If you liked Black and White you'll love Black and White 2. It even has military forces :) hehe. Wreak lots of havok! XD
Unlike any other games you control a hand in this game, yes a hand. Instead of scrolling such as in a typical strategy type game you have to hold on to the ground and pull your way across the level to see what's going on. Because you are a god you have tremendous power to do things, for example you can pick up boulders the size of a building and throw it at an unsuspecting enemy army, or even uproot trees and plant them elsewhere. Once you get further into the game you will come into possession of miracles. You can choose between good miracles (such as healing, water to irrigate crops, protection and things like that) or you can get chaotic destructive miracles (like fire and lightning, etc.).
In Black and White 2 you can still raise a pet as you could in the previous installments. In the beginning you choose your creature : a tiger, an ape, a cow (funnily enough) and a wolf. Now it's your choice how you wish to raise your pet, teach it to good, friendly, helpful and fun loving. Or you can just teach it to be mischievous, greedy, evil and cruel. Every once in a while your creature will have a thought (which appears as a blue text bubble above it's head), you can either pet it to tell it what it's thinking is good, or beat it to teach it not to do it. A few examples of what you can do is to make your creature eat your villagers, then uproot trees as a toothpick and even to take a dump on a nearby unsuspecting villager (not recommended, you have no idea what the size is of the faeces!). You can also raise your pet to be a war machine that will attack your opponents.
A new addition to the Black and White series is that you can now create armies to wage your battles. Armies even allow you to control them outside of your influence (the boundaries you have, which increases as more people worship you). You can also choose to take control of your opponents village so that you can gain even more influence. Completing objectives and other tasks will give you tribute, a kind of currency that allows you to purchase new skills, miracles, buildings, levels for your creature, etc.
There are several small new additions to the new Black and White, an example of this is the way in which you can control the time of day to your advantage. Black and White 2 has stunning graphics and spectacular game play, it will definitely keep you entertained for hours on end!