Jan 10, 2016 In the game, the player takes the role of a god called from the void (nothingness) to help those who invoked them. However, the player is not an omnipotent style god, but rather a god who rises and falls with his believers and the player must help develop their nature according to their good. Jun 20, 2014  Black & White 2 also touts improved graphics and miracle effects, weather systems, the ability to to tap resources and disciples, and advanced city building and wall construction. Add to that the option to command huge armies and Black & White 2 promises to be.

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Matthew Wiggins, chief army programmer at Black & White Studios has his head buried in a book called The Art Of Warfare On Land, brow furrowed in a state of absolute concentration. He's been reading the text for months, painstakingly dissecting each page, every diagram of war and subtle battlefield formation, before attempting to translate them into game code.

His dedication to perfection and accuracy is an embodiment of the ethos at the studio, a 43-strong team working 12-hour days (16-hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays) - each an essential cog in this creative machine of game development. The collective aim is to produce one of the most ambitious titles in history, god-game-come-RTS, Black & White 2.

Matthew's desk is our last port of call in an exclusive tour of studio and game, a journey led by gaming legend Peter Molyneux and studio head Jonty Barnes. During our stay, we visit every nuance, subtlety and groundbreaking idea within the studio's epic vision, in the process revealing a game of huge potential. If all of its ambitious visions are realised, Black & White 2 could well change the face of strategy gaming forever.

Anew Beginning

But back to now. Still far from finished, B&W2's distinct parts are already melding into a potentially breathtaking whole of revolutionary physics, graphics and freeform gameplay. Mistakes were made with Black & White - the epitome of a flawed masterpiece - and Peter and Jonty, in their determination to right these flaws, are listening ceaselessly to the views and opinions of the B&W community. Their goal is to bring you a game with almost infinite choice and personalised gameplay, yet one with instant accessibility too. A tall order indeed, even for this pair.

B&W2's fabric, its very essence is based upon cause and effect, with every action creating a reaction. As Peter explained before we began our tour: 'The core of B&W2 is for the world to change to reflect what you're like, and to look after your people and creature. The game will mould itself to you, depending on how aggressive or peaceful you are.' Even how you choose to treat your people will decide what kind of god you become and which paths you ultimately tread.

Blessed Are The Greeks

Your role is to play as the god of the Greeks, a people on the knife-edge of annihilation, forced to flee their homeland by the barbaric Aztecs who are led by power-hungry high priests intent on world domination. Cast out to sea with the remnants of your race, you embark on a voyage to 12 beautiful and diverse islands populated by the Norse, Japanese, Egyptians - and of course, the bastard Aztecs. Your reaction to this neargenocide will be completely up to you.

If you want, you'll be able to follow the path of 'good' and concentrate on building up a thriving metropolis. In doing so, you can have Helm's Deep-like defences, full of vast buildings and farms, and let the game and the enemy come to you. On the other hand, you can just go out and reap your revenge on the jfc enemy by building huge armies and waging all-out war.

The Laws Of Physics

But more on wars and battle tactics later, as our tour begins with a visit to the physics department. This is the one area that Peter Molyneux believes - more than any other - will shape the game and allow you to do things you've only ever dreamed of.

As with its predecessor, you'll control your on-screen actions via a giant omnipotent cursor-like hand, which use to pick up and manipulate any object in the world and cast a devastating array of spells. 'Imagine the ability to pick up and start to build things with your hand. The gameplay mechanics of that are almost infinite. Every object in B&W2 has its own properties: that's every tree, branch, pebble and rock, everything. This new physics system doesn't just apply to objects interacting with each other correctly, it also applies to their interaction with heat, light and water'.

Folding like a fat man punched in the gut the container collapses, ceramic splinters cascading to the floor, their descent merged with tumbling rocks and pebbles which ricochet off each other and scatter wildly across the ground. He repeats the process, again and again, each time the result different.

'Now imagine doing that at the top of a hill in order to start a giant landslide to attack a town below,' enthuses Peter. 'Or you may want to create a makeshift prisoner of war camp by putting people in one of these containers and half filling it with water. This means that the ones at the bottom are either crushed or drowned, and when you break it open, they all fall out correctly depending on whether they're dead or alive, wet or dry.'

Peter continues: 'You can be as destructive or creative as you wish. You can stack things, quickly and easily. You could create a barrier out of rocks and wood or any other object in the land, or make a giant seesaw with a plank and a stone, then put a rock on one end to make your own makeshift catapult.'

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Studio head Jonty Barnes interjects with an idea that came to him in a dream, in which he defeated Peter in a multiplayer game by freezing all his troops, then shattering them with rocks.

Peter looks impressed and makes a mental note, an example of the everevolving and open-ended development process that he both preaches and allows his team to practice. While the two jokily discuss their multiplayer prowess, Chris loads up a new level with a towering wall arching majestically across a valley floor.

Once again he picks up a boulder, and tosses it at the structure. But the wall holds firm. Instead, the rock shatters, its razor-like splinters dropping impotently to the grass. 'I bet you weren't expecting that, were you?' beams Chris with a hint of deserved smugness. 'Bet you thought the wall was going to crack didn't you?' I'm duly impressed. But it's time to move on and Peter and Jonty, now seriously considering the shattering troop idea, lead us on to another section of desks at the other end of the office.

Creature Discomforts

Anton Kirczenow and Sebastian Schoellhammer are Black & White Studios' 3D creature programmers. They're both clearly very passionate about their work, and on seeing us are already jockeying for position to be the first to show off their work.

On Anton's monitor, a titanic battle is unfolding between a gargantuan lion and a grey-haired wolf. The creatures, circling each other warily at first, suddenly spring into action, rolling along the ground as they battle for the upper hand. Their momentum slows and the regal lion is pinned to the floor by the now rabid wolf, which is viciously lashing out at its trapped prey, filling the air with a maelstrom of hair and skin with a barrage of ripping blows. But Peter wants to talk about the creatures' other abilities first, so Anton's demonstration will have to wait.

'In B&W you couldn't instruct your creatures, but now they'll obey your instructions,' begins Peter, settling down in a seat between the two men's desks. 'You can choose from a lion, ape, cow, wolf and maybe a tiger, each of which has their own unique characteristics. A massive fault with B&W was that you had to sit and watch your creature the whole time and wait for it to do something before telling it whether it was right or wrong. Now you'll be able to see a list of things it's done recently, and punish or reward it accordingly - even if it's done the deed ten minutes ago.'

A Quick Summary

Peter's in his stride now, furbishing me with golden nuggets of information on the subject of creature training, detailed enough to fill three previews. Here are the highlights. First off, there's 'the leash of mimicking'. You do a task, it does a task. Simple. Your creature can also learn by watching your behaviour, then act autonomously when it deems certain tasks need doing. Example? Your villagers run low on the game's only resource, ore, so it'll help to gather more. And if its actions satisfy you 'Oh Mighty One-Handed One', then you can place rewards in its all-new creature pen.

With Anton and Sebastian wanting to show us more, Peter is called away to an important call and Jonty takes over the tour, urged by his departing boss to tell me about the final new way of teaching your beast. 'There's a whole new mechanic called Blueprints. These teach your creature specific things, so you don't have to. These may vary from building a wall, repairing buildings or military tactics, such as using archers on high ground when it leads your armies.' With that, it's time to see Anton and Sebastian's amazing 'creature circus'.

The Good And The Ugly

Back to Sebastian, who's keen to show us his creation, a monkey. Presented on the screen before me is a giant ape, rotating. He shows off its bumpmapped textures, pointing to the leathery, horn-studded back of the maniacal creature that looks one banana short of a bunch. 'Even the scars will be bumpmapped,' he enthuses, injuring the beast so gaping gashes appear on its torso. I stare in disbelief, but with time running short, we have to move on again.

Return To End

And so we arrive at our final destination, the desk of Matthew Wiggins, head buried in The Art Of Warfare On Land. Looking up, he scrabbles to his keyboard to show us how he's putting theory into practice.

'Some of the game's bigger battles will feature thousands of troops,' says Jonty as Matthew lines up a column of troops two-deep and 50-long at the base of a hill. 'You've got siege engines too, like catapults to knock down enemy walls, but it'll take a very long time, just like in real siege warfare,' he continues, while Matthew brings up several groups of enemy foot soldiers, and places them into a variety of formations.

Watching from above, they look like tiny dots, an army of ants, not a group of baying soldiers. As if sensing my trepidation, Matthew explains how you keep track of whose troops are whose. 'Certain coloured bubbles encircle your troop formations, making it obvious from above which groups of warriors are yours and how they're faring in battle.' Without warning, he unleashes hell. Ranks of red bubbled formations surge towards the thin, green bubble-enwrapped column on the hill, slowing slightly as they hit the incline, their wedged set-up cutting deep and scattering the defenders.

Zooming into the action, we can see the massacre up close: individually modelled soldiers are scrapping for their lives as their swords cut into flesh and send out a cacophony of screams from the straining speakers. However, just like the fallen, we've run out of time.

It's six o'clock and Jonty, Peter and the rest of the team still have five hours of work ahead of them. Their tireless and undying dedication to the job, a labour of love, a way of life, clearly paying off from the results I've seen. As I bid my farewells, it's hard not to be impressed. Although it's still some way off completion, if Black & White 2 can deliver on its promises, it could well be as near to a life-changing experience as a game can get. Time, as ever, will tell.

No shades of grey here.

Lionhead Studios has taken the god-game genre pioneered by its founder, Peter Molyneux, and revolutionized the genre with stunning AI and amazing visuals. Amazingly, Black & White has made good on all its promises hyped up during its development. And you really haven’t played anything quite like this before. Things start simply: in a world known as Eden, a family is out for a beachside stroll. Their son runs off into the ocean and suddenly finds himself in deep, shark-infested water. The parents cry out in prayer for someone to save him, and you are created as an answer to their pleas, and save their son.

Once called into existence, and as any self-respecting Populous player will recognize instantly, you must expand your realm by gaining more believers and spreading your influence. Eventually, a story involving an evil god named Nemesis and a set of powerful items called “creeds” is introduced. It’s up to you to defeat Nemesis and obtain all the “creeds.” Exactly how this is accomplished is up to you. You may become Beelzebub-incarnate and rule through terror and wickedness, or play the benevolent card and gain believers through love and compassion. Thus, Black & White.

Your own personal Eden

Eden itself is a planet not too different from our own. There are blue oceans, towering snow-capped mountains, and lush, green forests. The people that populate it require food, shelter, safety, and, eventually, offspring. They giggle or sob while other hypnotic ambient sounds bring this unique game world to life.

You interact with the lovely world of Eden in two ways. The first is through your mouse-controlled hand. Think of it as an actual extension of yourself into the physical realm. With it, you can pick up and replace boulders, trees, and villagers, cast spells, and travel from village to village. To toss a boulder, you grab one in your fist, move your mouse forward with the button pressed and release it to send that rock sailing. The camera is also moved along with the mouse-controlled hand in combination with several keyboard buttons.

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Spells, known as miracles, are cast through mouse movements called “Gestures.” For example, to start up a miracle, you make a clock-wise swirl with the mouse. This opens a spell menu at the bottom of the screen that lists other miracle-specific gestures. All you have to do to cast these miracles is make their respective gestures. Making a “W” motion with the mouse casts a water miracle, moving up and down rapidly casts a fireball, and making the shape of a heart casts a healing miracle. There are plenty of miracles to play with. You can protect your villages with shield miracles, lay down the law with lightning miracles ot impress non-believing villagers with the Flock of Birds miracle that makes a flock of doves magically appear.

However, you do have some limits. You are only able to interact with objects and cast spells within your circle of influence — highlighted in the game world by a shimmering, translucent red wall. This circle grows as more people believe in you and your influence grows. More worshipers means more prayer power, and more prayer power means you can cast more miracles. But how can you make them believe in you if you can’t do anything outside of your circle of influence?

Creature comforts

This is where the second method of interacting with the world comes into play: your creature. Think of the creature as the ambassador of your will. In the extensive early game, once you’ve practiced controlling the camera, you get to choose from three base creatures: a chimp, a tiger, and a cow (others are made available later in the game or via free downloads online), each with unique attributes. The chimp is smart but not the strongest fighter, the tiger is dumb but ferocious, and the cow is docile and plodding. Like any parent, it’s up to you to teach your creature how to behave with a brilliant balance of punishment and reward.

The theory is simple, but mastery of it is a real challenge. If your creature does something bad, you slap him around. If he does something right, you pet him. Moving the hand cursor slowly over the creature — under his chin or on his belly — acts as a ‘pet’ while quick short twitches of the mouse translate into slaps. Be your alignment good or evil, you pet and punish in the same way, but for different actions. Should your pet eat villagers, set fire to houses, and behave as Godzilla, he can, if that’s the behavior that you choose to reward.

This system relies on some meaty AI – your creature wanders around doing his own thing whenever not under your direct control. The AI is one of the game’s major high points. Each creature develops their own personality – they feel anger, sadness, and happiness, and aren’t afraid to show it. There’s a strategy to balancing these personality quirks. Dumber creatures, such as the tiger, will take more reinforcement before they learn their lessons, but the chimp will figure things out faster. Eventually, the creature will be able to do anything you can do, from casting miracles to finding food for villagers. To teach it, you just have to attach it to the “leash of learning” and have it watch you perform whatever it is you want it to learn. It can also learn things by watching villagers go about their daily chores.

As your creature ages, it grows in size and its alignment is reflected in its physical appearance. For example, a benevolent chimp will look cute and huggable, while an evil one will look menacing. This also applies to the appearance of your hand icon. If you’re good, it looks clean and healthy; if you’re bad, it turns purple, veins bulge out, and your nails grow long and claw-like. Subtle little touches like these give the game its charm. There isn’t nearly enough room here to go through all of Black & White’s intricacies, but it’s definitely worth delving head-deep into Eden and finding out how things work for yourself. You won’t feel disappointed.

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