Black & White

About Black & White


In a perfect world, people wouldn’t need gods. But perfect worlds can’t exist and sooner or later someone, in trouble, desperate, will pray to the heavens. This is what happens in the beginning of Black & White.

Your new tribe bow before you in awe, and from this moment your prayer power starts to grow. As you carry out godly acts, the belief in you rises and more and more people are convinced that worshipping you in the way forward. But you can be good or evil. You may choose to rule the world as you wish.

As you grow in power, you acquire a Creature, a wondrous being capable of doing anything you can do. Capable of learning and being trained and capable of making his own decisions. The people of Eden, whether they believe in you or not, can’t failed to be impressed by this beast, and more are swayed to your cause through their admiration of the Creature and the god that owns him.

But on other lands there are other gods. They have their own Creatures and their own followers. You must vie with them for power. You must use your Miracles, your Creature and your cunning to steal followers from these gods, and to do battle between the Creatures for supremacy.

The ultimate goal is the Creed. Elements of these live within each Creature, and he who controls the parts of the Creed can control the whole land of Eden.

You may do well. You may sway the minds of the tribes, but can you gather the parts of the Creed? Can you defeat the god of gods, the enemy of enemies? Can you defeat your Nemesis and rule over the whole world? That is a question only you, and only time will answer.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/dueck.dennis Dennis Dueck

    Hi I have been trying to get this game to work on my system for a few weeks now and no matter what I’ve done it always crashes on start up all I get is a black screen for a few seconds then it closes plz help

    • http://www.facebook.com/dueck.dennis Dennis Dueck

      oh yea I have a Acer Aspire 7560
      64-bit AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.40GHz
      4GB RAM
      running windows 7 Home

      • http://www.facebook.com/FatherEaon Kyle Parden

         On a 32 and I believe a 64 bit system. Delete any traces of B&W1 in your registry and reinstall. Patch to whatever patch you want, then what you’ll want to do is run the setup thing once you install and use custom graphics to set everything to max (otherwise you’ll lag). Then what you’re going to do is make sure compatability mode is off, reset your computer and run as admin. Seems to do the trick.

        • http://www.facebook.com/dueck.dennis Dennis Dueck

          thats how I originally installed and ran it on this system guess I can try it again though

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Enright/68901328 Andrew Enright

    What a magical game. They just don’t make them like they used to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1334128791 Elina Fribacken Bennich

    Why not make a Black and White 3?  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1334128791 Elina Fribacken Bennich

    And just to make sure – if you make Black & White 3, make it a lot more like the first game. The second game sucked, it was the first game that was the most epic game ever. The creature, the environment, the music. <3 My favorite game for ever. 

  • http://FlameMan.pl/ FlameMan

    My favourite game of all time. Black & White 3 should be improved version of this one, not B&w2.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Enright/68901328 Andrew Enright

       Truth. I DID like the road and city building mechanics of B&W2, but everything else about B&W1 was better.

  • Jimboandcody123

    Black & white 2 did not have as much freedom as you did in black and white 1. When I was playing black & white 2, i sometimes felt like i was playing a game like command and conquer. But i think there should be a black and white 3 and a version for the nintendo DS and nintendo 3DS because that would be awesome and I’m sure ever b&w lover would love a 3rd game

  • Robert Croome

    Who has the rights to Black and White lionhead, is it EA? Sad to see Peter Molyneux leave, I hope the creativity of previous years comes back. 

    Black and White 3 asap please, make it like the first one, but more polished (finished)

    • Hecaitomix

      This is a question that almost everyone in the community wants an answer to. Many people think it is EA, but they are not quite sure. Lionhead, we ask you again and again. Who owns the name and publishing rights for the Black & White IP??

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001137813083 Tom Buxton

    any one know where i can get a copy for pc now days?

  • http://twitter.com/RUltimateTobi Tobias Vahle

    How can I download the patches now off this site?

  • http://twitter.com/RUltimateTobi Tobias Vahle

    Nevermind.

  • abig8182

    Operating System – Windows XP
    PROCESSOR-PENTIUM4
    I CANT PLAY THE GAME
    WHY WHY WHY?
    PLEASE ANYONE
    ANSWER ME……………

  • http://www.facebook.com/tiaan.Chompi Tiaan Chompie van Heerden

    Right! So i finally dug out me ol’ CD from a dusty box thats been sealed for close to 8 years now… Was nicely in the mood for some online challenge! Then it asks for a username and password…. And i’m guessing i need to create one here somewhere. My only question is… Where? I cant find any links to anything that might be remotely connected to my problem. A little help please?

  • wilczur50

    trurfty

  • wilczur50

    troll

  • sundoren

    I beg lionhead. I want a game bw3 asap and it should be longer then bw1 much more longer. and please ı want tons of new miracles. like a true god. but it should be exactly like the bw1 not bw2.  bw1 is the most amazing best godlike game ever created. and the 2. game is the fable tlc. please give us 1k miracles and 50 new lands and give us a chance to travel to the previous land. ı want bw1 !!! but just a enhanced one :) )

  • majnaszki128

    Siemka gdzie można zrobić konto

  • Aszki majnaszki128

    EEEEEEEEE

  • http://twitter.com/TheBlueBAM Bam Munoz

    i cant play black and white on my mac do to not being able to use powerpc how do i fix this?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/543KXFONV4MGAON7M4CADABQXI Walter

    I used to save my skirmish games and load them with no problem.  My old disc got ruined and I just bought another one on ebay.  I’m not able to save the skirmish game now…how do I save it?  Thanks for any help here.

  • Roxis420

    I have B&W1. When I save the game and exit the temple then return, the save game is gone. What can I do to fix the problem?
     

  • David Hingar

    A totally agree with all of you. B&W1 was the best, carefully designed game with lots of great ideas. One of my most favorite games i ever played (and trust me, i’m really picky person). Hell, you’ve made something really original there. Though, I really didn’t liked the way it developed in B&W2, all the RTS elements you’ve added just ruined the basis of B&W itself, making a failure in my eyes.

    I would strongly suggest you boys return to your old roots, times of B&W1 when you knew how to make a very good game, and make that count for making B&W3. That would be the best and most wise move you can do right now.

    Regards, your old ex-fan.

  • Diego Loldog

    remake of Black & White 1!!!!!! :3

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/AFFCX3I5FXUJVDZJS2EOR2KNLE Dustin

    i need a cd key code for black & white i have lost mine please help since there is no customer support line.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bram-Lemmen/100000134184403 Bram Lemmen

    is there a legal way i can download B&W 1, not a single store has it in stock. (holland)  and i cant find any1 that still has the original game.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=849245110 facebook-849245110

    I love this game! I hope you guys make Black and White 3 one beautiful day.

  • Saxoria

    Where can I buy this game? in Poland? Help!

    • nie podam nie podam

       Empik?

  • Skipper Davies

    Where can I buy the first Black and White legally online without having to ship a CD to my house? 

  • Eric Taylor

    this is were you guys at lionhead studios take our advice. take black and white 1 throw in the road and city building mechs improve the graphics add more creatures, add an “in between” of good and evil and a few different creature looks for how evil or how good and a few more things to create and destroy and call it black and white 3 :)

  • Eric Taylor

    also add in evil or good only powers of sheer awsome and allow those who can handle a challenge and keep there creature in between to be able to get both powers that would be sweet. also you guys rock thanks for fable 1, 2, and 3 for xbox 360 when we gonna see fable 4? (not kinect version i dont have one and dont want one)
     

  • esmorri24

    i need and update to play black and white. NT Kernnel issues plus cant understand wireless or a 3.8ghz processor COME ON!!!! Trying to sell it with no support? esmorri24@aol.com

  • Shane Geldart

    how to get this working in Xp and Win ???

  • http://twitter.com/SEIgeMoDE GamerEveryMinute

    We want Black & White 3!!!

  • meggamat

    please can someone Email me or respond to this comment.  I cannot register black and white online, the register page does not seem to exist anymore.
    my address is matthew.c.g.i@hotmail.com

    • http://www.facebook.com/liberty.taylor Liberty Jean Irene Taylor

      I am also having this problem. Boo.

      • http://www.facebook.com/chris.dalfem Chris Sera Dalfem

        The online server of Black and white were displayed forever. 

  • panickeyaxes

    meheheh

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Christian-Pagayon/100001386711534 John Christian Pagayon

    Why cant i play online? and how can i make my own server lan and internet, pls Reply on this post :(  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1703875961 Keelan Gawthorpe

    how can u go online i really want 2 go online and vs other people unless they have took online off coz they think no1 gose on and how do u get online username and pass plz rply

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TIWJ673O4LEOPE3LNEUWE3MNFU abhishek

    Hello guys ,
    i recently foud a cd lieng around my closet of black & white although i just have the cd and no pass key does anybody know how i can retrieve it cause i defo dont wanna have keygen and crap cause i wont be able to play it online…lionhead if you listening can ya help me out???pls?
    Thank you
    my email is vagabondx1@yahoo.com 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1703875961 Keelan Gawthorpe

      cant play it online anyway

  • k0orm0ox

    game over

  • http://twitter.com/benoithoule1 benoit houle

    can comone tell me where i can buy BW2 plz

    coolbenno1@hotmail:disqus .com

    skype: secraiskille

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JBCYAZ6RXRPT2SXZY7ZXMGI4EY Josh

    Online is gone. They used to have an entire site dedicated to it but that’s all over now. Too bad. It was an extremely fun and addicting game. Wish they went to Black and White 3 lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/jakub.kawecki.37 Jakub Kawecki

    to jest bardzo fajna gra ale grafika troche słaba ale mi sie podoba

  • http://www.facebook.com/jakub.kawecki.37 Jakub Kawecki

    fajna gra