Spore

[Lotinja]

ya my buddy said it would be impossible to do something non-cute as its a maxis game! But i hope i did fairly well!

[Myogoblin]

LOL!

What a piece of badly-designed casual shit this game is... Unbelieveable.

Played it the whole evening up into 30 mins of the 5th, final phase.

Phase 1: OK, this is a simple flOw clone. At least it has nice graphics and funny cute sounds. Nice introduction phase.

Phase 2: Creature designer is awesome. Phase 2 gameplay is okay-ish but boring due to constant repetition.

Phase 3: Worst pile of dung I have played in a long long time. Imagine 3 students coding their own Age of Empires clone. Just way way worse. Everything about this phase is shit. The controls, the design, the balancing, the user interface. Fighting other tribes is mostly luck/randomness due to lack of minimanagement control. Befriending them however took 8 seconds, just wait till the "I like you"-bar is complete. Optionally, do the awesome press-the-correct-instrument-button to speed up the process even more.

Phase 4: Conquering opponent cities. This whole phase took me maybe 15 minutes to complete, it's that trivial. There's no enemy AI. Just build vehicles, send them to siege the cities, wait. Rinse and repeat.

Phase 5: Finally some missions are introduced. Flying around in my Goza spaceship. Kinda funny. Shit interface. To fill in missions, they really expect me to manually fly back to the star system & planet where I initially took it? Yeah great...

All the designers in the game are great: The creature designer, the vehicle designer, the building designer. They are intuitive to use, give huge options, results are great. The guy who coded those deserves a double promotion.
Too bad almost everything about them is eye-candy. OK, so I can design every building and vehicle in phase 4. Too bad that phase is over in 15 minutes. Guess they show up again in phase 5, haven't really paid attention and honestly I don't care much.

Whoever came up with the gameplay however should be shot to the moon. Unbelievable as it is, that's prob Will Wright. What-the-fuck...

very brutal review!

I've been playing it for quite a few hours and the creator creators for things are quite fun. ships/boats/cars/animals etc etc but are quite limited in the amount of parts you can have.

I played it on hard to start and its still not a huge challenge, I havent played to the space stage yet as i've been treating it like B&W which lots of people just played the 4 levels and didnt quite get the point of it.

It is awefully simple and i am not sure if the space age when the game is meant to really start will increase the interest. its been fun for sure but how long that lasts I am not sure as i have two planets on the go at the same time.

I dont think it lives up to the hype at all. the creator technology is very easy to use but the first 4 phases are very short. Making friends was far from easy for my race as they were pure military but blowin the crap out of them wasnt that hard (even on hard).

I totally lack the ability to create awesome designs like some you can see online but its nice having such a vast pool to play in.

Summary:

The game is cute and easy to play and good fun but each phase is dreadfully short. and I mean DREADFULLY. it totally lacks any depth i expected from each phase or freedom to grow. Worth getting to pass some time but lastability I really dont know. I gotta get into space i guess but i cant see how the depth will get better.

I guess to really sum it up it could have been a brilliant game but its been dumbed down SO hard and i think thats why goza hates it because its truely quite offensive at how pathetic the phases are. I'm 100% sure ill finish this miltary race. then try my herbivore race. then leave it on the shelf. Oh and the evolution is dumbed down as well HARD. its completely decided on if you eat meat or eat veggies. thats how simple it is.

[Meeckah]

My Penis house got banned from the network =(

But it did mean I got the "Bad Boy" Achievement! (Get one of your creations banned)

I have no idea why they are rewarding you with an achievement by going against their ToS but hey - nevermind.

On another note - I quite enjoy it.

I guess since many people were expecting it to be a hardcore creature evolution sim, lots have been dissapointed, however if you just look at it as a random piece of fun to eradicate other people's creations off the face of the universe every now and again, it's pretty fun.

And the space game is much bigger than the rest of the game Payu

[Grilldyret]

Took me 10 minutes to make the body-builder.. Pretty poor that one, but I will improve it!

[Meeckah]

haha nice

Also whats your ingame name so I can track you?

Mines obviously Meeckah.

[Grilldyret]

And mines obviously Grilldyret?
Playing the space-phase at the moment, but the GROX EMPIRE keeps crushing my cities! Mean GROX guys!

[Meeckah]

Made this last night



and my second penis hasn't been banned yet

[Daekesh]

Awesome red dwarf ship (starbug?)

[Grilldyret]

I tracked your creations, and I hardly found one that wasn't tits or penis-oriented..

[Meeckah]

Awesome red dwarf ship (starbug?)

Yeah it's starbug =)

@ Grilly - Haha - Just seeing if it's possible to get banned haha.

[Grilldyret]

just add tags to your creatures like "penis" and "fuck", and you'll be banned in no time;)

[Goza]

"EA has unveiled the very first expansion pack for Spore, called the Creepy & Cute Parts Pack.

The game appears on the US EA Store, carrying a date of 18th November and price of USD 20."

Lol, it begins! The game has been out for...uh... one month?
5 new beaks and 3 new eyes are totally worth 20 dollar!

[Otori]

For the extra fun 45 min ingame!

[Kawe / Dave]

Spore, while fine for a creation toy, is a total let down as a game overall. Deffo won't be getting the expansion pack(s) for it.

Fable should be of a higher standard I expect though. I hope, at least. If it's as good as fable 1 I'll be happy, if it's worse I'll be disappointed.