Beautiful... Multiple ways to do things give me reason to repaly this over and over again...
The first thing I enjoyed was how easy it was to make a city. Just click and drag. I had a metropolis running in no time with many city already impressed and on thier way to join mine. I was able to get the villagers gather food, ore, and wood fast enough that I could focus on the main thing I think of when I think "Black & White", my creature.
The one thing I've always wanted to do was make my creature as tall as a mountain. In the old Black and White I was so focused on my city that my creature never reallly grew. This time though I was able to get it just right to be able to focus on making him big and strong. Although in the end I didn't focus on him enough to make him as big as some of the creatures I've seen, I did make him tall enough and strong enough to rip down walls quickly. I was also able to bend him to be very good or very evil in whichever way I pleased.
There are so many good things but I would jsut like to point out a couple of bad things first. I found the lack of multiplayer or skirmish moods disappointing. I figured it would have been fun battling other player armies and an intelligent player. I also found the lack of open ended gameplay after you won the land disapointing... I want some invading pirates or something to give me something extra to do! Also I thought the AI could have been alittle harder. It's easy to just beat down an enemy creature and a platoon with a well trained pet. Plus I think it would be nice if the creature would use more lightnign and fireballs when you ask it to attack a building.
That's all I got for ya...