Spore is a game that takes a little bit of a lot of games and puts them into one package. The game is a bit shallow.
The game is broken up into stages: Cell stage, Creature stage, Tribal stage, Civilization stage, and Space stage. You start off as a single cell organism and move on to exploring the entire universe. The game does a great job of showing the player how completely tiny we humans are in the grand scheme of things. While all the stages are interesting, they just seem like watered down versions of great games. Mr. Wright took a lot of the simple building blocks of RTS's, RPG's, and added his own flavor. While a very cool concept, the game could have been a lot deeper in terms of actual game play. Once you get over the initial awe at the scope of this game, it doesn't do a great job of holding your attention is what I am trying to say. It's one of those games that I would recommend to anyone in an instant because it is so original in its ideas that you HAVE to see it. It's a game that is like gawking at a crazy auto wreck on the highway, you have to look, but you aren't going to pull over and hang out with the cops while they sort through the rubble. You will still spend an amazing amount of hours in this game if you like building and creating things. That's where I am going to get all of my game play. I will make a lot of creatures and ships and upload them to the Sporepedia so that other players can rate them and use them in their universes. If you like originality like I do, you will definitely not want to miss this one. It just doesn't have the playability from a gameplay standpoint to hold water with how original and ambitious of a project it was.