The Epic Story of Black and White 26
Disgruntled Goat writes " The Guardian Gamesblog recently visited Lionhead Studios, and had a chance to talk to Peter Molyneux about the future of the Black and white series. From the article: 'Among lots of other interesting details, Lionhead chief Peter Molyneux reveals that there will be five installments to the series, each game following the progression of the relationship between the citizens in the game and the god, represented by the player.'"
Re:Focus on One at a Time, Please... (Score:2, Informative)
I played B&W1 when it was released, and I never got past the third island due to sheer boredom. The first level was alright since you got the creature fairly early, and the second level was basically a playground where you could teach your creature tons of miracles and shape most of its personality. The third level was such a bummer for me because it's that level where the player's creature is captured (iirc). I had spent all that time teaching my creature to do all sorts of miracles only to have it locked up for a whole level.
Couple that with villages that are never happy (it's impossible to get all the flags on the Village Store to disappear), and it made for one overhyped game that I only enjoyed on the second level.