So much was promised, so little was delivered

User Rating: 6.5 | Spore PC
By GeckoOne | Review Date:
Is there any way we can get what we were promised as recent as 2006? There used to be underwater, creature dragging creature after a kill, flora editing, more SUBSTANCE!

Instead we get 10 minute minigames until you get to space where they took "all the good from MMOs" and put them in the game. Oh and by that they mean the insane tedium of doing the same thing over and over and being forced into certain actions if you want to "finish the game" (get to the center of the galaxy). So much for the sandbox we were promised.

This game could be so much, but EA and their greediness have ruined it. They forced removal of so much content (likely so they could have an early expansion) that the game is no longer a game. Hopefully it's not broken beyond repair, but I will unlikely be *purchasing* any future expansions until the game reaches the level of what the game should have been at release.

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