Black and White 2
I played Black and White 2 a bit this
weekend.
I didn't care for the original
Black and White. While the game concept -- you're a god who can choose to be
good or evil while leading his people -- was interesting, I found the user
interface for navigating the 3D world extremely
cumbersome.
B&W2 improves on this
(slightly) by utilizing the third mouse button (the scroll wheel) for rotation.
Moving around wasn't quite as difficult -- though I would enjoy the game about a
thousand times more if it was 2D,
top-down.
I sat through the title
screens and intro, and then played through the lengthy tutorial. Alas, when the
game progressed to the first scenario, it crashed. When I relaunched, it wanted
me to go through the tutorial again -- and there was no way to skip it. Ouch!
I was going to give up on the game right there, but first I checked the net for
a patch. Sure enough, they'd had a few complaints, and the 1.1 patch allowed
one to skip the tutorial.
After the
patch, while I did manage to skip some things, it wasn't nearly as quick as I
wanted to get back to where I was. Eventually, though, I made it to the first
scenario, which involved converting several villages to my
cause.
It took some time to do so, and
frankly didn't seem that interesting or fun. But heck, I'm learning, and it's a
big game. Eventually I progressed to level 2 -- or tried to. Once again, the
game crashed, and when I restarted it wanted to start me over again at the
beginning of the first scenario.
I
don't get paid enough to slog through it twice. The
end.
Disappointing.
Maybe
I'll give it another try after a few more patches come out.
Filed Mon - October 17, 2005, 07:52 AM in
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