Their goal is to bring you a game with almost infinite choice and personalised gameplay, yet one with instant accessibility too. A tall order indeed, even for this pair. The game will mould itself to you, depending on how aggressive or peaceful you are.
Your role is to play as the god of the Greeks, a people on the knife-edge of annihilation, forced to flee their homeland by the barbaric Aztecs who are led by power-hungry high priests intent on world domination. Cast out to sea with the remnants of your race, you embark on a voyage to 12 beautiful and diverse islands populated by the Norse, Japanese, Egyptians - and of course, the bastard Aztecs. Your reaction to this neargenocide will be completely up to you. If you want, you'll be able to follow the path of 'good' and concentrate on building up a thriving metropolis.
In doing so, you can have Helm's Deep-like defences, full of vast buildings and farms, and let the game and the enemy come to you. On the other hand, you can just go out and reap your revenge on the jfc enemy by building huge armies and waging all-out war.
But more on wars and battle tactics later, as our tour begins with a visit to the physics department. This is the one area that Peter Molyneux believes - more than any other - will shape the game and allow you to do things you've only ever dreamed of. As with its predecessor, you'll control your on-screen actions via a giant omnipotent cursor-like hand, which use to pick up and manipulate any object in the world and cast a devastating array of spells.
The gameplay mechanics of that are almost infinite. This new physics system doesn't just apply to objects interacting with each other correctly, it also applies to their interaction with heat, light and water". Folding like a fat man punched in the gut the container collapses, ceramic splinters cascading to the floor, their descent merged with tumbling rocks and pebbles which ricochet off each other and scatter wildly across the ground. He repeats the process, again and again, each time the result different.
This means that the ones at the bottom are either crushed or drowned, and when you break it open, they all fall out correctly depending on whether they're dead or alive, wet or dry. Peter continues: "You can be as destructive or creative as you wish. You can stack things, quickly and easily. You could create a barrier out of rocks and wood or any other object in the land, or make a giant seesaw with a plank and a stone, then put a rock on one end to make your own makeshift catapult.
Studio head Jonty Barnes interjects with an idea that came to him in a dream, in which he defeated Peter in a multiplayer game by freezing all his troops, then shattering them with rocks. Peter looks impressed and makes a mental note, an example of the everevolving and open-ended development process that he both preaches and allows his team to practice.
While the two jokily discuss their multiplayer prowess, Chris loads up a new level with a towering wall arching majestically across a valley floor. Once again he picks up a boulder, and tosses it at the structure. But the wall holds firm. Instead, the rock shatters, its razor-like splinters dropping impotently to the grass.
But it's time to move on and Peter and Jonty, now seriously considering the shattering troop idea, lead us on to another section of desks at the other end of the office. They're both clearly very passionate about their work, and on seeing us are already jockeying for position to be the first to show off their work.
On Anton's monitor, a titanic battle is unfolding between a gargantuan lion and a grey-haired wolf. The creatures, circling each other warily at first, suddenly spring into action, rolling along the ground as they battle for the upper hand. Their momentum slows and the regal lion is pinned to the floor by the now rabid wolf, which is viciously lashing out at its trapped prey, filling the air with a maelstrom of hair and skin with a barrage of ripping blows. But Peter wants to talk about the creatures' other abilities first, so Anton's demonstration will have to wait.
Now you'll be able to see a list of things it's done recently, and punish or reward it accordingly - even if it's done the deed ten minutes ago.
Peter's in his stride now, furbishing me with golden nuggets of information on the subject of creature training, detailed enough to fill three previews. Here are the highlights. First off, there's 'the leash of mimicking'. You do a task, it does a task. Your creature can also learn by watching your behaviour, then act autonomously when it deems certain tasks need doing.
Your villagers run low on the game's only resource, ore, so it'll help to gather more. And if its actions satisfy you 'Oh Mighty One-Handed One', then you can place rewards in its all-new creature pen. With Anton and Sebastian wanting to show us more, Peter is called away to an important call and Jonty takes over the tour, urged by his departing boss to tell me about the final new way of teaching your beast. These teach your creature specific things, so you don't have to.
These may vary from building a wall, repairing buildings or military tactics, such as using archers on high ground when it leads your armies. Back to Sebastian, who's keen to show us his creation, a monkey. Presented on the screen before me is a giant ape, rotating.
He shows off its bumpmapped textures, pointing to the leathery, horn-studded back of the maniacal creature that looks one banana short of a bunch. I stare in disbelief, but with time running short, we have to move on again.
Looking up, he scrabbles to his keyboard to show us how he's putting theory into practice. Watching from above, they look like tiny dots, an army of ants, not a group of baying soldiers. As if sensing my trepidation, Matthew explains how you keep track of whose troops are whose. Ranks of red bubbled formations surge towards the thin, green bubble-enwrapped column on the hill, slowing slightly as they hit the incline, their wedged set-up cutting deep and scattering the defenders. Zooming into the action, we can see the massacre up close: individually modelled soldiers are scrapping for their lives as their swords cut into flesh and send out a cacophony of screams from the straining speakers.
However, just like the fallen, we've run out of time. It's six o'clock and Jonty, Peter and the rest of the team still have five hours of work ahead of them. Their tireless and undying dedication to the job, a labour of love, a way of life, clearly paying off from the results I've seen.
As I bid my farewells, it's hard not to be impressed. Time, as ever, will tell. The Optimum strategy is to have one man to five women, laughs Peter Molyneux. Our absolute objective was for people not to have to use the keyboard for anything, unless you're a very advanced player, continues Molyneux. One of the really nice things is that you can hear your opponent thinking," continues Molyneux.
He'll look at your stuff and say, Ah, you've built lots of houses - you're going to create an army! You interact with the world, as in the first game, with a ghostly hand of god, that's used to doing everything from the placement of buildings and roads, to picking up poor townspeople and flinging them viciously across the landscape to a painful death.
However, you can only affect the area inside the green circle of influence around your town centre, that expands or retracts based on how many people believe in your godly existence. If you need to check on the stats of your individual minions, all you do is move your hand over them and a list of info pops up displaying their wants, needs and happiness, allowing you to make informed decisions - which is obviously quite important for an omniscient being.
At the beginning of the game, food and shelter are the most important items, but that changes as your people become more sophisticated. However, to ensure your population keeps expanding, you need to manage the two resources of wood and ore. These holy places are where you can conjure up magic spells - such as Water - that can either be poured for watering crops, putting out fires or thrown for more aggressive water bomb attacks. Eventually you can earn epic spells, including Volcano, that when cast on an enemy town, violently erupts out of the ground, spectacularly hurling molten rocks into the air and spewing white hot lava over defenceless buildings and people.
That's always my favourite part," says Molyneux, casting spells and toasting the enemy. You can choose between an ape, a cow, a lion or a wolf, and in the new game, the animal is hugely more intelligent. There is now a sliding scale between pet where he'll do whatever he wants , gatherer where he'll collect resources for you , and robot where he'll obey without question - useful for the army.
Training and teaching the animal is easy - you can punish the creature by slapping it if it does something wrong, or reward it by stroking gently if it pleases you. You can use an army for defence and that's good. Everything changes visually too. With a release mooted for autumn, let's just hope Peter Molyneux can tear himself away from those five women to finish it I've Just Thrown Suzy Wallace from atop a cliff edge, watched placidly as her body bounces sickeningly off every jagged protrusion on the way down, heard her scream with terror as she plummets to the ground below and seen her land in an unnatural slump at the foot of the rocks, dead.
Then for good measure, I've chucked her lifeless body on top of a burning altar and looked around for the barbecue sauce. I'm an evil god and she displeased me with her lack of humility. Alternatively, in another saved game time stream, I set her to work in my forests, then rewarded her efforts with a lovely home to rest within, a thriving community to mix with and a sturdy army and solid wall to protect her.
Then I fed her to my giant monkey pet. I don't do good. We've also been given the chance to star in the game, along with just about every other member of the gaming press as well as the names in your Outlook Express address book. So yes, now you too can make Will Porter a sex-crazed breeding machine, or put Jamie Sefton to work in his natural home down t'pits.
Following the at this stage unstoppable tutorial sections - covering basics such as camera control, peasant interaction, rock throwing and pet abuse - and several lifetimes worth of "oohing" and "ahhing" at the prettiness of the graphics lovely water effects - it was our first real taste of game action and Well, er, it's a bit Age Of Empires really. I mean, good and all. Lovely to look at and oozing clever little touches, but still sticking to the villager-exploiting, resource-gathering template set up so many years ago.
Fucking EA. Bulla 4 points. I loved this game, everything is working great with the fanmade patch! Except one thing Batflap 1 point. I'd been playing for a couple hours with 1. It crashed once when I hadn't saved it so I had to go through the tutorial gain but hey. But just now it crashed and my savegames close the game when I try to load them? I've tried running on compatibility modes, lowering graphics, re-installing etc.
Geo 0 point. I have downloaded and installed the fan patch. Arctic0ne 1 point. IIRC there was some additional code in the v1. If you would like to play the original 1. Prate 0 point. This helped me at the moment. Just at the third mission of Tutorial with the small villages.
Anon 1 point. Nomad 2 points. Thats for uploading the files. Now theres one problem with the game that keeps me from playing. Right after executing the. My screen just turns dark as if maximizing just to throw me right back to the desktop. Anyone having the same issue and knows a trick to fix this? Froot 0 point. Ageing issue still happens, kids and like 20 adults. Any fix for this? Tamatumi 1 point.
Scrumpet 0 point. JJ 0 point. I just installed it exactly the way EmmaDeeb explained it and it works perfectly. Thanks for this. Children not growing up is the game's anti-piracy protection you need to install the fan patch to disable it.
I believe that this image is corrupted. I downloaded it three times and none of my attempts at installing it have worked so far. I keep getting a CRC error at the end of the install. Bw3WillBeIndy 0 point. Sarah -1 point. Lankaster -1 point. KRB 2 points. I keep getting the CRC error too at the end of installation! Something about a file with audio and dialogue. Getting a CRC error during setup is not related to a problem with the download. Joshua Ward -3 points.
I hope this helps. Mavsy 1 point. Help 4 points. Michael 1 point. ROB 2 points. Majora 3 points. Game ran fine for a couple of days, but now it suddenly won't load up- it goes to load into the save and then crashes and exits.
Is there a way to change it in some files? Year 2 points. UnclePotato 0 point. THank you. Ali 0 point. Neo 1 point. This site made me remember the old times! Specially when my conection was by dial-up, men seriusly, upload it to mega o something, 4 hours to download 3. Jason 2 points. KANEK 1 point. Just updating people on the fix for my problem mentioned below. Turns out my antivirus was preventing the game modifying its own files, causing a crash on loading.
Hope this helps other people play this awesome game! KANEK 2 points. Hi, I'm having an issue with the game. All instructions have been followed as detailed in the comments yet when I start the game up, it all works until I select 'New Game', once I've done that it will load for around 5 seconds and crash.
All patches have been applied and I'm tearing my hair out as to why it won't work. Any help would be much appricated. Crash 3 points. Anon 0 point. Make sure you set the white. Win XP works for me. Chedda 4 points.
But the game will not launch. It will briefly pull up a small screen but before I can see what it is or what the thumbnail, it disappears. TMP If not what do I need to do? Just replaced the whte. May Lemonade -1 point. I did the first installation, when i come to do the in-game instalation, i enter serial, the download stop right after he start loading in the data. My compter said it has been corrumpted. Files is missing. Suspendu -2 points. Sarn0x 0 point.
Sammy 0 point. Sammy 2 points. I've followed the steps and have gotten the game working, but my children will not age. I know this is due to the version not being cracked, but I am curious if there is anyway to fix this with the files from this site?
Flying Kites 3 points. Yo Akshay, language options are at installation. Hey, anyone get an error during installation - with the screenshots of the game displaying - about some kinda file "speech. I just clicked ignore and the installation completed. I'm further going to attempt to patch it, 1. Wish me luck! Akshay 1 point. Romulo 13 points. Hi, I've been having a lot of trouble downloading this game. Isn't there a way around this? REBUG 26 points. I've downloaded this twice now and I keep getting a CRC error right at the end of install.
Can anyone provide a hash for this ISO? It's bizarre for a site that offers abandonware it doesn't give people a way to verify downloads. Benji -1 point. Right, so downloaded and got it to run, but I can't make any disciples so it's unplayable. Any ideas on fixing this? How do you fix children? Atm I'm just burning them for mana. Nothing else to do with em. I use Nurseries to round them up and mass-sacrifice them.
I'm forced to be evil cuz I need ore mineworkers and cba to wait for worshipers to generate it normally. I'm now also on the Japanese island, so my worshipers need to charge my Wonder. I use Siren Wonder just to get more people. It's playable but damn this is difficult. Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I have an error installing black and white 2 in windows This thread is locked.
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