Half-dozen months after Black & White 2 hit stores comes Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods, an expansion pack that adds some new content for would-be gods everywhere to enjoy. Like whatever expansion, Battle of the Gods features new levels and abilities to play with, though you may detect that it's just more than of the same. Still, when talking about Blackness & White 2, that isn't such a bad matter.

The creature remains one of Black & White's most-unique features, and he can be trained to be the ultimate warrior.
The animate being remains i of Black & White's most-unique features, and he tin exist trained to be the ultimate warrior.

Battle of the Gods once once again puts yous in the role of a nameless god whose existence depends upon having devoted worshippers. The game takes its name from the fact that yous can be every bit skillful or as evil every bit you want, from being a benevolent god in a happy land to being an evil god in a dark and twisted land. As y'all'd expect, Battle of the Gods picks up later on the events of Blackness & White ii. Only when you thought that everything was okay, a new undead god appears, complete with an undead ground forces of skeletons--not to mention a cool, undead new creature. Over again, information technology'll be upward to you to trounce this rival god on various isles by nurturing your followers and building a flourishing civilisation that lets you either assimilate the Aztec god's followers peacefully or militarily.

The core gameplay remains pretty much unchanged in the expansion, though you practice get to battle it out on a handful of new islands, some of which experience downright huge compared to those seen in Blackness & White two. If you played Blackness & White two, y'all can import your existing brute to Battle of the Gods, but if you didn't play that game, yous can jump into the expansion immediately with a new brute. In that location are two new creatures to choose from, as well, boosting the total upwardly to six. Regardless of whether you import an existing creature or start anew, you'll begin the expansion with a boatload of tribute points, and you'll have to purchase the buildings and powers that y'all'll outset with.

Again, it's simple and like shooting fish in a barrel to build upwardly your follower's cities, as pretty much the entire game tin be played without ever touching the keyboard. Just utilise the mouse to do everything from laying out cities to picking upward and dropping citizens effectually on the map. Y'all can besides use the mouse to punish or advantage your creature for its behavior, and then it's like shooting fish in a barrel to rapidly train it to do what you desire, from fertilizing fields with its manure to knocking downward enemy walls.

The expansion does introduce new building types and powers. While it's dainty that you can now build crossroad signs that help your followers movement around the town more easily, this and other features don't seem to have a big affect on the overall game. Meanwhile, the difficulty level remains about the aforementioned, as the artificial intelligence is content to send platoons at you lot in a steady and regular stream, making information technology piece of cake to shell them with your creature. Defeating the enemy is too unchanged. While it'south possible to just assimilate them peacefully by building a 1000 city that makes them want to defect, the sheer size of some of these maps can brand this a long and fatigued out process, since you'd need a huge and impressive urban center. So you can send your creature into the fray to defeat the enemy's creature and crush the Aztec armies, while building platoons to seize and capture Aztec towns. Whether you pursue a peaceful or militaristic approach, you'll find that information technology'll take you hours to go through each map, which is probably a good thing considering there are only a handful of new maps in the expansion.

Most of the game is spent city building, and once again it's up to you to squeeze as many buildings as possible into a limited space.
Most of the game is spent city building, and once once more it's upwardly to you to squeeze as many buildings every bit possible into a limited infinite.

Perhaps the biggest noticeable alter is the addition of more minigame challenges that you can pursue for tribute points, which permit you unlock new buildings and powers. These challenges tin can provide a short diversion from the main focus of the game, as you can solve puzzles, partake in some ice curling, shoot down zombies with lightning bolts, and more than. And so again, these diversions aren't really necessary, and you'll commonly tackle them at the end of a level after you rout the Aztec god from the land.

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 product values remain relatively unchanged and are adequately proficient, though there's an abrasive graphical glitch that we saw in Black & White ii that nonetheless hasn't been addressed, that existence the weird streaking event whenever you zoom in on your brute. Still, if indulging a god complex is your matter, you'll probably enjoy Battle of the Gods.