]

I knocked him to the ground then my monkey leaped on him and started beating the crap out of him. Those -2 hearts are the tigers health going down very quickly.
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/2319/white20051013151126317cz.jpg[/URL]

I tried to stop him but it was no good.
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/8638/white20051013151127269qv.jpg[/URL]

My injuries.
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/7324/white20051013151209873om.jpg[/URL]

Poor tiger - he died and i'm pretty sure i heard his neck snap
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/4797/white20051013151448158hy.jpg[/URL]

Poor tiger 2
[URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/1714/white20051013151527045if.jpg[/URL]

The combat in single player is over very quickly, one gorup of men and your creature can take out anything they send up to the 4th land, i haven't got any further yet and i expect it will get harder, but so far the most that have been sent against me was about 100 men which my big fluffy creature nailed on his own.

You can leave some towns to themselves after a while and there is a little icon that will flash if they want something badly so that you know when to go check on them.

I managed to do the first 3 lands with out leaving my town as all the other towns came to me and joined my forces as i went for impressing them rather than through warfare.

I get the feeling that they still haven't learned their lesson. I don't think I'll bother with B&W2 if they haven't removed all the stuff that was utter balls (constant micromanagement) and if the new things like combat etc are boring. What's the point? Lionhead are so disappointing.

Hasn't given me to the option to name it in single player, i guess they might in multiplayer, i had to patch teh game straight away which isn't a good sign but a common one these days for new games. there are a lot of bugs still in the game from the looks of it.

The only reason i bothered getting this was multiplayer :(

my monkey is white and has a huge hair style, he looks so innocent and angel like, then BLAM lighting and 20 dead guys :)

They said they're releasing multiplayer as a patch or something shortly after the release, because they wanted to work on getting the single player 'perfect' in time for release.

I'd prefer to get okay at the game in general before i went online to be honest. Obviously then I'd only hurl swarms of cows and pregnant women at the enemy walls anyway, but still.

Oh Chip, do you get to name your creature? I'd call mine Ugly or no_knees or Fina.

Chippxero wrote:
> Theres no multiplayer :(

Seriously? They let you build towns and a big monster and then not allow you to smash them together? That would be my first priority when making such a game:

"Hmmm, how can this be fun?"
"Let people smash monsters and towns together in a big, fun, fight?"
"No, I don't think so. Sack the multiplayer department, we'll just make them grind offline for no reason."

Seriously?

Buh, that would be the only reason to get the game, surely?

Theres no multiplayer :(