However, they can just start over at the individual planets and scale down to the cellular level again, making different decisions to see what crawls out of the ocean this time. The space part of the game is huge (sort of like space) and much more complex than the previous four stages put together.Įven though it is satisfying to see the arc of going from cells to the stars, ultra-casual gamers may finally become overwhelmed at this point. You get into tussles with other space-faring empires as you colonize the galaxy. Entire planets can be made over to support life. As you spread across the universe, you discover planets with ongoing civilizations and barren worlds. This stage plays out like a streamlined "Sid Meier's Civilization," but with more customization tools for the player.įinally, you take off into the stars to enter the cosmic race. Diplomacy gets you pretty far, but sometimes violence is unavoidable. The goal is to grow and eventually spread your culture around the home world. Once on land, your always-evolving creatures compete for domination with rival tribes in \"Spore.\" For example, building a factory raises your income, but your creatures get tired and need some form of social release - so it's a good idea to invest in something like a theater. You must balance industry and personal happiness. Here, you master commerce and construction, building vehicles and entire cities.
Once you establish your top tribe, you launch into the civilization sequence. The controls and pacing are easy enough for casual players to get into it without realizing they are actually playing a simplified real-time strategy game like "Command & Conquer." A live-and-let-live choice at the cellular level can lead to a tribe of creatures that seek power through friendship rather than violence. Here, you are offered your first important decision: Is your little spore an herbivore or meat-eater? You are choosing between hunter and forager, and the effects of this decision are long-reaching. The initial stage occurs under the microscope, seconds after a comet seeds your planet with the building blocks for life. Each represents a step on the evolutionary ladder. This is a massive game that requires thousands of decisions to get from a speck in a muddy tide pool to galactic conqueror. To say the scale of "Spore" is epic is to insult the definition of the word.
You guide a creature from the first moment of life through its rise as the dominant species of its home planet, eventually sending your creations into the cosmos to colonize the galaxy. Shepherded by Will Wright, the genius behind the mega-selling "Sims" series, "Spore" starts several zillion generations back from his famous virtual humans. "Spore" celebrates the artistry of evolution.
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