Story.
Will you be an evil or benevolent diety? that's the choice you must make upon returning to a warring land in Black & WHite 2. Like it's wildly successful predessor, Black & White, the sequel is all about more choices.
The land, however, has transformed itself. The inhabitants of this breathtaking 3D world have lost their innocence and developed new weapons and technology. As you enter this warring world, will you make tribes co-exist peacefully, encouraging villages and towns to grow into sprawling metropolises, or prompt them to inflict their war upon by creating and commanding large armies that seek to dominate and conquer?
Creatures in the game have grown too. They can learn strategies, master new abilities and skills, lead armies into battles and be your ultimate unit.

Black & White 2 includes other new elements, such as improved graphics and miracle effects such as rivers of fire and earthquakes that yield massive destruction. Every choice you make will have an impact. Each action and inaction prompts obvious changes to buildings, flora and fauna, all morphing to reflect your personality.

New Features.



• A compelling and rich story that fluctuates based on your actions.
  
• Villages can be developed into vast cities complete with towering defensive walls.
  
• Either using your hand of God or your creature, the new threading army system allows you to control immense armies as easily as small platoons.
  
• Sophisticated army A.I. creates captivating scenes of battle directed by your strategy, your commands and the overalll story.
  
• Brand new graphics engine that takes the Black & White world to another level of visual excellence.
  
• Vastly improved Creature interface and A.I.
  Advanced morphing technology, for both your creature and the land, creates a world that is even more reactive to your alignment.

Estimated System Requirements (Subject to Change):
Minimum Specification:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP,
450mhz processor, 128mb RAM,
800mb Hard Drive Space,
CD or DVD 4x speed drive,
16mb Graphics Card PCI/AGP,
Direct3D 3D accelerator,
Direct X 8, Keyboard & Mouse.

Miracles.
Miracles, as always, will play a large part in your chances of victory in BWII.
As well as all the usuals from Black & White 1, which included:- Fireball, Lightning, Megablast, Storm, Rain, Heal, Flock, Pack, Food, Wood and Forest,, Black & White 2 has additional, new improved miracles called EPIC MIRACLES.
EPIC MIRACLES will work in a slightly differant way than normal. Where normally, miracles require prayer power, gained by having your villagers pray at you temple, these will draw prayer power by having your villagers pray at a special tower.




These miracles are so powerful however, that they require massive amounts of prayer power to activate, and this takes a long time to accumulate.

Epic miracles known about so far are the SIREN miracle.




This spell entrances all enemy units caught in the area of effect making them easy picking for your own units.

Buildings.
As expected, there are a whole host of new types of buildings accessible in Black & White 2.
Examples of buildings known about so far are:-

• Garrison: where normal villagers can be recruited into your army to make soldier units.
  
• New Village Store: now has three compartments for wood, grain and the new resource ORE.
  
• EPIC tower: as mentioned in the miracle section above, this is used to collect prayer power for EPIC miracles.
  
• Forge: not much is known about this yet. What we do know is that creatures will be able to wield weapons, and this is where you can make them.
  
• Walls: are going to play a huge part in your campaign. They can pretty much be built anywhere, and it's as simple as drawing a line. They will be especially useful to good gods who are trying to protect their towns rather than attack.
  It's also posible to command your troops to defend these walls, whereby archers will climb the ramparts and fire clouds of arrows at the enemy from on high!
  
• Watch towers: can be built at various points along these walls.
  

The concept world map.

You might be able to view the entire world from a global perspective.

I also heard you can use poo for farming and volcanoes last forever and erupt every once and a while.

Maybe you could update this with any confirmed animals.
And anything else.

Edit: And maybe not.

This message was edited by Armed Rebel on Mar 22 2006.