Posted on: September 22, 2016
J_Darnley
Games: 691 Reviews: 4
The worst game I ever pirated
Spore had much hype leading up to its release. It was touted as being a masterpiece from designer Will Wright (of SimCity and Maxis fame) in which you could guide the evolution of a species. What we got was 5 shallow mini-games stuck end to end. The 1st has you controlling a creature, strictly in 2D. You swim around, eat food, and avoid other bigger creatures. You collect "DNA points" in some form which then allows you to evolve parts onto your creature. Spikes, teeth, mouths, various locomotion parts. No real depth the evolution. It was somewhat like character customisation in any RPG When you finally leave the primordial ooze you enter the 2nd part of the game where you fight to become the dominant form of life on the planet. You romp about a small continent in search of yet more body parts and food, either vegetarian or carnivorous. This time in more of a 3D world with different but still shallow action. Transitioning to the 3rd and you leave control over a single character and now control a tribe of your finalised creatures. Now you must make a civilization. Gameplay now changes to be more RTS like. You still gather food and try to fight other tribes of your creatures to become dominant on your continent. When you do that you move to the 4th stage. You civilization is now in the modern era. You get to design a few buildings, using much the same designer as you did for the creatures. You fight other "countries" to gain control over the planet. When you've done that I've heard you get to fly about in space. That would be the 5th stage. I never bothered to make it that far. I didn't want to. Allegedly you could fly around to other planets which were going to be populated by the creations of other people. No, not multiplayer just seeing what content they had made for EA to put in its game. Now that brings me to the Creature Creator. That was the best bit making various Eldritch Abominations (and cock monsters). You would never be able to make anything like those in game because you could never have enough "DNA points" to buy all those appendages.
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