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    Black & White

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Mar 25, 2001

    A highly ambitious real-time strategy game, Black & White casts players in the role of a newborn god responsible for cultivating a loyal following of human worshipers and interacting with a sophisticated artificial intelligence in the shape of a large anthropomorphic animal.

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    A Game For The Gods 0

    Black and White is essentially a strategy god sim with some tie-ins with Populous, a game also coming from the mind of one Peter Molyneux. But the similarities might just as well end there, from the interface to the complex Artificial Intelligence, it is safe to say it is different from pretty much everything out there.  The setting is simple: you're playing god and it's your task to convert as many nonbelievers to your cause as possible, and in turn, gain power. You can play a good god or a b...

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    An Ambitious Experiment 0

    Few game developers have résumés as diverse as Peter Molyneux, current Creative Director of Microsoft Games Europe. A few games early in his career made waves critically and commercially—Populous and Dungeon Keeper spring to mind—but he did not truly blossom as an auteur until he founded Lionhead Studios.The first game out of Lionhead, Black & White, was to be Molyneux’s most ambitious title to date. In fact, I might argue that it is still his most ambitious game, which is saying something a...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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