GameSpot UK ECTS Black & White Creature Isles Hands On offers a bit of a more well-rounded look ahead at what's planned for the upcoming Black & White add-on than the preview we mentioned yesterday (story), which like so many of us, was basically obsessed with sex. This newer preview, likewise based on seeing and hearing about the game at ECTS, fleshes out Lionhead's plans to add mini-games to B&W, satisfying the desire so many have expressed for more gameplay than it offered. Making comparisons to the gameplay found in Black & White, which they describe as "in many ways like playing in a sand-box, an open ended and creative experience," they have this to say about the add-on: "Creature Isles' mini-games are like heading down to the arcade with a pocket full of change and a desire to engrave your three initials on the hi-score board. Players import their creature from Black & White, and travel around the isles trying to complete challenges - many of which are based on beating a Brotherhood creature. From smashing high-scores to out racing them, it's all about trouncing them at their own game." They say Creature Isles will include nearly 40 different challenges, all of them re-playable once they are complete. They also go into the relationship with the Tyke character, and a little more on what the add-on will bring to the game, saying:

As well as all the complications and subtleties that the indirectly controlled parent/child relationship introduces into the game, Creature Isles promises to update the AI routines with new actions and behaviours that didn't make it into the release of Black & White. Other improvements include a land-mass that's double the size of the original and new dialogues for the side-kicks (including a Britney Spears joke routine).