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User Rating: 8 | Spore PC
I first purchased the Spore Creature Creator a while back and had a blast creating all sorts of creatures. I couldn't wait for the game to come. I put the game into my PC and started playing right away and was instantly addicted. It's a fun game that draws any player into a world of their own creativity. I've never seen a game so driven by user generated content. Maxis did a good job of meshing everyone's creations together into one big galaxy. The cell stage was a good tutorial of sorts to immerse you into how the game is played and how the player should evolve their creature. The creature stage was a ton of fun. Browsing for parts, making friends or enemies and running from the occasional epic creature makes it a fun stage. The tribal stage and civilization stage are a complete disappointment though. I was able to complete each in under an hour. The space stage is where the game shines. Having more than 50,000 planets that you can visit with extraterrestrial empires spread throughout the galaxy really shows how immense a studio can make a game. While parts of Spore are average, the game does create a new genre of game completely driven by the players.