![]() ![]() It got hugely high reviews at the time which have prompted plenty of “overrated” comments since. So how good is it?: Debates still rage to this day on how good a game Black & White is. This Creature will learn from your actions, so you better teach it right and tell it off if it eats too many villagers… unless you want it to do that of course. But you’re not alone: you have a pet Creature to accompany you. ![]() You can appease your followers, give them their heart’s desire and let them rely on you for everything, or you can make them live in fear at unleashing your wrath. Playing as a new god, you have to amass an army of followers and gain enough power to usurp your powerful rival Nemesis. What is it?: Black & White is still, in many ways, the ultimate god game. Gradually the game took shape, and Black & White finally launched on PC in March/April 2001. The team, led by Molyneux, started throwing around mad ideas such as being completely mouse-driven and UI-less, and having online weather systems that tracked what your local weather was like and put it in the game. While Lionhead was founded in 1996, the small team would only begin work on the game proper when they moved into their new Guildford offices in 1998. That game was to be called Black & White. Working out of Peter Molyneux’s house, the at first small team immediately began working on their first game, an epic expansion of the God Game genre that they themselves had invented at Bullfrog with Populous. ![]() Named after co-founder Mark Webley’s hamster (RIP), Lionhead was home to many of the Bullfrog team including Peter Molyneux. Many ended up banding together to form other studios, such as Mucky Foot ( Urban Chaos, Startopia), and the biggest was called Lionhead. Of course founder, designer and programmer Peter Molyneux had a large hand in many of these titles, and after the release of Dungeon Keeper Bullfrog was purchased by Electronic Arts and a large number of the team left. Arguably the most creative developer the UK has ever seen (sorry Lionhead), Bullfrog was home to such innovative and absurdly playable titles such as Theme Park, Populous, Syndicate, Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet and more. Of course we can’t talk about Lionhead without bringing up Bullfrog. ![]()
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