A Disappointment indeed... however not a major one. I got the game yesterday, for all you name callers it came out in AUS yesterday, and I played it for about 10 hours strait. In my opinion, the game is to shallow. Yes, I said shallow. I was expecting a deep and anything is possible type game play. Instead, I think I spent more time designing my spore, buildings, and vehicles, then I did in actual game play. The only real fun stages of the spores life are the first-two and the last. The last is only fun if you like space sim games, like MOO2, yet for kids. The middle few stages play like a very cheaply made command and conquer game, with no true elements of challenging strategy. The game did give me a few laughs and I still want to play around with it a little more in hopes that something interesting will come out of it.

To wrap it all up. Spore was a great idea, however, the game is to short, to easy, repetitive and to shallow. The game is fun for the non-average to average gamer, but only good for a few days of play for the die hard gamers.

I give the game a 10* for trying a new idea

but I would only give it a 6* for game play.