Black & White was published by Electronic Arts in 2001.
Lionhead's first game was Black & White, a god game with elements of artificial life, strategy, and beat 'em up games. Lionhead started as a breakaway from the developer Bullfrog, which was also founded by Molyneux. This game came years before Minecraft, which made this style of game ("do whatever you want") more common and accepted.Lionhead Studios (also known as Microsoft Game Studios Europe) was a British computer game development company led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux, and acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Even being evil for a while gets boring fast. The campaign offers a handful of words to conquer and after that you don't know what to do else.
The only real downside (and that's why 9/10 and not 10/10) is that the game somehow lacks purpose. The game has an innovative system of casting spells (by drawing signs on the screen) which unfortunately doesn't work well - but you can also just use hotkeys for spells as well. You have 2 advisers (one good and one evil) who are funny and have a lot of character, especially the evil one. The graphics are great for the time and still look good, and you can fully zoom out to see the whole map on the screen. There are quests scattered over the world, with the most famous one being where you bring grain and a pig to sailors (I still remember their song: "We're not complaining but there is one more thing remaining: We're not going nowhere 'ntil we get some meat. The creature can fight with creatures of rival gods.
You can also choose to be an evil god, torture villages and let your creature eat them. With some training, your creature would even do all the forests/rain spells. Villagers tend to become lazy if you just give them food and wood, so it's better to create forests and rains instead, letting the villagers produce food and wood themselves. Astonishingly, the creature's AI is designed with so much plasticity that, with some patience, you can teach it to do very complex things like creating forests, fetching stuff and generally helping villagers a lot and taking most of micromanagement away from you. You also control a creature which you teach with rewards and punishments. Your goal is to capture the whole map and defeat rival gods. The more villagers pray to you, the greater your circle of influence on the map becomes. The more villagers pray to you, It's a highly innovative God-style management game where you help a small tribe to build and expand a village. It's a highly innovative God-style management game where you help a small tribe to build and expand a village.
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