Spore: Is it just the hype? A casual gamer's review. Spoilers Alert.
Spore has 5 different stages, stages that we can say different to each other. Or is it?
- First stage is all about you being a single tiny cell fighting your way up to the "Cell Hierarchy". You need to eat and eventually kill other cells to survive. You can add or remove additional parts from your cell to increase the chance of it surviving in this place. And you can also mate with other cells(similar to your cell) to spawn more cell.
- Second stage is different. You are now evolved into a new formed. You gained the ability to fly/glide(required wings), walk/run(required legs/feet), and much more. This time, you are going to meet many different creatures, they're either friendly or hostile to you. Its all up to you if you want to be friend with them or wipe their race of creature from this planet. Like in the first stage you can mate to spawn more of your creatures. On this stage you are given a full choice of customizing the looks of your creature. From the cosmetic looks to some other stuff, it's all up to you. This is important since you can't modify the looks of your creature on the next stage(I might be wrong).
- Third stage is an interesting one. The camera change into an RTS like footage. You are now on tribal stage. It is kind of the same as the Second Stage since you will meet more tribal's as you go to your adventure. It is completely up to you if you want to make them as your ally or wipe them out from the face of the planet. You also gained the ability to erect different buildings. The buildings are added when you be friended or wipe other tribal's. You can assign your followers to do a certain task for your village. For example you can assign 2 followers as fisherman and 2 followers as an Axeman.
- Fourth stage is nothing new. Ever played civilization? Yeah it's like that. You are given a city and your goal is to conquer all the cities on this planet by either destroying them by military means, converting their city to your belief, or use your money to buy their city. It is completely up to you. The developers added some humor in to this stage but I am not gonna spoil that. You are given a chance of designing your own buildings and vehicles. The design is completely up to you but you can choose one of the premade vehicles or buildings made by Maxis. This is help full if you get bored easily like me.
- Fifth and final stage(For now) is the space stage. Your creatures are now able to explore the far reach of the universe. You are given a task of colonizing other planets and looking for other aliens. You are now the captain of a space ship made by your creatures. This spaceship is equipped with state of the art gadgets made possible by your creatures. You will encounter many alien races while you undergo your task of expanding your colony. You can either be friend with them or wipe them. You can also get quests from them too.
Explore! Explore! Explore... Wait, is that Earth?.
That's basically Spore in a nutshell. Also before I forgot, you are given a brief history/summary of the stage each time you finished them. The game will ranked you depends on what you did on that stage.
Unless EA is going to release more contents in the near future, this game is just another game in the market. Sure it's fun making those creatures(It's relaxing), but EA need to add more content into the game.
This is just my review and opinion. I might be wrong but this is how I view the game. In the mean time, back to my spaceship.