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Black & White: Creature Isle

Windows - 2002

Alt names Black & White: Creature Isle - Find out who your Creature really is, Black & White: Eiland vol wezens, Black & White: Insel der Kreaturen, Black & White: Insel der Kreaturen - Entdecke das wahre Ich deiner Kreatur, Black & White: L'île aux créatures
Year 2002
Platform Windows
Released in Czechia, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States
Publisher Electronic Arts, Inc.
4.49 / 5 - 49 votes

Description of Black & White: Creature Isle

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When Black and White was finally unveiled last year, amid a storm of hype not encountered since the last Star Wars film was released, it certainly had its fair share of controversy. Although the game gained many loyal fans and a glowing review here at Games Domain, some nasty bugs emerged soon after its release, and it took a series of patches to get the game up to a suitable standard. Commendably, the game's developers at Lionhead added new features as they went along - but clearly they've reached either the limits of what they can do with a downloadable patch or, more cynically, the extent of what they were prepared to do for free. As such, the next step in Black and White'sevolution is this expansion pack, Creature Isle.

For the unfortunate handful that missed the first game, here's a recap. You, a god, had to convert a number of villages by getting them to worship you. This gave you mana, which you could use to cast a variety of miracles. You also acquired a creature that you could teach and guide as he matured. He could do anything you can do -- except build -- and soon became a useful tool for impressing new villages. It's a simple concept, but the complex and innovative AI behind the creature made the game astonishingly compelling. It responded to your behaviour, continually giving you choices between a merciful, kind approach and a violent, vengeful one. As your creature watched your responses, he would, over many hours, turn into a sparkling angelic apparition or a hunchbacked, clawed monster.

Creature Isle takes you and your creature to a new group of islands. Rather than being spread over a number of landscapes like the first game, it's just set on one (albeit large) atoll. Washed up on a new beach, you meet an organisation of godless creatures called the Brotherhood. To gain admission, your creature must complete a series of trials designed to test a variety of his skills, from bowling to running to gardening.

There's always four or five of the trials on offer, from the eighteen in the game. Each one is posed by one of the members of the Brotherhood - the tortoise wants you to beat him in a race (cheating encouraged), the mandrill wants you to beat him at soccer and the wolf wants to play a game of hide-and-seek. Winning earns you the right to swap your creature's form to that of the creature you beat, and you can also challenge that creature to a fight if you want.

One of the challenges is different to the rest, though. Tucked away on one corner of the island is an egg, perched precariously in a tree. You must guide your creature to the egg, then put it somewhere warm to hatch. The resulting baby -- a chicken called Tyke -- follows your creature around and learns from him, just as your creature learns from you. The challenge is to bring Tyke up well, and teach him the skills he needs. Success will earn you a feathered helper, and perhaps catch the eye of a mysterious female creature that lives on the island...

If you, like us, finished playing Black and Whiteand uninstalled it, you might find some frustrations with this expansion pack. Although it's great to have an excuse to play such an enjoyable game again, you will have lost your creature, unless you had the sense to back him up first. Without one, you're allotted an ape with a few basic skills and will likely be haunted by the desire for your old creature back, with his many, many hours of careful guidance and training. As it is, for much of the game we were attempting to train two creatures at once - not a particularly rewarding experience. Mind you, this is not the fault of the game, but it's a point to be aware of nonetheless.

One other trial will enable your creature to learn to build, an ability denied him in the first game. Our ape (not to mention Tyke) picked it up quickly -- learning speed seems to be increased in this version -- but proved reluctant to put his new skill to work helping the villagers.

However, although the trials are meant to be testing the abilities of your creature, in actual fact, it's you who has to complete the trials. The arcade-based games, like marbles and bowling (and the indescribable trial involving a giant crossbow, some flowers and a man with a donkey's head) require you to throw or manipulate objects using the game's physics system. The racing and soccer games make you direct his movements using the leashes and carefully placed clicks, and the board game against the ogre is just plain luck. It's hard to shake the feeling that you're playing a Black and White-themed 70s boxed board game compilation rather than a modern and innovative piece of software.

Worse than this, though, is the fact that no matter how advanced your creature is, success is down to your direct actions. In the original game, there was often no direct way to influence events - you had to rely on your creature to make things happen, and the bonding this encouraged was one of the game's most endearing qualities. Now he's reduced to the level of a pawn, rather than the living, breathing pet that Black and White simulated so effectively.

There are some fun trials, however - the fight with the rhino stands out, as he pulls all sorts of moves on you, and he's satisfyingly tough to beat. Sadly, though, most of the games are frustrating and (thanks to the ponderous physics engine that suited the first game so well) slow moving and dull. Often the game feels more like a test of patience than anything else.

But there's a more serious problem with Creature Isle. Making an expansion pack isn't difficult - you create a new set of content, preserving what was good about the original game while moving the focus away from the bad. Creature Isle has little concentration on impressing villagers and building, losing much of the RTS feel of the original; broadly, this is a good thing. What's not good is that it doesn't concentrate tightly enough on the creature-centred tasks of the original. Its key omission, though, comes in the loss of the original's delightfully open-ended nature. There is no "good" or "bad' way to win a bowling match -- you either win or you lose -- in which case all you need to do is try again.

Though the additions to Creature Isle will probably please the Black and White hardcore fans, and provide those more casual players with an excuse to bury themselves in its world again, it's ultimately a hollow experience. Without the good/bad paradigm, and minus the concentration on your creature's abilities rather than your own, it's lost most of the points that made it so totally absorbing. Fun for a while, but lacking in long-term value, Creature Isle can only be recommended for those desperate for a new Black and White fix.

Review By GamesDomain

Black & White: Creature Isle is an addon for Black & White, you will need the original game to play.

External links

How to play Black & White: Creature Isle Windows

Running Black & White on Windows 10: http://bawsite.com/installationguide.html or https://forum.bwgame.net/threads/running-black-white-on-windows-10.7916/
Unofficial patch: https://forum.bwgame.net/downloads/black-white-unofficial-patch-v1-42.1418/

The unofficial patch fixes the following:

  • Fixed game not running on Windows 7, 8, 10 due to Safedisc DRM.
  • Fixed game crashing at resolutions higher then 1080p or on high DPI displays.
  • Fixed low resolution textures and landscapes on PCs with high video memory.
  • Unlocks all creatures, including the never released rhino.
  • Fixed addons such as football addon not activating once installed.
  • Fixed windowed mode.
  • You can now skip the tutorial on a fresh install of the game.

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Comments and reviews

Max 2024-07-04 0 point

Hi,
What is to do with the German Disk-Image?
I'd like to play the Game in German, and I have the same "NO" Sound Problem,
thanks and have a nice day
Max

V 2024-04-02 0 point

So i can get it running but there is no audio. Audio works fine for the base game though

shig 2024-03-20 0 point

if youre having problems with the installer saying Black & White does not exist its because your Black & White folder is called 'Black & White'. It doesn't recognize the spaces/& symbol. Uninstall Black & White and reinstall it into a folder named something like BNW or blackandwhite. It should work now.

Seithes 2023-11-21 1 point

To anyone still struggling to get this running, you just need the latest patch:
https://forum.bwgame.net/downloads/black-white-creature-isle-unofficial-patch-v1-24.1459/

Geek Kev 2023-03-12 2 points

About 2 years since the last post about this issue and I have the same problem, I've applied the crack and I get "You must have Black & White installed to play Creature Isle." Please help.

Gondar 2022-04-25 1 point

Would be there a problem if I take this English version of Creature Isle while the main game is in German?

ANNA BANANA 2022-01-01 0 point

Re tried and got it to work by installing it in the default location C:\Program Files (x86)\Lionhead Studios Ltd. For some reason it doesn't work for other drives/locations.

Anna Banana 2021-12-30 1 point

Getting the same error, Does not recognize bw1 install.

Adol 2021-10-09 7 points

If the original game works properly and is patched and what have you to your standards, the fastest way I've found to get Creature Isle to work is as follows. Mount the ISO provided here and run the autoplay to start the installation wizard, and direct the path to your chosen directory for Black & White. Input the CD key (which is 1501-6102690-0492316-5725) and install Creature Isle. Now the important, yet very missable part. There is a Crack folder located in the ISO. This contains another version of CreatureIsle.exe. Copy this, and replace the CreatureIsle.exe file located in your chosen Black & White directory's CreatureIsle folder. Hope this helps!

TankTheFrank 2021-06-12 -1 point

Has anyone noticed problems with the fireball spell? I remember this game clearly, and throwing other objects is no problem. The fireballs however just fly fast af to the left or the right side.

Reducing the throw speed does nothing other than make it fly straight up or almost not at all?!

CowPow 2021-05-23 2 points

I'm having the same issue as WALLY.
Does not recognize bw1 install.

Don 2021-01-22 1 point

Im having the same issue as rakesh. any help would be greatly appreiciated.

Rakesh 2021-01-09 0 point

When trying to run the game from the crack file, I receive the error: DSETUP.dll not found. What should I do? And when just running it directly from the icon theres no response.

Wally 2020-03-22 9 points

Hey Gents,

I've had the original B&W running with no issues. When I attempt to install creature Isle it's saying no "existing B&W install available"

I've had the original install on a separate drive with all the official patches & fan patches 1.1 - .14 installed. I don't believe this should be an issue.
I need to find a way to redirect the creature isle install to the B&W install on the other drive.

Anyone know of an easy way to do that? cheers

Carl 2019-02-16 1 point

Nevermind guys... didn't "Run as Administator", Sorry.

Carl 2019-02-16 2 points

Back & White no prob with install, patches, addons. Creature Isle no prob install. But game won't save for some reason. any ideas?

latexkitty 2019-01-28 1 point

love this game..
always fun to play
yay =^..^=

Mark Langdahl 2018-12-30 0 point

A little hint: The game basically has borked graphics settings meaning that if you have more than I believe 128 MB of video memory the game gets an overflow resulting in you getting the worst possible textures in the game. You can get around this by using a Direct3D wrapper like dgVoodoo. Just unzip the dll files from the MS folder into the game folder together with the config exe and set it to use GeForce 4 settings. Then it should look its best even on modern hardware.

Jogan81 2017-12-17 1 point

In the crack folder open the .nfo file with notepad. Its in there.

Bob the tomato 2017-07-10 26 points

Serial number 1501-6102690-0492316-5725

danish 2017-06-03 -1 point

I need the serial number

DerangedGaming 2017-03-02 -2 points

Downloaded fine. Can't install as is due to no serial number provided in any folder. Will have to locate a serial code from another source to install.

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