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Black and White 2 Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2003-01-22 00:00:00.0


Computer and Video Games.com has tossed up a preview on Lionhead Studios' upcoming Strategy/RPG title, Black and White 2. Here's some juice:

"Every living thing, from the sky to the sea, will change to reflect the type of god that you are. So if you're evil, you'll start to notice that the trees won't have blossoms on them. Instead they'll be all scary and spikey. Even your villagers will walk and socialise differently. Everywhere your creature walks they'll either leave flowers or vines depending on whether they're good or evil." And as if to prove it to me, Peter beckoned me towards the room's double doors. They swung smoothly open, revealing a room teeming with people, faces masks of concentration as they worked on the virtual jigsaw pieces they'd been assigned to compile for Peter's grand vision. And as Peter loaded up a creature, a giant ape, hair soft and flowing, I saw for myself the beauty of the new engine, the fluidity of the animation, augmented by effects so real, it was hard not to feel as though they were nature itself. As the ape lumbered from side to side, flowers sprang up where its feet had been mere seconds before. In a word, it was breathtaking.


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