Black & White 2 [eurogamer review]

RE*AC*TOR

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61124

apparently its crap... bit dissapointing

tba

The first one was revolutionary and thus overated. Is everyone erring on the side of caution this time?

I don't know, I'm just skeptical. For the record I liked alot of the first game.

super_furry

Lionhead are struggling a bit creatively recently. It seems that they're so happy with the 'clever' core concept behind a game that they don't flesh the rest of it out enough. Fable, I'm looking at you.

tba

Fable wrote:

Don't Look at ME!

I was gonna get that game

super_furry

I wouldn't rule it out per-se, and apparently the new PC version has a lot more to it than the anaemic Xbox version, but again it seemed that they spent so much time on the little details – like getting a haircut – that they neglected the main game.

CodeMonkey

super_furry wrote:

Lionhead are struggling a bit creatively recently. It seems that they're so happy with the 'clever' core concept behind a game that they don't flesh the rest of it out enough. Fable, I'm looking at you.

Fable wasn't made by lionhead.

tba

CodeMonkey wrote:

Fable wasn't made by lionhead.

Im pretty sure it was big blue box did co develop though.

Branoic

That B&W2 review by Eurogamer was pretty funny. IGN's review seems to be a good bit more favourable though. Still waiting for Gamespot to get their review up......

mcgovern

I really loved B&W, though it did get a bit boring after awhile.
I think it was the last level? I was stuck on for ages and just gave up.
The main problem for me was once all the hacks and Sandbox levels came out, it took all the fun of teaching your creature out.

Ri_Nollaig

wow looks like i might have saved some money... was going to get it this friday.
tbh i expected this back when i bought black and white 1 the day it came out too, over the huge hype and right from the start it just had too many things in it that annoyed me, looks like a repeat then.
still great idea for a game heres hoping for black and white 3 to fix all the problems

my only hope for lionhead now rests in the movies, but im not holding my breath on that either.... :mad:

Steven

Don't worry Peter, I still love you. I've loved you since the beta patch for B&W came out. Don't do to me what John Romero did to thousands of others

Sidane

Yeah B&W 1 was all hype and ultimately very little substance. I got bored very quickly. I don't expect much better from B&W 2.

Zillah

I think there's an important distinction to make with B&W1. It was absolute genius, what a great idea, very well done. However, it wasn't very much fun.

Zapp Brannigan

I usually tend to disagree with Eurogamers review. But seeing as how I doubt im getting a review copy myself I'll have to buy it and judge for it on my own.