Fun With Spore

Ever on the look out for new ways of having fun we discovered the fiendishly addictive world of browsing the Sporepedia . Haven’t heard of Spore? It’s a new game for the DS and PC which is a bit like a cross between Sim Earth and Animal Crossing in which you populate your ecosystem with beasts you create. Anyway, there’s a thread about the game here on the SFX forum, which is where we found this fine specimen of spore Cyberman (left) created by DarthHoob. He casually mentioned there were a few Daleks on the Sporepedia (part of the Spore website, and so, of course, we had to investigate.

And that’s when we got hooked. You do a search for Dalek, giggle at some attempts, go wow at others, and then you just have to a search for Cyberman. And then Adipose. And then TARDIS. And then you wonder what other shows might have inspired Spore beasts. So you put in Chewbacca. And then…

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