Black and White Deluxe

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Choose the sharp-toothed Crocodile, the mighty horned Rhinoceros, or any of the creatures from the original game to act as your representative on Creature Island
• Your creature gains an apprentice and a pet as it is tasked with the care of the little tyke
• Your creature falls head-over-heels for the beautiful Eve and must win her favor by completing her labors of love
• Set off with your creature to explore the many wonders of Creature Isle and Graduation Island
• Teach your creature a variety of new skills, including bowling, building, and playing soccer

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000CE1IN
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,490 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Black & White Deluxe features Black & White and the Creature Isle expansion together in one great package.

Black & White

Black & White is a role-playing game unlike any other you've played before. You play the role of a deity in a land where the surroundings are yours to shape and its people are yours to lord over. Be an evil, malevolent god and the natives will worship you with fear in their eyes. Play as a kind, benevolent god and they will worship you with love in their hearts. Your actions decide whether you create a heaven or hell for your worshipers. Then select a creature from the land to act as your representative in the world. Raise it to gigantic proportions and teach it to do your bidding--whether the animal grows into an evil colossus of mass destruction or a kind and gentle giant is up to you. Progress through the game's rich storyline performing powerful miracles to battle other deities and become the world's supreme god.

Black & White Expansion: Creature Isle

When the missionaries from your land of Eden wreck on the coast of Creature Isle, you and your creature are suddenly called forth through the vortex to encounter the Brotherhood of Creatures, a collective of giants without deities. Explore new lands and win the worship of new tribes to expand your godly powers beyond your wildest dreams. Raise your creature to new heights and teach him all-new abilities as he completes the trials of the Brotherhood. In addition, your Creature gains an apprentice to raise as his own, and falls in love for the first time with the beautiful Eve. Only by successfully completing the challenges imposed by the Brotherhood and defeating their leader can you and your creature become the supreme rulers of Creature Isle.

Features:

• Two new creatures: choose the sharp-toothed Crocodile, the mighty horned Rhinoceros, or any of the creatures from the original game to act as your representative on Creature Island.
• An apprentice for your creature: Your creature gains an apprentice and a pet as it is tasked with the care of the little tyke. Teach it well and it will help your creature grow in power.
• Fall in love with the creature of your dreams: your creature falls head-over-heels for the beautiful Eve and must win her favor by completing her labors of love.
• Two new islands to explore: set off with your creature to explore the many wonders of Creature Isle and Graduation Island.
• New creature skills: teach your creature a variety of new skills, including bowling, building, and playing soccer.
• Learn new miracles: learn a host of new miracles, including speed and the defensive Cancel Creature miracle.
• New creature trials: in order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Creatures, your very own colossus must pass a series of challenges, including creature racing, dojo combat, herding, and king of the castle.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but a lot of work, March 13, 2005

By 

Jay "mmartin6924" - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Black and White Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I just recently got this game in preperation for B&W 2. When I first started playing it, I absolutely loved it and would have easily given it 5 stars. After playing it for a while, I got annoyed and overwhelmed at the micro management and would have reviewed it probably at about 2 stars. But now after getting used to it and 30 plus hours of play, I think 4 is right.

The game starts out with a very helpful tutorial that shows you the basic controls, how to cast spells, and taking care of the people. You later pick the creature you want and it helps you in training him and taking care of him also. After you get through that, you then go to a town where you will need to start your own civilization. This is where you may get frustrated because your people always need food, homes, children, and buildings. A smart thing to do is build plenty farms before bulding homes or children no matter how much they complain because eventually there will not be enough food in the few farms to supply the villige store (where the food and wood is stocked) so you will be constantly hovering over the store supplying food (very annoying). With the Deluxe version of B&W, it comes with several patches that fixes a ton of problems. One major issue that it will fix is that your wirshippers will not eat like horses any more so you will get to pay less attention to them. Install these before playing the game because it comes in as a HUGE help.

There are 2 things that kept me from giving this game 5 stars even after disliking it so much at first.

One is that it crashes every few times I play. Sometimes it will go for hours on end without a jitter but sometimes it will crash twice within 5 minutes. I am running it on a Windows 98 PC with 512MB RAM and an old NVIDIA Video card. The game is from 2001 so it does OK. I also installed it on my newer Dell PC that has 1.5 Gigs of RAM, Windows XP, and the newest ATI graphics card. I started an evil god on it and it has not crashed once. Some are saying that the game does not run on XP, but it does fine with me.

The second thing that kept me from giving 5 stars is the part of the game I am on now. I'm not going to say much to keep from ruining the game for some of you but this level of the game is really ticking me off. Every time I get a few buildings built they get burned!!! I dont have enough villigers to give me enough prayer power to constantly cast shield miracles because my people are getting stolen!!! I don't know what to do. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or not doiing something I should but it is really making me mad. Earlier in the game on another level, I had just gotten a big enough population to start to convert another village ( you have a realm of influence based on the amount of people that you have in your town. You connot do anything outside that realm. Therefore, the more people you have the bigger your influence realm will be). I was performing miriacles for them when I started hearing the word "death" and my conscience guy said that we were being attacked. I went back to my villiage and there was a lightning storm stricking my town center. Every time the lighting would hit it, it would catch on fire. My villiagers would run to put it out when another lighting bolt would hit, catching everyone around it on fire. They would die so more people would run to the fire to put it out and they to would be set aflame! It finally stopped dtorming but I ended up losing about 70% of my population with my influence realm very small again. After that I went to the setup menu in the game and downloaded the realtime weather that was happening outside my own home (it was snowing) so that did not happen again. This is a cool feature to use if you want to make the weather in the game be more realistic to what you are seeing out your own window.

This game has a very steep learning curve. It has a lot of micromanagement to deal with so you will never be sitting back watching things take place. I reccommend this game to one who has a lot of time and a ton of patience. So if you decide to get the game, have fun and good luck.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of a Kind, September 18, 2005

By 

shawn-m (bothell, wa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black and White Deluxe (CD-ROM)

While the graphics cannot equal those of upcoming Black&White 2's, they were ahead of their time and have aged very well. Some complain of a need to micromanage their creatures or townships and depending on what your personal goals are, this can be true. However the degree of management is up to the player and more noble, or ignoble, long-term strategies require more effort and attention to detail --as they should. Black&White will reward those who take pleasure in detail, the wheres, whys and hows, and will frustrate or bore those who are looking for a fast-paced romp.

It's rewarding to discover what actions precipitate which results although there are so many variables, important variables, that players would benefit from at least a little more comprehensive detail than the manual provides. Fortunately 3rd party websites still present an overwhelming amount of information to draw upon.

Some have trouble running Black&White and/or the Creature Island expansion on Windows XP. SP2, hotfixes, Athlon processors and nVidia cards are blamed (perhaps rightly so) for their trouble, but my system incorporates all of these elements and I've yet to experience the slightest problem. Be aware that the v1.3 patch is ONLY for use with the peripheral P5 glove. This patch WILL break the game if you don't have this glove. If v1.3 was inappropriately installed, download the patch uninstaller utility, use it and install patch v1.2 instead.

All in all, I give it five stars for invention, creativity, execution and standing the test (so far) of time.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars XP?This is how., December 30, 2004

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Black and White Deluxe (CD-ROM)

This game is very fun. To get it to run you should install these 2 things:Service pack 2 and Black and White patch 1.2. Also I would recomend on XP that you have 192MEGS of RAM instead of 64. Now the game: You play as a god. You quickly see a angel and monster hanging around that are your good and evil consinese. They provide some advice. Basiclly you help people or scare/kill them. You quickly choose from a creature.You can choose from a nurturing cow, a smart ape,and a strong tiger. No matter what creature you choose you will probally want to train it to be violent or peacefull. In the game you come across several sidequests. Yet later in the game you can learn miracles, which your creature can learn to. My 2 problems are: The creatures take forever to grow, and gestures(a way of casting miracles)are hard to cast.