May the Best Monster Win
By Brad Cook
When you complete the unique real-time strategy/role-playing game Black & White, you become an all-powerful, omnipotent god with legions of worshippers and a powerful creature at your side. So what does one get the god who has everything?
You Better Pass With Flying Colors
There’s a secret behind these trials, however: they were devised by a mysterious creature called Eve, who longs for the ideal mate. If your creature can pass her gauntlet of tests, he will win her affection. Not all of her tests are physical, though: some require your creature to exhibit such skills as gardening or playing a good game of hide-and-seek. And the most important test involves how your creature raises Tyke, a little beast that he discovers early in the game. Eve values parental skills, so if you’ve raised your creature correctly, he will treat Tyke well and score points with his bride-to-be.
Like your creature did with you, Tyke learns from his master’s actions and will want to follow him everywhere. If he gets in the way during any of the trials, you can click on the Creature Minder’s hut and have the woman who lives there watch him, but don’t rely on her too often or Eve will disapprove of your creature’s parenting ability.
New People and New Creatures
While there aren’t as many little people to interact with in this expansion pack as there are in Black & White, you’ll run across a few of them while guiding your creature through Eve’s trials. For example, while tending to Arkle’s crops during his test, pay attention to the guard named Romeo and his desire to be alone with a local girl named Juliet, whose father isn’t happy about the relationship. You can meddle with the characters involved in this Shakespearean drama and see how it plays out, if you wish.
In addition to the 15 creatures available in the original game, Creature Isle offers three new ones: the chicken, crocodile, and rhino. As you unlock each of them, you can switch your creature’s body type to one of the new ones if you think it will give you a better advantage during a trial.
So are you ready to help your creature earn Eve’s eternal adoration? You can get started by visiting the online Apple Store, an Apple retail store, or a certified Apple reseller location near you to find a copy of Black & White Platinum Edition.
Only on Creature Isle could you play soccer with a tortoise.
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System Requirements:
 | Full version of Black & White required to play |
| Mac OS X or Mac OS 8.6 or higher |
| 333MHz PowerPC G3 processor |
| 128MB of RAM |
| 750MB of free hard disk space |
| OpenGL compatible 3D graphics card with at least 8 MB of VRAM |
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