Black & White 2 - Battle of the Gods

Lionhead Studios · Apr 24, 2006

Teen

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This expansion pack takes the player back once more to the world of Eden, where something strange has started to happen: The Aztecs have not accepted defeat lightly, and by making a huge number of human sacrifices they have raised their own evil deity, forcing the player to return to Eden to fight it head on. As customary in the Black & White world, the player has the freedom to choose how they will rise to this new challenge by either countering the evil deity's actions with good deeds or attempting to defeat him with extreme evil.

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Critic 6.5 (6 critics) · Gamer 7.7

Critic reviews

Game Zone
jkdmedia · Jun 04, 2006
7.0
In the long-term, this is the only fix you’ll have to your Black & White needs. With it being an expansion pack to Black & White 2, you’ll, of course, need the original to play it. There are still some glitches and bugs, but, it’s nothing heart-stopping that will take the pulse right out of the game. Good expansion, just not good enough to buy both the original and expansion to play it. If you have the original, go ahead and buy this. If you don’t, you are not missing out.
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Games Radar+
Dan Stapleton · Apr 26, 2006
6.0
The real downside is that many of the annoying bugs from the first campaign persist in the expansion. Path finding still stinks, so your creature will sometimes get stuck between buildings that he really should be able to fit through (or step over). And the biggest question: why, for the love of god (pun intended), didn’t they add multiplayer? It’s a god-sized wasted opportunity.
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IGN
Steve Butts · Apr 25, 2006
7.0
It doesn't really add any new toys to play with and the few that it does add are pretty much superfluous. The only real addition worth mentioning (beyond just having more missions) is the inclusion of an enemy with a definite personality and agenda. Sure, the military game is still just about pumping out enough soldiers to overwhelm your enemy, but the fact that the enemy is even there at all gives the expansion a focus that was missing from the original game.
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GameSpot
Jason Ocampo · Apr 24, 2006
7.2
Battle of the Gods is a fairly straightforward expansion, as it introduces some new content for Black & White 2 fans to enjoy and it sticks to the safe path of more of the same. The visuals and production values remain relatively unchanged and are fairly good, though there's an annoying graphical glitch that we saw in Black & White 2 that still hasn't been addressed, that being the weird streaking effect whenever you zoom in on your creature. Still, if indulging a god complex is your thing, you'll probably enjoy Battle of the Gods.
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Euro Gamer
Egon Superb · May 03, 2006
6.0
The first time I played Black & White, I spent so long on it that my friends would've given me up for dead, if it wasn't for the ape noises and smell of beans emanating from my room. After playing the three levels of this, all the beans in Tesco wouldn't make me play it again. There's not room in this sandbox for two. Or one for that matter. Goodbye gods, hello atheism.
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jeuxvideo.com
Aiste · May 01, 2006
6.0
On ne frémit jamais devant La Bataille Des Dieux, tout au plus on s'accroche à une difficulté bien réglée ou a quelques mécanismes extravagants telle la coulée de lave, et on éprouve quelque plaisir coupable à retrouver sa créature. Mais l'ensemble reste bien léger, et l'envie de continuer s'effiloche à la mesure de ces parties très, trop, similaires au titre d'origine.
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