7.5
Interesting start however it fails to successfully do later stages of evolution. The first two stages basically feel like small mini games and the third stage is a small RTS influenced stage that seemed like a very interesting idea but it can be finished within 10 minutes. It basically feels like 5 different games in one, however none of them are done well enough, This mainly happens when you jump into the RTS civilization stage. At this stage your only given 3 different types of buildings to build, Homes, Factories and Fun. The only advantage or goal of building the 3 different buildings is to increase the income of the resource your planet offers by mixing Work(Factories) with fun and housing. The RTS combat felt very tact on as you only have 3 different units to build being ground, air and sea. However all the buildings and vehicles are customizable. However none of the customizations makes the vehicles visually act any different other than the way they move(Float or wheels).The final stage, space, is basically like Space Rangers 2 the game with a mix to it. However you're left with very little to do in the world other than repetitive tasks to gain money to upgrade your ship or expand your empire. The combats now is all done mainly by ship and simply isnet complex enough to enjoy as all your doing is clicking on other ships and towns to destroy them. I still recommend you guys give the game a try but you may actually end up losing more interest in the game as you progress.
Good- Interesting gameplay, Amazing creature customization, endless like gameplay.
Bad- All 5 areas of gameplay are not done as well as they could have been and feel tact on, Short can be beaten within 10 hours of gameplay.
First stage-Cell, you play a mini game to eat other cells and you grow bigger as you eat more and obtain some of their traits to customize your guy to better survive in the cell world. Basically you click around and eat other guys as if you were a fish, appears as a 2D min game. Also if your a meat eater or not you eat different things.
Second stage-Creature, you carry on any characteristics from your cell form and can remove them. You start off by simply attaching a pair of feet on your guy and seeing a pack of creatures just like yours pop out of the water and follow you. A nest is created and your goal is to go around and hunt other creatures or fruits if your a vegetarian. The only thing you do in this mode is gather body parts and kill monsters, you some times have to find your pact if they migrate. The more dudes or things you eat allows your brain to grow, once it reaches human size you win. The controls are WASD to move and space bar to jump, mouse to attack and use abilities taken from other creatures. The coolest feature here was giving my creature wings so he could fly.
Third Stage- Tribal, The creatures nest basically turns into a town layout and the game changes into a RTS. You no longer have full movement or customization abilities as you did in the creature stage. But rather your creature becomes a chiefs men and commands the other troops, controls are like a standard RTS. You are given a few different types of building however they are very similar. The town center is a small hut in which you can customize your troops and spawn more soldiers, basically your people, however they take at least a minute or more to reach adult size. You're goal is to wipe out the other 5 tribes and collect food from either animals or fruits; you can also steal other tribes food. Once you defeated another tribe you gain some of their goods like armors and new buildings. A few buildings are a fisherman's house, basically allowing an alternate from of food. First aid house trains shaman, 3 different weapon houses allows your troops to be equipped with axes, fire sticks and spears which offer different effects, AXEs good for troops, fire sticks for buildings and spears for troops as well but at ranged combat. You can also build 3 other house to use to impress the other tribes rather than kill them. These house are 3 different instruments. Customizing troops at this stage does offer them different effects such as more health, attack or peaceful skills.
Fourth Stage- Civilization, basically once you've reached a human sized brain you evolve to this stage. Now you must design your town capital, tanks and so fourth the things I listed up top in the review. The goal is to either kill or perused the other individuals around you, their all basically your race. Also at this stage depending on how you've been through your growth deter minds what special skills you get like if your a war type you get war like special moves like missiles and the same goes for being good. There are also recourses you need to collect to increase your income called spice which is taken over by either of the 3 vehicles depending on the location of the spice.
Fifth Stage- Space, It's basically like Space Rangers 2. You're give a ship to customize and your goal is to travel to other planets, explore them to find treasure which you can sell, build a town on them. However many of the planets are unhabitable in which you have to buy a device to change the habitat. There are 3 levels of environment acceptances. T1,T2,T3. Basically you need to first buy a device to change the planets habitat than steal a few animals and trees from other planets to stabilize the habitat. You can also take on missions from other races and develop trade agreements. Most of the missions are to go find this and bring it back or kill this animal that's spreading a disease. The ship controls are pretty basic and appear kind of like your playing FF7 or FF8 moving around the planet. The ship is capable of collecting different animals, trees, attacking, changing the landscape and building other colonies. The ship can also be upgraded by buying upgrades for it such as better weapons, health and energy, none of these are visible on the ship.
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