Anyone who played the original: Get this game!
The graphics are a huge improvement, and the music is every bit as amazing as the originals was. Ai is also amazing.
Tutorials cover the first 3 lands, but you'll get past lands 1 and 2 easily enough (especially land 2). Land 3 you can go fast or take your time (like any of the lands I guess). There are many objectives on each land, but you can pick and choose what you do. Doing objectives earn you 'Tribute' that lets you buy new buildings, units and creature skills. So many people may want to do them all. But some are good, some are evil.
You can build up huge, beautiful cities and win the land by basically getting everyone to immigrate to your city, or you can make a huge army and send them into battle to smash your opponents. And of course you have your creature. Training him is a lot easier this time, and they look so amazing. I get the feeling the AI is smarter than us though, and as such the training is dumbed down to the point that it feels restrictive slightly. But I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Controls are basically the same as the original. Mainly mouse work (starts out the opposite way to BnW but you can swap it back round to 'normal' mode). You can also use keyboard shortcuts to do stuff, which again are *mainly* the same as the originals.
If you're looking for a real tough game, then so far I wouldn't recommend this (but only being on the first real land, I can't really say) but if you like free-roaming type games, this one will be for you. You can spend literally hours building up cities or conquering them, and following your creature around.
Anyhoo, I'm gonna be obsessed with this game for a looooong time
I'll post some screenshots later
Dunno about the tutorial...that was really annoying about the first game. Peter Molyneux needs to be strangled a bit (but not unto death) so he removes that stupidity in B&W3.
And now they have even better AI, they've had to restrict it in case BnW2 starts playing the players. *sigh* Coz if you just watch the crt, its' really amazing to see how they decide to do things, suddenly change their minds, skid to a halt and head off in a new direction etc.
