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Black & White 2 PC
  • Publisher: EA Games
  • Release Date: Oct 4, 2005
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Metascore
75 out of 100

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User Score
7.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 53 Ratings

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  • Summary: In this real-time strategy sequel, you'll reprise your role as a powerful deity in search of a following and return to the once idyllic world of Eden, where the discovery of weaponry and warfare has tainted the beautiful landscape. With the help of your gigantic Creature that you raise from infancy, you must earn the respect and worship of the natives. How you choose to do that, whether through nurturing them or terrorizing them, is up to you.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 50
  3. Negative: 2 out of 50
  1. AceGamez
    100
    A shining triumph that looks and sounds as fantastic as it plays. It makes war fun, city building easy and your social life non-existent; but let's face it, do you really need friends when you're God?
  2. FiringSquad
    74
    There are a lot of little reasons to get Black & White 2, but none of them comes together with quite the synergy that would make them more than the sum of their parts.
  3. Computer Games Magazine
    40
    The cow is missing a lot of the inscrutability - and therefore personality - had in the last game. [Jan 2006, p.49]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 26
  3. Negative: 3 out of 26
  1. EmilHåkman
    10
    it's is a awsom game and ill stick with what Nick H. said about the critics. but ill think the game play is fantastic. ill found some majdor things that not shod have left the beta but it was fixed. anyway one of my first toughts was "hay man this is like a cross road betwen age of empire and B&W and you know what ill like this ides!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. KarlyleH.
    6
    fun game but to much of the same thing over and over.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. LuxM.
    2
    Its a love it or hate it case. I hated it. The game tries to be non-linear but it fails in that you have to do the same thing over and over again which lost my interest very quickly. On top of that add bad controls and long load times.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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