Spore is a highly creative, addicting, fun game. Anyone who says it is crap shouldn't be playing games in the 1st place.
Word to the people who HAVE played this game, go to the end of the review to see my score.
Ok heres the lowdown;
You start out on the first of five stages (the cell stage) as a tiny cell. You can mate to enter the cell creator to add on new parts like spikes, or mouths. Differernt mouths will change if you are a carnivore, herbivore or both. This is very important. You find new parts and eventually grow legs and become a creature.
This is where it gets fun. It is almost like cell stage, only with some differences:
1. It is a 3D environment (aren't you lucky)
2. You have other nestmates that will help you
3. You can now befriend other creatures, if you are a diplomat or some thing
4. Finally, new parts and creature molding
Note: There are 100+ parts you can find everywhere
so keeep a look out
So anyways you walk around, befriend people, attack people, edit your creature, collect food, yada yada yada
This is getting to be a long review, so lets speed thru these next 2.
Tribal Stage: Plays as an RTS game (you move a whole tribe) your money is food. Collect food to get more $$$.
Go to war with tribes or befriend them with your cute little horns or your axe of death if you wish.
Civilization ( Civ):
Fairly simple. If you have ever played civilization you will get the idea, only you are awarded with, not 1, not 2, but 8 new creators! This is really the place to get your creativity on. Anyways,your main source of money is spice, so attack those little red things, K? You can now capture cities instead of burning them to the ground. You build your money and cities to get bombs and airplanes. once you capture every city (kudos to the ICBM bomb)you now rule the world and move to space stage.
Space Stage: The moment we've all been waiting for, this is... THE SPACE STAAAGGEEEEE. When you start out in the space stage, you first build you spaceship. then, you have to do a tedious little minigame where you learn how to fly. BORING. After you do that, you do, well, whatever. You can befriend other empires or attack them. My advice is to befrien them first, so they don't blow up your cities till you can blow up theirs. Your main objective (whether you know it or not) is to get to the center of the galaxy. This is probably the funnest stage in the game. Have fun! lol
Ok, the review:
Spore is a great game. It seems that almost no one at gamespot knows that. Just 'cause its rated E doesn't mean its boring and cheap. Just 'cause its rated M doesn't mean its good. Make no mistake, i'm a BIG Halo player and that doesnt mean i can't like spore.
AAAAH! i still havent written the REVIEW!
Ok: I give spore a very high 9 because it is creative, ambitious, and fun. The remaining points detracting from a 10 is that they should make it even more challenging on the hardcore players in the 2nd version