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Spore

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  • User Score (293)
    7.4 7.4 from 293 reviewers
  • Expert Score (161)
    8.1 8.1 from 161 reviewers
  • Gameplay (87)
    7.3 7.3 from 87 reviewers
  • Graphics (101)
    7.1 7.1 from 101 reviewers
  • Sound (120)
    6.7 6.7 from 120 reviewers
  • Control (4)
    8.1 8.1 from 4 reviewers
  • Lifespan (8)
    7.9 7.9 from 8 reviewers
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Spore™ is your own personal universe in a box. In this universe you can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilisations and even sculpt entire worlds. In Spore you have a variety of creation tools at your disposal that allow you to customise nearly every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. While Spore is a single player game, your creations and other players’ creations are automatically shared between your galaxy…

Spore

Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released September 5, 2008 in Europe, Japan, South America and New Zealand, and was released on September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia Pacific territories. The game can also be directly downloaded from Electronic Arts.

Features

Spore allows players to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through deve…

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Spore

Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released September 5, 2008 in Europe, Japan, South America and New Zealand, and was released on September 7, 2008 in North America and Asia Pacific territories. The game can also be directly downloaded from Electronic Arts.

Features

Spore allows players to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a space faring culture. The game is broken up into consistent and dependent ‘phases’, where the end of one ‘phase’ affects the initial condition of the next phase for the player. Every phase has its own style of play and becomes increasingly complicated as players progress through the game. Players are allowed to accelerate or skip phases altogether. Some phases feature optional missions; when the player completes a mission, they are granted a bonus, such as a new ability. Also, players can ‘respawn’ their species at home base in the case that all the player’s creations are destroyed. Spore is known as a ‘massively single-player online game’ as the creations developed by players will be entered automatically into a central database and catalogued and rated for quality and then re-distributed to populate other players’ games. Furthermore, players can visit other players’ planets upon reaching the space phase. Here, players can interact with other players’ species, tribes and civilizations. Additionally, via a ‘MySpore’ page, players can receive statistics on how their creatures are faring in other players’ games. Personalities of the species created by the user are dependent on how the user has played them. The game platform is Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and iPod. It has a single player mode and falls under the genre of god game, life simulation and real-time strategy.

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Pros & Cons

  • amazing visuals, addictive gameplay, awesome audio, loads of content, just plain fun
  • repetitive gameplay, poor storytelling, not enough content, ugly visuals, braindead computer ai
  1. Reviewer: gamesdog.co.uk
    30 April 2009
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    8 September 2008 - So you’re the creator of The Sims. Your games are selling by the truck load, but still you can’t help shaking that feeling that you wanted to do more. You didn’t want to just allow gamers to shape a human avatar. You wanted to give them true god like status. And so Spore came to fruition. Aiming to take in the life of your created species, from tiny single celled organism, through to space hopping behemoths, ambition is certainly the word to... Read more

  2. Spore

    Reviewer: CVG
    29 April 2009

    And it is a universe as well - there are thousands upon thousands of planets that'll be exclusive to your game. Some will need terraforming, some will be like Earth, some will be fundamentally bizarre, but all will be swirling in your own outrageously beautiful galaxy. Potential game of the decade. Read more

  3. Spore review (PC)

    Reviewer: review.gamezine.uk
    29 April 2009
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    Spore, as you may already know, is almost indefinable as a game, although one could make a stab at pinning the real-time strategy tag on it. Read more

  4. 19 April 2009

    Five second reviews. Written, folded and photographed by hand for your pleasure. What's a haikvu? My haikvu's bring you bite sized hand sculpted game reviews. They combine the Japanese art of origami with haiku poetry. Read more

  5. Spore (PC, Mac) review

    Reviewer: DarkZero
    01 April 2009
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    But then, I quite liked Too Human . So what do I know? Read more

  1. Spore (PC): A big game, A big disapointment

    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    3 weeks ago
    Overall 4
    4.0
     

    I had never been so excited about a game before. I had heard about this game years and years before it was released, seeing the original demo, it made me thing that this would be a deep, realistic game about the evolution of life, and the way we will develop in the future. I grew more and more excited as the game grew closer to being released, and while the graphics had changed dramaticly to a more cartoony vibe, i was still excited. After pre orderering the game, i got... Read more

  2. Spore possibly the best game ever

    Reviewer: Ciao
    18 May 2009
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    EA games spore is a mainly role playing game however, the third and fourth stages, (tribe and civilisation) are real time strategy. In the story mode of spore you start off as a single cell in the primeval oceans of your chosen planet you begin by eating other cells and plants to gain DNA points which you used to evolve your creature. As you begin your voyage some creatures will have body parts unavailable to you, usually when you kill one of these creatures they will... Read more

  3. Spore review (PC)

    Reviewer: 3quilibrium, Boomtown
    09 December 2008

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