SPORE™ Collection

Crashes frequently. The game is obviously good but this version is not the most stable thing in the world...

After about an hour of gameplay, the freezes start. So long as you don't want to evolve anything on your critter, the game runs just fine. But 9/10 freeze issues are consistantly happening when exiting Evolution editing. Glad I only paid 7.99 for this.

An ambitious god simulator where you start as a creature and work your way up to conquering the center of the galaxy, i.e.: creature in water -> creature on land -> tribes -> cities -> space The creature stages are especially fun where you get to use an intuitive modeler to create limbs on a creature and the system will dynamically animate how they move. The creative parts become progressively meaningless in terms of how they affect gameplay as you move up the levels though. The tribal and city stages are basically Civilization/Starcraft clones, but are very basic and is over way too quickly. The space stages can get boring and/or tedious, but that's if you are forcing a certain playstyle. To me, its really about figuring out for yourself the most efficient and varied methods to find a balance between maximizing income, fulfilling the badge requirements, and having some fun to unlock things that helps beat the game. The interstellar travel, on-foot missions, space combat, and alliances with aliens kind of resemble Star Control 2 or Mass Effect. At some point, you do become a god in that you can create, tweak, uplift, and/or destroy all manner of life as well as terraform or destroy planets to your liking. Despite its shortcomings, its fun to get back to every now and then, and is definitely for those who like creating things.

I have loved this game since before it launched and I had the creature creator in my hands. After launch i spent hundreds of hours playing it. My son started playing it when he was three years old and he loves it to this day. I lost my disc after our last move but have been craving it and just had to get it again. Nothing beats the cartoony fun of raising the species from cell to space; changing the many parts; going herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore, designing buildings and ships... truly an awesome game for any age group.

For years I ignored this game, why I dunno. Maybe because of some of the many negative ratings it received. They were totally unfounded, this is one of the most fun unique casual strategy games you will ever find, and I've been playing strategy games since before video games were created. Make friends with your neighbor creatures that have an arm and foot growing out of their head and eyeballs on their butt. Or make your own creation grow with an arm and foot growing out of its head and eyeballs on its butt. Create what you want; but keep in mind, once you're advanced enough, you have to join the rest of the world. Be friends? Kill them all? Be a cannibal? You go from being a microbe to a land walker, evolving through time to become tribal w/ the opportunity to make friends or enemies, advancing your knowledge through the DLC to eventually get to space. Much like all the reviews I read before I got this game, I don't really give you anything to go on in describing this, just go to YT and watch The Sim Supply playthrough. And especially on a sale that includes all of the DLC for this price, you will be missing out if you don't grab this fun casual strategy gem.