Spore Review

Spore

Usually, my reviews start by a genre reference, but this was not possible with this game. Spore was one of the most anticipated games in recent years, 4 to be precise. When I first learned about the game, couple of weeks ago, I thought it was The Sims meeting Pokémon…and god was I wrong…

Spore achieves what most games fail to do nowadays…Fill me with joy whenever I launch the game…The game is very colourful and you have unlimited amounts of customization on your civilization, it will be quite hard to find similar looking characters, vehicles or buildings.
One of the many unique things Spore has is that every stage your cell advances, you get a gameplay change…For Example…The tribal stage is a an RTS while the creature stage is an 3rd person action game. In Spore, there are 5 stages your cell needs to go through. The cell stage, which is like an old school arcade game, creature stage, which plays like a 3rd person action game, tribal stage, very simple RTS, the civilization stage, Traditional RTS, and the Space Stage, a unique massively single player online stage. I know for most of you never heard of massively single player online games before…and that’s because Spore is the only game to be categorized in such genre. In the Galaxy Stage you travel through many solar systems, populated by different galaxies with civilizations that other Spore players created…They might be played by the CPU but those are civilizations your friend or you’re foe created.

Spore’s music is not of any particular greatness, but its good enough to keep me going. The different noises that the creatures make though are pretty spectacular, as are the conversations you have with other tribes and aliens on the civilization stage and galaxy stage.

It has already been about 18 days since Spore has been released and all over the internet there are people ranting and hating on the game because of DRM*. The problem has been resolved and u shouldn’t worry about it.

My closing thoughts for Spore are that casual gamers should definitely buy this game because it will introduce them to a whole bunch of genres in a light way. Hyped Gamers(Who have been waiting for the game for a long time)already bought the game, so I don’t know why I am talking to you guys, but if you didn’t and your saving all your allowance just for this game….Please Don’t buy it, I don’t want to see one more Spore rant. For the Hardcore Gamer Its basically 50-50…I myself enjoyed the game, so consider buying it. This game might not be the hardcore experience but it’s sure as hell fun.

8 out of 10

Graphics-8 Gameplay-9

Sound-8 Lasting Appeal-6

*DRM (Digital Rights management)*
http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2008/05/maxis-responds-to-the-spore-drm-controversy.php