Customer Reviews
All the grind of a MMORPG without the social reward or variety. - By: Mr. Richard Bullen, 21 Nov 2008 
This was one of the most hyped games for about the past 3 years. Great things were made of the procedurally generated graphics & creature customisation. If what you want are toys that let you build the freaky alien of your choice I can recommend no better solution.
Unfortunately, I was expecting a *game* & what game there isin this product is seriously flawed. Overall the game is mind-numbingly repetetive. The cell stage is well executed & fun. You rapidly form an attachment to your blob of goo & rejoice as he eats things & grows strong. Exactly where his spikes are is something you get excited about as this can make all the difference to fending off other blobs or being lunch.
Unfortunately, the game doesn't get much more complicated. The creature stage is a dumbed down 3rd person action-adventure affair with your attributes determined by the parts on your creature. The interest is damaged as you are forced to change parts for better ones regardless of the aesthetics. There is little variation - you either kill or befriend other species until you suddely go tribal.
The tribal stage & civilisation stages are like dumbed down RTS games with few units (one land, one sea, one air)in the civilisation stage & little thought required. You can trade people to death (buy them), preach at them until they convert to your religion or attack them until you win. The latter two options are near identical.
Once you have your planet under control you reach the space stage. This is a little more interesting but not much. Your ship appears to contain the only brainin the galaxy. You can set up trade routes but they function only as a trojan horse to let you buy the other party's planet eventually. To actually get money you have to cart stuff round yourself or do missions. The missions are basic (fetch 3 of these, kill 5 of those) & ultimately dull. You get attacked on a semi-regular basis & have to hurtle back home to defend your planet (annoying). The diplomacy is feeble.
Apparently the 'story' element involving the Grox (baddies) is worth following & getting to the end is a big surprise & rewards the effort. I no longer care.
The final kickin the teeth comes now when they release details of the expansions which contain features that were announced for the main game months before release but apparently cut so they could sell the expansions. Imagine how impressed I am by this.
Oh, & the DRM policy sucks, but if this were actually a good game I would ignore it as a downside. As it is there is very little chance I will want to reinstall it ever anyway.
SPORE SPORE SPORE! - By: book worm, 20 Nov 2008 
This game is like freaking AMAZING!
i'm having so much fun.
firstly you start at Cell stage...and i was actually scaried...but the graphis are so brilliant! & then once you produce a brain you can then go onto Creature stage....so amazing...its really a good way of understanding evolution..its so cool! Anyway...depending on what you done at each stage decides what sort of creature you are on the other stages...once you;ve completed creature stage by either making friends enemies, ruling the world..you then go to tribal stage where you live & rule all the tribes...once you;ve done that you go onto civilisation stage where other civilations of your creature become your enemies or friends & once you have ruled the world by converting, battling etc you go to SPACE STAGE. which is AMAZING GOOD. graphics again are great & your within the galaxy...yay!
you basically makes friends or you attack star system whilst trying to help your allies star system & build your economy by selling spice, completing missons & so forth...i've actually gone to the centre of the galaxy...and i beleive the object is to get as farin the galaxy as possibly...whilst battling & making friends....
IT REALLY GOOD FUN!
I've feel like i've achieved so much with my creatures...(who i named after my sister. hehe)and you can be really creative & make any creature you want...making them look cute, or tough...and there is SO much to explore.
so buy it & try it :D
Balls - By: M. Cree Esq, 19 Nov 2008 DRM or not, this game is boring. Boring at the start, moving on slightly to annoying. Well, at least there's a bit of variation!
It has all been said before - annoying DRM, gameplay too basic. Honestly, this game should've been marketed as a kid's game. As it was not, we'll assume EA/Will Wright prefer to insult their customers' intelligence.
Waste of money - By: Burvs, 18 Nov 2008 I was really disappointed with this game. The game-play is very repetitive & whilst the creature creation mechanics are fun for a while, you quickly realise that the design of your creature has little impact on your species' success or failure.
It's nothing like the innovative game I thought it would be.
Worst of all, having played it through & decided I won't be playing it again, I can't sell it second hand because of EA's restrictive DRM. So allin all a complete & utter waste of money which has left me vowing never to buy another game with DRM.
SPORE - Please give me more! - By: H. L. Belcher, 14 Nov 2008 
One of the most hyped up games of the year has now been released, & I have finally resurfaced to tell you about it. Made by the creator of the SIMS, SPORE was never going to be a disappointment. There are some pretty obvious similarities, like the graphics, SPORE has the same simple futuristic 3D animations & idiot proof options tabs, & just like the SIMS I did feel a bit like God on a power trip. But this is where the similarities end, SIMS fans be warned. You are nowin control of evolution. Life for you starts out as a single Sporein a tide pool; you must fight your way through life, evolving & reproducing until you can walk on land & create a future for your speciesin space. Travel through six evolutionary phases by making friends & killing your enemies, whilst all the time moulding your creatures for their survival. As exciting as this sounds, at times the game does become a little tedious & almost too easy; this may have been because I played it on `easy', but still, it is a shadow of what it could have been. Despite these flaws I did admittedly become quite addicted, & found letting my peculiar & ugly featured aliens go, extremely hard. Overall I would say it is definitely worth a bit of your gaming time, but do not expect the epic adventure we were all led to believe SPORE would be.
