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With the recent release of Black and White by Lionhead, it really proves how far gaming has come since it started way back when pong was in fashion and millions of polygons and pixels couldn’t of been imagined. If they could see what Black and White is they would believe and be totally amazed. But really, its not the graphics of the game that makes Black and White, it is the intelligence that the game brings.
The game can show you weather you are thinking good or thinking bad and reflect that on the final outcome of many situations. One situation is the changing of the hand which represents your actions. If you are good then the hand will look much like yours or mine but, however, if you be evil to your villagers and create a fear in the land your hand will turn much like something you would see on a Halloweens night.
This showing of good and evil really can show you how you think. It may well show how we think for other games and in other situations away from our television screens or our PC monitors. But the thing is, in other games this is truly not seen anywhere but in ourselves, although we never seem to see it.
Think of how different you would be feeling and how different your actions would be on a gore covered First Person Shooter for example. Black and White is the first game to show how our actions can change the final outcome of the game and it is not exactly an 18 rated, gore infest of a title is it?
What I am trying to say here is that in Black and White, when our hand turns evil think how evil that hand would change if it were placed in another game.
So next time you play another game away from Black and White, think to yourself, what do I represent in this gaming world? What would it reflect on my hand if it were placed here? And does this show who I really am, in my inner self?
Post back some of your comments towards this or how you think your reactions change in other games.
Enjoy your games, Enjoy the future
Monkey With Attitude
With the recent release of Black and White by Lionhead, it really proves how far gaming has come since it started way back when pong was in fashion and millions of polygons and pixels couldn’t of been imagined. If they could see what Black and White is they would believe and be totally amazed. But really, its not the graphics of the game that makes Black and White, it is the intelligence that the game brings.
The game can show you weather you are thinking good or thinking bad and reflect that on the final outcome of many situations. One situation is the changing of the hand which represents your actions. If you are good then the hand will look much like yours or mine but, however, if you be evil to your villagers and create a fear in the land your hand will turn much like something you would see on a Halloweens night.
This showing of good and evil really can show you how you think. It may well show how we think for other games and in other situations away from our television screens or our PC monitors. But the thing is, in other games this is truly not seen anywhere but in ourselves, although we never seem to see it.
Think of how different you would be feeling and how different your actions would be on a gore covered First Person Shooter for example. Black and White is the first game to show how our actions can change the final outcome of the game and it is not exactly an 18 rated, gore infest of a title is it?
What I am trying to say here is that in Black and White, when our hand turns evil think how evil that hand would change if it were placed in another game.
So next time you play another game away from Black and White, think to yourself, what do I represent in this gaming world? What would it reflect on my hand if it were placed here? And does this show who I really am, in my inner self?
Post back some of your comments towards this or how you think your reactions change in other games.
Enjoy your games, Enjoy the future
Monkey With Attitude