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Very disappointed
I should have saved the fifty bucks. Being a long-time fan of Sims 1 and Sims 2, I thought Will Wright could do no wrong, and Spore was hyped as the newest, the greatest, the most fantastic thing to come out of his mind. Bought it, installed it, and then became terrifically bored after about 3 hours of playing, and have not taken it out of its box since.
You get to make a creature. You chose carnivorous or herbivorous For the first little while you have a tiny water-dwelling cell-like thing, and IF he can find meteorite parts, you can add features to him. They are not easy to find. Mostly he just swims around eating and avoiding being eaten (most of the time) until finally enough time passes to move onto land. Then it's find parts (usually around the nests of other creatures which are often aggressive), and wander around eating or either making friends or attacking and killing other creatures. Plant eaters are easier, since there are always fruit trees around and you don't need to kill something in order to eat, but the downside is that they are inclined to not be as tough and, therefore, more likely to be killed.
The mating sequence is a rather stupid cutscene that you get tired of after about one play.
There are other stages after this, but I haven't bothered to stay awake long enough to advance that far. It's really not a very good game.
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2000+ can not be wrong
Spore is a could have been great game.
Sometimes a production team is having so much fun with designing a product that they forget to make the product. Then production reminds them that they have to ship something. So the team ships something. Spore seems be one of those products. Spore is 5 games in one. The first 3 are short pre-school games. The 4th game is a simple and short world conquest game. The 5th game is a galactic lackey game. This is the big game and all you really get from the first 4 games are icons for the 5th game. You are the pilot of a space ship and you fly around doing all the work and earning all the money so the home world can have a empire. To make it even less fun, the more you grow your empire, the more the game nags you with BS.
Better games are out there.
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A Good Beginning and Then Disappointment
Spore had a lot of potential, however, poor design choices have crippled what could have truly been a spectacular game. A common complaint (which I completely agree with) focuses around the lack of depth in this game. For example, the creature you design is affected in a very limited manner by the shape or stature of its body (id est; uneven weight distribution will not really make for an awkwardly running creature). It also seems as if (cell stage aside), the placement of specific parts does not affect behavior (a spiky tail simply adds attack value; the creature doesn't actually use it).
In addition, the Space Stage is a nightmare. Colony and empire management are horrible, the universe is way overpopulated, the missions are boring and repetitive, and the design of alien empires is complete garbage (going back to the lack of depth, the same shallow personalities are recycled over and over again). I was really looking forward to this stage of the game, and was VERY disappointed by what I found. Imagine having to construct every city on a planet building by building in a moderately sized empire of 35 worlds. Imagine having to constantly fend off attacks by raiders, or else hunt down diseased animals to prevent ecosystem collapse over and over again so that you cannot concentrate well on whatever task you want to pursue (like empire building or terraforming).
Until an expansion pack is released, which fixes at least some of these issues, this game is going on the shelf to collect dust. Try it out if you must, but be forewarned that it is not at all what it could have been.
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If only
Would have been a great game, side the fact that I can't touch it again for fear of losing the ability to play it. Install failed the first time, but I'm still down to a maximum of 2 valid downloads. All in all, a decent game, not worth the hassle though
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GREATEST GAME EVER! (Ignore the whiners here)
All the moaning about DRM is laughable. By the time you'd install this game on the now allowable 5 machines you'll be long done with it and if not, the process to add will have minimal impact on your life.
That aside, this is by far the single most creative game ever imagined, yet alone released. It is a momental effort that gives the player more depth and explorative consideration than ever before. While the somewhat kid-like quality of the graphics and creatures may be off-putting to some, it keeps the player firmly entrenched in an alternate reality than plays well for escapism. It's the antidote to the tired old realism apparatus so en vogue.
Wil Wright is a genius whose work should be celebrated by those who have played any of his masterpieces. I saw him present a demo of this at SXSW last year and it rocked my world. The idea that you could create a universe is a lofty, if not seemingly impossible task and Wright has successfully delivered.
Whiners be damned! Buy Spore if you love games and having a good time!
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