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Spore

Also known as: Spore Creatures (DS)

Spore

A new creation myth

Caring for your race is about logistics, diplomacy and management. Choosing what buildings to construct is one problem, another is deciding whether to finish off the creatures next door. When you finally gather enough resources to build a UFO, you’ll enter the space phase.

This is the meat of Spore - you’re given a galaxy full of races and terraforming missiles to play with. Planet hopping, first contact making, death-star building: it’s a game of almost unlimited scale. But like all of these phases, there are problems.

What’s described above are skeletons of games - fantastic concepts, but with little real idea of what you’ll do from minute to minute. This is Spore’s real issue - it’s filled with all this amazing stuff, but we still have no idea if it’s fun. We loved making our own little creature, but we’ve no idea what we’ll be doing with it.

 
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krakken46 - 1 month 11 days ago
like i said in other comments 10/10
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Spore
Spore

Genre: Strategy
Expected release date: 09/07/2008
Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Maxis
Designer: Will Wright
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
1 player SOLO
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