Black & White 2 is a video game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts released in October 2005.

The player is physically represented in the world as an avatar-like creature, which takes the form of a giant anthropomorphic ape, lion, wolf, turtle, cow, or tiger.

The creature can grow to an immense size, and adopt a good or evil persona based on how the player rewards or punishes their actions.

In addition to the god simulation and city-building elements introduced in the original Black & White, Black & White 2 also features elements of real-time strategy gameplay, with the addition of controllable warfare and fighting units.

To do things such as cast miracles, the player moves the hand in such a way to make a symbol on the ground, referred to as a gesture.

There are six ordinary miracles: fire, lightning, water, shield, heal, and meteor, (each of which can be thrown or poured), and four epic wonders mireacles: siren, hurricane, earthquake, and volcano, which require their respective epic wonder building to be charged and cast.

The player comes upon a scene of a Greek city being devastated by a huge Aztec army after being summoned from a "pure prayer".

It includes a new creature, new lands, miracles, enemies, challenges and the tiger from the Black & White 2 Special Edition.

The premise involves the player's return to Eden, where they discover that the Aztecs have raised their own evil deity which must be confronted head-on for control of the land.