Black & White coming to DS, PSP

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It's just like Nintendogs! Except there's different animals, and you can viciously abuse them! Indeed, Lionhead's infamously flawed God game will be heading to the DS platform, courtesy of Majesco.

Peter Molyneux has no involvement in the game, which is good news to anyone hoping it will be fun in addition to high-concept. (Sorry. We still love you, Mr. Molyneux.) Majesco has drafted UK studio Full Fat to make the conversion, the same developer that is producing Advent Shadow and BloodRayne for the PSP.

Black & White is obviously a perfect fit for the platform, as the PC original featured a gesture-based interface that seems made for a stylus. Head over to IGN for a brief preview with screenshots.

For those who are somehow unaware of the original Black & White, it allowed you to play a good or evil God, reigning over a tribe and also teaching and feeding a creature that assisted you in Earthly matters. Although the game featured very advanced creature AI, its compaign has been much criticized for being rather uninvolved.

Besides the DS game, which is to be called Black & White Creatures, mention is made of a PSP Black & White, though no screenshots of that version are yet given. Both handheld games are said to have multiple play modes alongside the standard singleplayer campaign, including "Creature Quest", "Creature Pen" and "Creature Battle", which uses the the wi-fi functionality. As to be expected there's also a set of minigmes, including a game that teaches your creature to dance.

Posted by Marek Bronstring

Associated Games
- Black & White Creatures

Associated Companies
- Majesco
- Full Fat

[netmonkey]

Majesco is like the Joker, toward the end of Tim Burton's Batman, in a parade dancing to Prince and throwing money around.

[manny_c44]

There's so many problems with even the original game that it's hard to be optimistic about a scaled down port. I hope it works out though, the DS could use more games of this type. The PSP version's going to be a mess without a mouse or stylus though.

[Rodi]

I think it may work better on the DS if they get it right. But I won't get it. Maybe if it's real cheap and it gote great reviews. And Idle Thumbs would stuff it in my face long enough.

[lailoken]

yeah but I doubt the DS actually has the graphics power to pull B&W off successfully, the PSP on the other hand doesn't have the stylus... BLAST!

[Rodi]

I saw Super Mario DS just now and it looked pretty awesome. It convinced me that the DS has quite some graphic power.

[J0hn]

Rodi:

I saw Super Mario DS just now and it looked pretty awesome. It convinced me that the DS has quite some graphic power.

Really? I played Ridge Racer and it convinced me that the DS has bugger all graphical power.

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Note: I still quite like the DS though!