Well I'll write this from the perspective of some one who played B&W1.
The second instalment has it's improvements but overall there are more new bugs then fixes.
The creature interaction has been dumbed down to a point where it's no fun anymore. In the first game creature training was very hard and frusturating but gave you wonderful results if you put time into it. In this game its very basic. Everytime the creature does something you get a slider bar that allows you to set that action for "never do it" to "do it as much as you can".
At the moment the creatue AI is frusturating and it suffers from ADD constantly jumping from one task to another. There also seems to be very little veriety in the number of things a creature can do.
Where the game improved is city building. Your vilager AI improved tremendasly. The town can actually take care of it self now. There are more Good and Evil building options and more buildings in general.
There have been some embelishments to the RTS side of the game. You get melee and archer units as well as seige weapons. It's still very basic though. No strategy really.
The computer AI doesnt exist. Everything is scripted. At times the computer will actually respond but most of the time it does nothing. I had a creature walk into the middle of it's town and begin to destroy buildings while six of it's platoon just stood there.
Over all. 6.5/10.
Cheers.
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