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Stephen Leyton
00/12/0000
Black & White
I once kidnapped a baby Kangaroo from Windsor Safari Park, It was a long time ago, but my sister and I picked it up and bundled it into the back of the car" Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios.
Black & White is quite possibly THE most anticipated game this year, Black & White gives the Player an opportunity to create a living creature which lives and works to your instructions. It will learn, feed, fight, and grow the way you want it to grow. Look at it as a 200 FT Tamagotchi (crikey where did they go?).
At the start of the game you go through a very simple sequence where you get dragged into the land through the prayers of its people. The land is called Eden, and before you arrive, it is a beautiful world, full of natural beauty and wonder. The little people who live there lead an idyllic life without war and discord. It soon becomes clear that there are also some animals with powers that allow them to grow to enormous sizes. The first creatures you come across are three that walkout of the forest: a tiger, a cow, and an ape. They all leap up trying to grab your hand icon, and you get to choose one of them. These three different species represent three classes of animals in the game â“ aggressive, passive and neutral.
"At one point you will discover a turtle farm, " explains Peter Molyneux. "Inside are two farmers with a problem. Their son has run off and they need him back. They pray to you and ask you for your help. Whatever way to chose to react, eventually you get one of the turtles in the farm, which is a special creature that leaps up at your hand. You can click on this creature and transfer the mind of the creature you currently have into the mind of the turtle. So you have the baby turtle and a 100-foot ape. When you transfer the mind, the ape shrinks down and the turtle grows up. And you see all these cuts appear on the turtle â“ where all the scars were on the original ape."
Another example of this was shown where a Woman comes out of her house, falls to her knees and starts to pray. Her brother is lost in the forest and she is asking for your help to save him. In this situation Peter Molyneux said what would you do? In a matter of seconds before anyone had the chance to reply, Peter picked up the woman in his hands and tossed her into the sea to drown. It goes to show that there is no set way to play this game, being a good god and helping the woman out may reward you with new spells and the villagers worshipping you with more favour. However being an evil god and leaving her to drown will increase the amount of worship as well as villagers will fear you as a god and will respect you more.
This is simply the greatest looking title in ages, having a creature that will love you for different reasons. And as Peter would say â wouldnât it be great if you could steal a baby lion or turtle from a zoo and take it home.
