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(More customer reviews)I just recently got this game in preperation for B&W 2. When I first started playing it, I absolutely loved it and would have easily given it 5 stars. After playing it for a while, I got annoyed and overwhelmed at the micro management and would have reviewed it probably at about 2 stars. But now after getting used to it and 30 plus hours of play, I think 4 is right.
The game starts out with a very helpful tutorial that shows you the basic controls, how to cast spells, and taking care of the people. You later pick the creature you want and it helps you in training him and taking care of him also. After you get through that, you then go to a town where you will need to start your own civilization. This is where you may get frustrated because your people always need food, homes, children, and buildings. A smart thing to do is build plenty farms before bulding homes or children no matter how much they complain because eventually there will not be enough food in the few farms to supply the villige store (where the food and wood is stocked) so you will be constantly hovering over the store supplying food (very annoying). With the Deluxe version of B&W, it comes with several patches that fixes a ton of problems. One major issue that it will fix is that your wirshippers will not eat like horses any more so you will get to pay less attention to them. Install these before playing the game because it comes in as a HUGE help.
There are 2 things that kept me from giving this game 5 stars even after disliking it so much at first.
One is that it crashes every few times I play. Sometimes it will go for hours on end without a jitter but sometimes it will crash twice within 5 minutes. I am running it on a Windows 98 PC with 512MB RAM and an old NVIDIA Video card. The game is from 2001 so it does OK. I also installed it on my newer Dell PC that has 1.5 Gigs of RAM, Windows XP, and the newest ATI graphics card. I started an evil god on it and it has not crashed once. Some are saying that the game does not run on XP, but it does fine with me.
The second thing that kept me from giving 5 stars is the part of the game I am on now. I'm not going to say much to keep from ruining the game for some of you but this level of the game is really ticking me off. Every time I get a few buildings built they get burned!!! I dont have enough villigers to give me enough prayer power to constantly cast shield miracles because my people are getting stolen!!! I don't know what to do. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or not doiing something I should but it is really making me mad. Earlier in the game on another level, I had just gotten a big enough population to start to convert another village ( you have a realm of influence based on the amount of people that you have in your town. You connot do anything outside that realm. Therefore, the more people you have the bigger your influence realm will be). I was performing miriacles for them when I started hearing the word "death" and my conscience guy said that we were being attacked. I went back to my villiage and there was a lightning storm stricking my town center. Every time the lighting would hit it, it would catch on fire. My villiagers would run to put it out when another lighting bolt would hit, catching everyone around it on fire. They would die so more people would run to the fire to put it out and they to would be set aflame! It finally stopped dtorming but I ended up losing about 70% of my population with my influence realm very small again. After that I went to the setup menu in the game and downloaded the realtime weather that was happening outside my own home (it was snowing) so that did not happen again. This is a cool feature to use if you want to make the weather in the game be more realistic to what you are seeing out your own window.
This game has a very steep learning curve. It has a lot of micromanagement to deal with so you will never be sitting back watching things take place. I reccommend this game to one who has a lot of time and a ton of patience. So if you decide to get the game, have fun and good luck.
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