SPORE™ Collection

I have been playing spore for a long while, but it was only now when I really got back into it and tried it on GOG. Definitely would recommend buying it here over Steam! However, I would say that this game isn't for everyone. I have a little summary on the stages below if you wish to read and see if it's a good game for you: The game in itself isn't made for everyone, but it can be fun if you try out new things! Hard mode can be kind of rediculous with everything they toss at you but that at least follows the concept of that mode...but it's not so great when you are starting the first stage and can't find food before you are swarmed by a whole lot of larger, carnivorous cells that can two-shot you. The creature stage is what I personally argue is the best and most iconic for the game. You can make some pretty neat creatures, or horrifying abominations of nature! It's incredibly fun finding those new parts to fully evolve into the best creature for the run you are trying to pull off. No real complaints aside from migration sometimes being a pain if you have hostile creatures down most of the route to the new nest. Tribal is mostly you either demolishing everyone or throwing gift baskets at everyone in the area until you can exploit enough food to last you the entire stage. Now, I would say from the Tribal stage to the Space Exploration stage is where you either love the game or hate it. You can no longer evolve, and you have to do some quick actions or you'll pretty much be soft-locked in the civilization stage if you act too slow and another nation takes the whole map. And Space?...I am not quite sure about it personally, not my cup of tea. But, if you enjoy exploration and colonization of other planets and a bit of micro-managing? Go for it! There's likely more I haven't seen about it. Overall, Spore for me would be a solid 4 Stars. You can play it differently and try different things, so I would say it's worth the money if that's what you enjoy doing.

Spore is an admirable proof of concept for implementing the idea of evolution across our reachable universe into a game. The gameplay is discretized into several stages, beginning with the player's species as a wiggling protoplasm and ending with its galaxy-wide omnipotence. To be succinct, the 'cell' stage is an enjoyable survival mini-game, the 'creature' stage is a boring scavenger hunt, the 'tribal' stage is an oversimplified strategy game, the 'civilization' stage is a less overly-simplified strategy game, and the 'space' stage is a relatively comprehensive space simulation. There is also the 'adventures' add-on, which is an underwhelming attempt to incorporate role-playing elements to the space stage. Given this wide of a scope, the game sadly does not deliver a consistently entertaining experience. However, Spore does provide an interesting challenge to the player by granting them several options to survive and thrive in the ever-changing environment. Nearly all actions have consequence, which sets up the space stage rather well. The fact that decisions made as a single cell impact the species' subsequent galactic conquest is remarkable and unique to the game. The graphics maintain a cohesive sense of well-polished quirkiness. The generative aspect of its art assets, the many model creation systems, and player-made content sharing features remain innovative to this day. Spore's music is wonderful, relaxing, and very on-theme as it has its own generative nature. It often provokes the right feelings of exploration, discovery, and adaptation throughout the game. The narrative provides a somewhat educational tale of how science has interpreted our creation and potential future, with an abundance of simplifications and science-fiction tropes thrown in. While the experience is not quite greater than the sum of its parts, Spore is recommended to anyone who wants to have some fun playing with the basic notions of evolutionary biology and space simulation.

A nice game. Still stands unparalleled even 10 years after its launch. Can become a bit boring if you find little or zero fun in customization. Personally, I am glad for having bought it in a discount sale after many years of waiting.

不同进化阶段的玩法各不相同，在进入太空之前一直都很有趣，各种器官搭配有不同效果，体验是很不一样的，进入太空之后就感觉玩法有些重复了。

Spore is an oddity. Despite being creatively original, mechanically unique, and immensely popular in its day, it somehow managed to escape being the inspiration for a thousand cash-grabbing copycats. This means that, nearly two decades later, Spore is still a one-of-a-kind classic that retains its novelty for any modern-day gamer just now deciding to give it a go. To start off, the scope of this game is absolutely, absurdly massive. I mean that thematically AND mechanically. Each savegame spans billions of years. Your perspective starts with a single-celled organism and gradually zooms out, so to speak, to encompass an entire galaxy. To illustrate this huge amount of time and evolution, the game actually *changes genres* no fewer than four times. And we're not splitting hairs here, either - the game literally goes from "flOw" to RPG to RTS to a hybrid space-trading god-sim. You will go from putting eyes on an ameoba to putting sails on a ship to putting genetically engineered lifeforms on any planet you wish. Just the fact that all of this is present in a single game is insane and beautiful. So why didn't its novelty and popularity spawn a host of lifeless Spore clones? Because it's not actually a very good game. Spore quickly becomes butter spread over too much bread. Each of its many states of being is a shallow gameplay experience that, because they are all only vaguely interrelated, fails to lend depth to any of the others. You will always come away from it feeling that something was missing - that perhaps you had just played a feature-stripped open beta. Then you remember that it was 2008, and this was just how it shipped. But with all of that said, there's still something wonderful about it. You need an imagination to fill in the gaps, but I enjoy that. Do try it out. You will either find it charming and come back to it every now and again (as I do), or you will be bored and never come back. Either way, it's a rarity you've got to experience at least once.