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The next evolution in gaming is upon us. From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes SPORE, an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space.

Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then use the fun, intuitive Editors to evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race. Guide your species as it builds (and the player designs) villages, buildings, cities, and vehicles. Along the way to becoming a global civilization you can choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade, be nice or play rough!

All the action in SPORE takes place in a huge, lush world populated with creatures evolved by other players and shared over SPORE's central servers. When it's ready, your one-time pond scum launches into space in its UFO on a grand voyage of discovery, planet forming, or destruct-ion! As you explore and play in this limitless universe of unique worlds, your personal Sporepedia tracks all the creatures you've met and places you've visited.

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Spore is lots of fun when you're not in the editors you're running around testing out what you've made!

Problem is once you've done it once you don't really have all that many options to do it a different way! You quickly find yourself realising that you're running out of things to do and for a game with so much potential content that's quite shocking! One of my main issues are that creatures are limited in what you can make. Want to make a giant T-Rex that towers over other creatures? The Editor says no can do... What about a creature who uses hands for feet? Ok you can do that but the creature will walk in mid-air... What about a flying creature without legs? Yes so long as you don't mind it flying through the scenery. The more you get away from two arms and legs the more you realise how limited your options truly are!

But if you can over look those times when the game basically tells you NO! Then there's a lot of to be hand!

Brilliant game!
I think the designers are half the fun, creating your own tanks, boats and cities etc.
Each stage of gameplay is just long enough so you don't get bored before moving on, the space stage is just unlimited.
Animation is very smooth, this game is geared towards gameplay, the graphics are quite cartoon-like in appearance.
More fun the second time round once you know what you're doing. Not a game for those who want FPS or shooting.
This will have me playing and designing for a long time! It's a must have!!

Well I totally agree with the reviewer below.
SPORE was so highly hyped which just added to the DISAPPOINTMENT I had to experience.

Like the IGN, Gamespot reviews state, the game is incredible, huge, fun and unique all at the same time. I agree.
However the gameplay is repeditive, the game is rather hideous graphically in my opinion, and there is an issue with it's frame rate or something.
My PC is top of the line and runs all the latest PC masterpieces in FULL SPECS, but this game is jittery and has slight lighting issues.

I'm not going to go ahead and give it ONE STAR, because it seriously isn't terrible, it is fun and is a great achievement by acclaimed Will Wright.

Hopefully many of the issues will iron out over time with patches and updates. But until then, only buy it if you REALLY like the genre. Otherwise just don't.

Overall, I score SPORE 6/10 for graphics/presentation, 9/10 for sound, 5/10 for gameplay, OVERALL 8/10

So, I've been waiting for this game for what must have been 3 years or more now. Eargly awaiting what I thought would be one of the most diverse and longest games I'd get to play. With the oppertunity to evolve and design anything the exact way you want it.

So it finally arrived... oh dear. What a dissapointment. This game was massively hyped, and I really do not understand why. Each stage of the game, from cell to civilization is incredibly limited (read... basic) meaning there is not much to do. To complete each stage is a bit of a breeze. The expception is the last stage... space. This particular area does have quite a bit you can do, but I found it quite tedious and boring tbh, though I'm sure others would enjoy. I expected a BIG game! In one night I had already reached space. And that wasn't even a long night.

Oh well. I think I expect too much from PC games these days. A lot of games tend not to live up to their hype and this is no exception. Overall this is still a good game if you pretend you had never heard anything about it in the past. I also like the MSORG (massively singleplayer online roll-playing game) aspect of it, but thats about it.

SPORE (PC Games)