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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?
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 :)
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.
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]
> My injuries.
> [URL]http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/7324/white20051013151209873om.jpg[/URL]
You've got an emo monkey.
Anyway, in the meantime let me tell you a little story.
One day, Nash's creature walks up to a villager's house and thinks "should I crap on that villager's house?". I slap him into a bloody slumber to tell him a firm no, however in his terror, he craps a couple out anyway.
Have a nice night.