Customer Reviews

Black & White Platinum Pack

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I would love to give a review of this game's fun dynamics between playing a spiteful or benevolent god, but I can't. The reason for this is because the game continually has problems running. When I first received the game for the holidays I was ecstatic as I had explicitly asked for it! I went to install it that night on my Mac OS X.3.7 Titanium Powerbook. Well, before the game was even finished installing I received an error when I tried to insert the second (or "data") installer disc. So, feeling very disappointed I emailed Feral Interactive (the company that translated Black & White over to Mac) and reported by problem. I heard back fairly quickly that this was a known issue and I would be sent a new copy of my game.

I sat back and waited four weeks for it to arrive from England, and when it did I rushed to install it, of course! So the installer program ran flawlessly, but the update patch (1.1.9) wouldn't function. It tried to search my hard drive, but the little colorwheel spun on into eternity and my installer bar never moved an inch. Well, being a daring girl I tried to run my freshly installed game without the update patch, and to no surprise there were problems. Perhaps these are the problems addressed in the patch, but I suppose I'll never know as the patch won't install itself.

My incredibly low rating has something to do with the crushed anticipation I felt each time the game failed to run. I am sure that had I been able to actually play my score would be much higher. Obviously not all Mac users are experiencing this problem, but here's my word of warning before you buy.

The fact that this is a DVD not a CD meant I couldn't play it on my old iMac even tho' all other system requirements were met! Advertising it as a CD-ROM is misleading!

This could be a very cool game -- being a baby god, working your way up the hierachy by ignoring or embracing your conscious, helping people out, and getting a potentially powerful avatar. However it works best with a two-click mouse yet refuses to work with my new microsoft one. Relying on the traditional iMac mouse makes playing the game difficult and frankly I want to play computer for the fun not for added stress. Feral should really check into these problems.