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It’s been over a week of almost solid play now (band and girlfriend and work rudely intrude now and then), so it’s been time to form a more solid opinion of this game.
Does it still rock? Does it still stun me with features and game-play? Oh yes indeedy.
Every time I play this thing, it still makes me glad I waited 3 years for this, unique touches and spins such as:
There’s a programme you can run in the directory called “Weather .exe”, and whenever you log on, for anything at all, it checks and downloads the weather patterns for your area.
Playing Sunday afternoon, raining in game, checked out the window and, sure enough, it was raining.
Simple little ideas that make this one stand head and shoulders above the rest of titles out there. You can configure your email account so that the villagers are named after your address book, and incoming email (when online) is notified by a villager telling you you’ve got mail.
And, this is the spookiest thing, it said my name last night.
I thought I was going mad, but I heard my name whispered. It has a database of names, and if yours matches one of them, occasionally it whispers your name at you.
Freaky.
Bobo The Chimp is now 16yrs old, has grown considerably and retains battle scars from early encounters. Took him on-line where he met Your Honour’s creature.
They saw each other, danced and laughed, then kissed and ran about together. Bobo does this a lot, he thinks he’s in Flashdance or something. He loves to poop in villages and throw it at children.
What else does Bobo do?
He still retains a pathological hatred of cows. I don’t know where he got this from, but they are his sworn enemy and he will spend ages tracking them down, smiting them with rocks, setting them on fire or just kicking them into the sea. When he then dances and laughs.
The big thing is how you decide to play.
Good or Evil, it doesn’t matter, you can get by either way.
I was good, aligned with the angels and being nice.
Until Island 2.
I was trying my best, but the villagers kept moaning “More food, more buildings, more wood” and wouldn’t shut up, wouldn’t leave me alone to get on with things.
So I visited my wrath upon them.
Sacrificed 3 kids and they stopped moaning for a while.
It’s amazing how seeing your children get offered up to the god (me) will make you think twice before complaining for things.
Bobo is still aligned with good, but my hand has become gnarly and reddish in colour, my temple more pointed and evil looking.
What can I say?
I had enough of the villager’s whinging and moaning, I’d done everything for them and they still weren’t happy.
So I killed some…well…lots of them.
And now they work faster than before with no complaints.
My monkey will happily feed them, water their crops etc, but if they start grumbling?
Into the sea with 5 or 6, a couple of kids into the sacrifice bowl and a fireball or two into the neighbouring village soon sorts that out.
I am a raging God of Wrath and Fury, but my how those minions toil for me.
It does make you feel powerful, to be able to pick one up and set him down to be a farmer, or throw him over the heads of the others to gain respect and worship.
Lovely.
So whilst Bobo continues his one-chimp mission of mercy, Goatboy hovers waiting for the 1st sign of dissent before unleashing a beatdown of Biblical proportions.
What a fantastic game.
Does it still rock? Does it still stun me with features and game-play? Oh yes indeedy.
Every time I play this thing, it still makes me glad I waited 3 years for this, unique touches and spins such as:
There’s a programme you can run in the directory called “Weather .exe”, and whenever you log on, for anything at all, it checks and downloads the weather patterns for your area.
Playing Sunday afternoon, raining in game, checked out the window and, sure enough, it was raining.
Simple little ideas that make this one stand head and shoulders above the rest of titles out there. You can configure your email account so that the villagers are named after your address book, and incoming email (when online) is notified by a villager telling you you’ve got mail.
And, this is the spookiest thing, it said my name last night.
I thought I was going mad, but I heard my name whispered. It has a database of names, and if yours matches one of them, occasionally it whispers your name at you.
Freaky.
Bobo The Chimp is now 16yrs old, has grown considerably and retains battle scars from early encounters. Took him on-line where he met Your Honour’s creature.
They saw each other, danced and laughed, then kissed and ran about together. Bobo does this a lot, he thinks he’s in Flashdance or something. He loves to poop in villages and throw it at children.
What else does Bobo do?
He still retains a pathological hatred of cows. I don’t know where he got this from, but they are his sworn enemy and he will spend ages tracking them down, smiting them with rocks, setting them on fire or just kicking them into the sea. When he then dances and laughs.
The big thing is how you decide to play.
Good or Evil, it doesn’t matter, you can get by either way.
I was good, aligned with the angels and being nice.
Until Island 2.
I was trying my best, but the villagers kept moaning “More food, more buildings, more wood” and wouldn’t shut up, wouldn’t leave me alone to get on with things.
So I visited my wrath upon them.
Sacrificed 3 kids and they stopped moaning for a while.
It’s amazing how seeing your children get offered up to the god (me) will make you think twice before complaining for things.
Bobo is still aligned with good, but my hand has become gnarly and reddish in colour, my temple more pointed and evil looking.
What can I say?
I had enough of the villager’s whinging and moaning, I’d done everything for them and they still weren’t happy.
So I killed some…well…lots of them.
And now they work faster than before with no complaints.
My monkey will happily feed them, water their crops etc, but if they start grumbling?
Into the sea with 5 or 6, a couple of kids into the sacrifice bowl and a fireball or two into the neighbouring village soon sorts that out.
I am a raging God of Wrath and Fury, but my how those minions toil for me.
It does make you feel powerful, to be able to pick one up and set him down to be a farmer, or throw him over the heads of the others to gain respect and worship.
Lovely.
So whilst Bobo continues his one-chimp mission of mercy, Goatboy hovers waiting for the 1st sign of dissent before unleashing a beatdown of Biblical proportions.
What a fantastic game.
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Yeah, it says 20th July on SR.
Hmmmm....I hope it comes out in July! What does it say on Special Reserve.........
I haven't played B&W either. My PC specs suck. I'm gonna get the Dreamcast version when it comes out in August.
Yeah, when you intially get B&W, you think
"Ok, so what?". YOu dont get the creature for about 30 mins, tasks to perform.
And when it does arrive, it's stupid and newborn.
Can't do anything.
But stick with it, it learns and functions on it's own.
It is worth perservering if you like radically different games. Not an immediate jaw-dropper, but it creeps up on you.
What's it about?
You are a God.
You have to take over islands by influencing other villages/temples with miracles, helping them out by assisting their lives.
And you have a creature to help. You can tell it to do everything, or once trained enough, leave it to get about itself and do what you want.
Total freedom in movement, action and gaming.
There are tasks, but you dont have to do them if you dont want to.
Rock.
"Ok, so what?". YOu dont get the creature for about 30 mins, tasks to perform.
And when it does arrive, it's stupid and newborn.
Can't do anything.
But stick with it, it learns and functions on it's own.
It is worth perservering if you like radically different games. Not an immediate jaw-dropper, but it creeps up on you.
What's it about?
You are a God.
You have to take over islands by influencing other villages/temples with miracles, helping them out by assisting their lives.
And you have a creature to help. You can tell it to do everything, or once trained enough, leave it to get about itself and do what you want.
Total freedom in movement, action and gaming.
There are tasks, but you dont have to do them if you dont want to.
Rock.
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> Someone please answer this question (and I know I work here and
> all), but is Black & White coming out on the PS2? I really want
> to play it but I don't do PC games. Let me know if you hear
> anything, all I know of at the moment is a PSone and Dreamcast
> version, and I think even a Game Boy version. How can they not
> release a PS2 version?
I'd be more surprised if their wasnt a PS2 version of the game, all things given...
However, the one too look out for is the X-Box version, which it seems is intended to incorporate a host of new features, add ons, story lines, etc.. essentailly being the daddy of B&W
> Someone please answer this question (and I know I work here and
> all), but is Black & White coming out on the PS2? I really want
> to play it but I don't do PC games. Let me know if you hear
> anything, all I know of at the moment is a PSone and Dreamcast
> version, and I think even a Game Boy version. How can they not
> release a PS2 version?
I'd be more surprised if their wasnt a PS2 version of the game, all things given...
However, the one too look out for is the X-Box version, which it seems is intended to incorporate a host of new features, add ons, story lines, etc.. essentailly being the daddy of B&W
Wòókiee Møn§†€R wrote:
I borrowed a friends copy of B&W to try it
> out. Have to admit, it *is* a good game as far as God-sims go, but
> it's not my 'cup of tea' and I got bored of it fairly
> quickly.
Theres been a lot of reviews saying that if you dabble with the game you'll probably get that impression...
And theres a lot of people of Amazon, etc... writing reviews saying 'I've played B&W for a few hours and cant figure out what everyone sees in it'
Apparently (and I've yet to play it, but from what I've heard) if you intend to stick at the game for a good few hours then suddenly everything clicks and you realise whats going on...
I borrowed a friends copy of B&W to try it
> out. Have to admit, it *is* a good game as far as God-sims go, but
> it's not my 'cup of tea' and I got bored of it fairly
> quickly.
Theres been a lot of reviews saying that if you dabble with the game you'll probably get that impression...
And theres a lot of people of Amazon, etc... writing reviews saying 'I've played B&W for a few hours and cant figure out what everyone sees in it'
Apparently (and I've yet to play it, but from what I've heard) if you intend to stick at the game for a good few hours then suddenly everything clicks and you realise whats going on...
I'm one of the few people who still hasn't played the game! :-(
PC specs are not up to the games requirements. If it does come out on the Ps2 i will get it. Am I the only one who hasn't played a "god sim"?
In brief, what is the game about?
PC specs are not up to the games requirements. If it does come out on the Ps2 i will get it. Am I the only one who hasn't played a "god sim"?
In brief, what is the game about?
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