Fun for a few hours, but no replay. I regret buying it.

User Rating: 6.3 | Black & White 2 PC
By Eskouster | Review Date:
I typically love strategy games, from Civilization to AoE and Warcraft, to C&C and Caesar and Populous. But this one kind of sucks.

It's fun for a few hours, because the hand system is innovative and very neat. You can do everything with just your hand (controlled by your mouse), which get s you into the world. Most of the information can be seen visually (piles of grain, ore, number of people), so interface is minimal, which is neat.

But every mission is pretty much the same, especially if you build up through good. You just build and build and build and wait for your impressiveness to be high enough to take over all the other towns. Not very exciting.

No multiplayer or 'random map' that I'm aware of, so honestly, once you played the first two missions, it's the same from there on out.

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