Simply put, Spore is by far one of the worst games ever developed in the history of PC games.

For someone as creative and ingenious as Will Wright who’s been responsible for huge titles like Sim City and the Sims this game is awful.

My Qualms:

1. The space stage. Composing of probably 80% of the entire content of the game, yet ONLY ONE SPACESHIP!?!? I’m pretty sure “The Grox” don’t roll around the galaxy in one space ship in face if you play the game to the end you’ll spend your time doing nothing but running from them.

2. The space stage CONT. Why wasn’t more depth and variation added to this part of the game. When my civilization evolved to this stage I couldn’t wait, expecting to create multiple fleets of ships, star fighters, and more mother ships to conquer the galaxy……but alas.

3. Outfits: Again this game falls short in terms of graphical appeal. The outfits do not allow enough flexibility and shouldn’t cost you more money once you’ve purchased the first one. The gameplay is simply awful.

4. Enemies: The tribal and civilization stages just aren’t long enough. Our world has spanned over 2,000 years and the game goes from tribal to space in less then an hour or two. It just doesn’t add up, WAY too simplistic and WAY too fast.

Final Thoughts:

For all the EA Hype surrounding this game I should have seen this coming. Another lackluster game from “EAxis” with Will Wright laughing all the way to the bank while the hardcore Simcity and Sims fans are left in the dust waving our Spore Boxes in a fit of rage.

Rating: 3/10

Pros: Cell Stage is fun, creature stage is appealing.
Cons: Too simplistic and boring. Space stage lacks depth and creativity.

#1 I never played the Demo

#2 You call that exciting? Really? please open my eyes to your way of thinking. I would love to live in such bliss!

#3 AND JUST WHAT GENRE IS IT? what previous game would fit in that genre? MR ANONYMOUS! (seriously, recommend some games to me) I’ll give the game original, but it’s a mess. After they spent alot of time and money on it, they probably noticed it was a mess, and that all the testers would not stop complaining. SO they figured they would pour the rest of their cash into advertising AND ADVERTISE THEY DID (mostly web at first, but when you got the game and found out how bad it sucks, they play the commercial on EVERY channel as if to say “HAHA, YOU FELL FOR IT! THANKS FOR THE $50! AND THE $100 FOR THOSE DUM POSs THAT BOUGHT THE “Galactic Edition” (me) SO LONG!”

Woah, woah, woah, your saying it is our choice to make the creature completely different? If you are to get through the creature stage, you HAVE to get all the stupid-looking CRAP to survive…. err… “win” Also, why can’t we have a sea creature? That would be awesome, if it were an MMO. I mean…. you start in the sea…. but if you try to go back…. a HUGE “Lizard Man” (looks like it’s out of Hanna Barbarra kinda) eats you. Meaning, you can’t cross a channel, or even a slightly large Lagoon.
The cell stage seemed o.k., but has little to do with later on. (except for those “Special Abilities” which make no sense to me) The creature stage reminds me too well of “WoW” (World of Warcraft) which is a game that will break your liking of ANY game that requires grinding. I got a few choice words about WoW, but I’ve learned to keep them to myself (tooth falls out) ANYWHO, I won’t talk about the tribal stage or the Civ. stage except that they should have taken pointers from “Sid Meyer’s Alpha Centauri” THE SPACE STAGE seems so pointless…. there’s no goal…. no fascinating things…. looks like they put more work into the variations of alien dialogue than the Galaxy, AND STOP CALLING IT A UNIVERSE MAXIS…..dam And did you notice there can be only one moon for any planet/ gas planet? Doesn’t jupiter have like 16? err… excuse me… “Satellites” (theres only one “Moon”) and what about nebulas? arne’t those gasses floating around? I don’t know my strology very well, but I thot nebulas are abundant. I could swear I remember a video of Spore showing a crocodile-like animal floating around in the water…. or was that more of their BULL @&$* !!
And what about dinosaurs, and birds? I SOOO wanted to be a bronc-he….o….saurus (however its spelled) but I could only get as tall as say a….. rather small Giraffe. (around the end of the creature stage of course, they made it opposite of how it happened on earth, you start small and get a little bigger, whereas it would seem for the Dinosaurs they were small (cells) then became big (dinos) then get F****d up by an asteroid, and become small. Let’s see… what else…. did I mention how pointless the space stage seems? theres no waves, no mountains, no flowers, (check me on that) no flowing water, no snow, no sleet, no hail, no rain, (did I miss the rain? that should be a given for any game) (tons of “spice geysers” tho) only 9 species of plant or animal, although it didn’t seem like that in the creature stage. I would love to see this game and star wars combined into an online stategy real-time war game/ whatever game.

WHAT I LIKE ABout it… the “suns” (stars); how they look. I thot they looked nice. I like the look and sound of planets that are too close to the “star” (lava planets) and I liked it even more when they play that one music to it. (the one with the steady onset of a sound, a music often played to make things seem transcendent) I liked some of the dialogue of alien races. I liked artifacts. I thought that was a nice, however irrelated, addition to the game. I liked the bombs, but instead of a “Pay-load” it just consumes energy, but, meh, whatever, its offline, so wtf ever

First off: yes, it’s possible that your final creature can look completely different than when you started out. But, that’s your choice! If it looks completely different it’s because you made it look completely different, you didn’t have to. That has nothing to do with the game developers and cannot be used as a bad aspect of the game. If you’re upset about that be upset with yourself for doing it…

Second: true, the first stages of the game (cell, creature, tribal) can go by fairly quickly, but if it does it’s because you chose to move on to the next stage. The game doesn’t force you to. You can stay in the cell stage and in the creature stage to find new parts for your creature, evolve your creature more, and explore the world and interact with the other creatures. I don’t really see any reason to stay in tribal stage though because it seems like there’s not much to it and once you can move on there’s really nothing else to do.

Third: Some of you are saying that the game is not challenging. Have you killed an Epic Creature in the creature stage? Those things have 1,000 hp while you would be lucky if your creatures get much more than 100 and on top of that the Epics can kill you in one hit. If that isn’t challenging then you rock. That is only one of the achievements you can get in the game. There are plenty achievements for each stage and you can find a list of them on gamefaqs.com.

I do enjoy spore but there are some things about the game that could be changed to make it better.

For one, the controls change as you progress through each stage which I find very annoying and confusing.

Two, once you progress past tribal stage you don’t interact with your creature that you spent so long creating anymore. You control vehicles instead. I don’t mind controlling the vehicles but I think you should still be able to control your creatures as well.

Three, after you progress to the space stage you can’t control any of the vehicles you made in the civilization stage anymore. You can only control your space ship.

Also the game can get repetitive at times but overall I think it’s fun. Anyways thats my opinion about spore, it’s not for everyone, especially people who only like action and sports games. but for people who like strategy sim games, you will probably enjoy Spore.

They may as well have named that phase intergalactic babysitter. I tried some cheats to disable the pirate attacks, didn’t even work.

Good job Will, can’t wait to see how bad The Sims 3 will suck.

adios.

Some of us prefer games with a challenge, or story…This is just a toy.

I’ve excited for this game ever since I seen it on my pc in early a stages, I wasted 60$ on this POS, I played for 5 days and the ONLY part I actually enjoyed is the Cell,Creature & Partial tribal.

It completely lacked in every aspect of fun for me, it way to kiddish and was made for children, the space age is when I got up and left the computer, that totally directed the MAIN idea of the game away from the player, which was your creature.

anyways, I wish I could refund because I would, I advise anyone who hasn’t played the game yet to find someone who has and try theirs, unless your rich then it don’t matter.

Overall I give this game 3/10 the sims was more interesting then this game.

1) Incredibly long, trying registration process. Error, error, error. It drove me nuts. They were totally unprepared to support web-based registration.
2) During gameplay long, pointless cutscenes where the developers seemed only to want to impress you with their editing skills.
3) *TERRIBLE* control system
4) the whole thing had a gimmicky, made for grammer school kids feel to it.

I quit it. Deleted game. Now I’m pissed off that I wasted $50 due to all the hype.

Make Spore 2, and make it a little difficult to evolve and allow for way more “paths” and it might be an okay game.

Customizing a boat takes HOURS. But evolving from nest to tribal takes 30 minutes? Bleh. Garbage.