Description of Black & White Windows
Black & White is a “god” game in the tradition of Populous, one that hoped to revolutionize the genre through complex learning AI and an exploration of good and evil and how they relate to a divine being. It was one of the most anticipated games of the genre and highly praised for its originality and concepts upon release, however many have re-evaluated Black & White since the glow of its initial hype faded and found it over-ambitious and highly flawed, likely to leave a mixed impression.
While you take on the role of a god of a primitive people, you cannot act as a gentle shepherd in your divine role—to put it simply, your followers are brick-dumb and useless, and they cannot do or accomplish anything, even having kids, without the literal hand of God intervening.
Black & White's tutorial may be useful, but it is also quite lengthy—an indicator of the snail's pace at which the game moves. Your “influence” grows very slowly as you perform miracles and impress your followers by dumping food and raw materials on them; eventually, you are able to interact with neighboring villages to win hearts and minds or destroy them utterly. The process can take hours.
Jan 10, 2016 Black & White 2. Posted by Admin| January 10, 2016| Strategy. TORRENT – FREE DOWNLOAD – CRACKED. Game Overview. 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. Black & White 2 Free Download PC Game Cracked in Direct Link and Torrent. Black & White 2 is a video game developed by Lionhead Studios.
One of the key features touted in Black & White is your “creature”--an animal with a learning AI that allows you to teach it by showing it things, rewarding “good” behavior and punishing undesired behavior. The difficulty in effectively teaching the creature to behave in a useful manner is one of the most frequently criticized aspects Black & White. Plus several unfinished or poorly implemented aspects of its AI can prove a source of constant frustration (such as a creature complaining repeatedly about thirst—there's no way to force the creature to drink, and water is not a resource you can manipulate or provide).
The moral quandaries posed by Black & White are often the cartoonish type you get with any games with hamfisted morality systems, where the choice is to be an angelic paragon or a mustache-twirling villain. Of course, difficult controls and sluggish rate of progression means that it's also easy to either accidentally do bad or too tiresome to resort to good.
Black & White is more a novel curiosity to be revisited than a genuinely good game. Fans of real-time strategy games that focus on building and developing a culture will find Black & White shallow and imprecise, while fans of real-time strategy games that focus on action and combat will find Black & White slow and tedious. To the builders, I'd recommend Serf City or Age of Empires; to those who get a kick out of being an evil hand that smacks its minions around, the Dungeon Keeper games are infinitely more rewarding.
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Black & White has an addon available: Black & White: Creature Isle, don't miss it!
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How to play Black & White Windows
Making B&W work on Win 7/8/10 is kinda tricky, as you would expect from a game made more than 15 years ago. Hopefully, BW player Lant made a very good tutorial on BAWSite.com. You'll find many more files to download from this website, made by '.', creator of BaW Patch, BaW Graphics Mod Manager, BaW Version Restorer.
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Jack2019-05-280 point
Cant install patch it says game is not installed
James2019-04-161 point
I'm playing ther RIP version but some sound is missing and my creature doesnt follow to next map.
anymous2019-03-222 points
installing black and white
-after install, the game cannot be played and the crack inside disc also error. so patch the game to 1.2.
-copy crack from 1.2 no cd fix
-set compability to xp and run as administrator
installing creature isle
-after install creature isle, game cannot run properly because folder instalation is wrong. it will keep telling that you have not install the original black and white for the expansion to be able to run. so change :
C:Program Files (x86)Lionhead Studios LtdBlack & WhiteCreatureIsle
to C:Program Files (x86)Lionhead Studios LtdBlack & WhiteCreature Isle
(the correct creature isle instalation folder is using space)
-download black and white crature isle no cd crack 1.0 eng from gamecopyworld and paste it.
-run the game as administrator. don't use compability to win xp sp because it will make the game asking you not having original game error again like above. this is first game to have error after set to compability xp sp. usually most other game instead require you set compability xp sp to run properly. this is the opposite..
Peter Bosman2019-03-161 point
Hi
I have tried downloading both the Rip version of Black & White and the ISO Version of Black and White and I am having a lot of difficulty trying to get the program to run. My OS is Windows 10. I have a friend that got it to work on his pc and a youtuber that I follow was playing it on his windows 10 PC so if you have any suggestions on how I can get this game to work on my PC please email me at Peter_Bosman@hotmail.com
Quil the Great2019-02-010 point
@Azhsara A RIP is what you get when you install the game and copy all the installed files, pretty much the game is pre-installed but to make it downloadable sounds and music and things like that are often removed.
An ISO is a virtual disc file - it's the disc but not physical. You'll have to mount it to your CD drive and install it, but it has all the sounds and music and stuff.
Quil the Great2019-02-011 point
Oh wow.. this game. The 'Good' and 'Evil' characters and their un-skippable tutorial drive me up the wall, but it's still fun.
PIZZABYCARLOS2019-01-300 point
this aint working for me, it downloads fine but asks for a code.
ive tried everything from googling codes to looking through the files but nothing worked,
all that came in the folder was the black and white disk thing
artyom2019-01-110 point
i love lionhead studios but its really sad that they didnt finish the BC game :(
CrysalisX2019-01-101 point
I also was having trouble with the serial number and then jeez getting it to actually run, but it's always the simplest things we forget so I'm going to put what I found here:
The serial number is in one of the folders once you open the downloaded folders called 'crack' because of cracked serial numbers ya get,
Was so ready to give up bc ISO one gets you far enough to download everything but doesn't load on windows 10 at least, eventually I tried the RIP runblack again and it worked, unsure if I did anything special but defo followed the guide.
Now I can finally play, as I have done for the last 6 hours, and promptly realised there's no way I have time for this kind of game anymore, old games wai, still fun tho
Shaswat2019-01-090 point
I always love Black & White games
Nik2019-01-011 point
Aspire 5736z ethernet controller driver windows 7 64 bit free download. Dgvoodoo program is needed to run this game well. it forces the game to use current dx9-11. simply throw it in the game folder run the dgvoodoo program play with settings save and run B&W. May take a bit of playing to get the perfect setting. but should run well enough even without playing.
Mark Langdahl2018-12-301 point
A little hint: The game basically has borked graphics settings meaning that if you have more than I believe 128 MB of video memory the game gets an overflow resulting in you getting the worst possible textures in the game. You can get around this by using a Direct3D wrapper like dgVoodoo. Just unzip the dll files from the MS folder into the game folder together with the config exe and set it to use GeForce 4 settings. Then it should look its best even on modern hardware.
EmmaDeeb2018-07-2021 points
How to install. (EASY)
Start of creating two new folders, wherever you want this installation to take place. One called B&W ISO, and one called Black & White.
Download the ISO file, to the B&W ISO folder.
Download the RIP Version to the Black & White folder.
Unpack the ISO file in the ISO folder, and the RIP file in the Black & White folder.
Go to the unpacked ISO folder, and copy the Audio folder to the Black & White RIP folder. It will ask you to overwrite - Pick yes.
(In the RIP file, the music seems to have gone missing, so this will fix that.)
If you want to unlock the creatures, simply download the Creatures unlockers to a new folder. Once they have been downloaded, you will been to unpack them, and they will show up as Exe files. Start one at the time as admin. It will ask you if you wish to install the creature, press yes.
If you get a windows pop-up saying it might not have been properly installed, just chose 'No, this has been installed correctly.' or just press the X.
I have been playing the game for hours on end, and I still love it after all these years.
Also - No issues what-so-ever. Save files working great, no lag or weird bugs. Everything seems to be working just fine when 'installed' like this.
So I definitely recommend installing it like this, using the RIP version, and not installing via the ISO version, just taking the Audio files from ISO to RIP to make sure all of the Audio works fine.
Happy installing!
hillo2018-07-172 points
I found a much more thorough guide
http://www.bwfiles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7916.0
bheaze2018-06-241 point
land 3 is not appearing for me? not sure how to fix it? was working till this point.. tried re-extracting and also changing folder permissions ect
Zagreb2018-06-072 points
try to run the game on Windows 8.1 i tru run it with admin, change the color set to 256, the resolution, but nothing happens anyone has a solution?
steevxx2018-05-07-4 points
I am having the same problem as kath. Whenever i try to run this game nothing happens. Not even a simple load screen window. I downloaded all of the patches cracks and even ran as administrator.. Nothing! Im using windows 10 64bit machine.. Can anyone help in any way???
TomCrusader2018-04-11-3 points
Is there a serial key for this game?
Azhsara2018-04-080 point
I dont know what RIP and ISO is. could someone enlighten my poor unintelligent soul
ArchDuke2018-03-232 points
It keeps on crashing every time I start the game
Dark_JED2018-02-254 points
I did everything, installed all I was supposed to, then when I want to play it.. it tells me to put in the right CD rom.. and I only have one cd for this game, that I burned the files onto
Kath2018-02-131 point
So I've followed the guide, but whenever I launch the game. nothing happens. I've set it to run as administrator, but still nothing happens. Really don't know what to do.
Lemo2018-02-052 points
Thanks Pico, everything work now except I'm unable to patch the game
Pico2018-02-032 points
Lemo, make sure you always run Black and white with administrator permissions and saves will start working correctly.
Lemo2018-02-020 point
everything works fine except the game wont save so I have to keep restarting.
Fazed Out Pigeon2018-01-271 point
Cool. I'm gonna try download this, looks sick.
KZ2018-01-082 points
My whole family has been looking for this game since 2008 when we lost our hard copy, the makers of this site deserve some kind of cultural preservation commendation for the site in general, but especially this, thank you, admins.
Dario2017-12-10-2 points
For me following link worked; http://www.bwfiles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7916.0
ecxed2017-12-104 points
I don't know why they don't just re-release these old games and update them, I'd buy them again, this one full price.
The_Viol8ter2017-12-062 points
Anyone have a serial number?
P2017-11-162 points
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Both the music and the intro video both did not work upon my download..everything else seems to be working fine..any fix for this??
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ITS EASY2017-11-11-2 points
if you read it then your fine and you need to extract the files which reading your comments it seems like you neglected to read so read then comment if your still having trouble..
people are getting more and more stupid
Zeus2017-11-023 points
i am using wine to run this on mac but the problem is that some of the textures are just plain black.
Hoody2017-10-253 points
I havent been able to get the RIP version of this to work, because you have to install the patches to get this functional.
If your using Mac, I think your out of luck btw, because this was a day where Mac didn't care for gaming.. Lol
Anyways, you have to use something to install the .ISO (virtual CD) I like to use Daemon Tools, (your virtual CD Drive) download Daemon Tools, learn out to mount the .ISO and you can install the game easy. (You basically are trying to put your virtual CD, into your virtual CD drive) Once you do that, do what the rest of the description says above, and use the 'Guide' to install the patches and stuff to get it to work. If you do it perfectly, and you think its garbage and a liar, try another computer. Use your old crappy laptop, use your brothers, use your grandmas, and if you don't want to do that. Then I'm sorry, YOUR CONSCIENCE DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU EITHER!
???2017-10-113 points
this game i vary fun even now i love the choice you have
Scott2017-10-091 point
Loved this game back in the day!
Bod382017-09-071 point
So i may be really stupid because im not tech savvy. but the instructions say for the audio to take the audio from the cd into the install directory. does that mean i need the original disk to have music? or am i just an idiot haha. either way the music is important for my childhood soul
Dmitriy2017-08-24-8 points
I see that the download worked well but when I start the game, it asks me to make a CD uncertain how I can fix it or which folder I need to open?
B&W fanboy2017-07-16-3 points
Hi I have been having problems trying to get B&W to work properly can someone help me?
Olly2017-06-071 point
Would love a Mac port of this!
DerangedGaming2017-03-021 point
Downloaded perfectly, following the steps provided in the link above, game installed, patched, and played flawlessly. Windows 10 x64 OS.
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