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Geek Culture / Help me identify 90s game - "Good & Evil"

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Chris K
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Posted: 28th Oct 2006 23:51
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I really, really, vividly remember reading a preview of a game I am 90% sure was called Good & Evil, in PC Gamer in about 1998.

I can picture one screenshot in particular, which was of a boat in a harbour, with some people on it. The camera was high and far out like an RTS. The game was 3D.

I think there was also a screenshot of some cows grazing in a field.

I think that game was an RPG but I can't be sure.

I have a weird feeling that this was just a very early example of what became Black & White. Certainly the graphics were similiar (though these were worse), and the names are suspiciously close.

Does anyone know anything about this game? It had a multi page preview in PC Gamer, and it was tipped to be a revolutionary game - it can't have just disappeared!!

Did it turn into Black & White?

-= Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals =-
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Chris K
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 00:03
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Yay! I found it!!

It wasn't Black & White, it did just disappear.

It was designed by Ron Gilbert!

There's some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gilbert

I'll try and dig up some stuff.

It's a bit sad really, Gilbert was a f**king legend, and Good & Evil was his Magnus Opus, but it never got finished, his companies died during production

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:00
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Definitely a legend, Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion are pure genius.

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Chris K
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:04
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Well it took some digging, but I managed to find a screenshot!



Can you see why I thought it turned into Black and White?

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Gamedesign er20
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:20 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:20
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It looks somewhat like the gameplay style of Black & White, but deffenitly too cartoony to actually be the game.

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
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Chris K
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 11:07
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There's an awesome article here about what went wrong at Cavedog after Total Annihilation:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=242

It's a very good read, if a bit depressing.

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