Full Game Reviews
Rating of
3.5/5
The Best Part of Spore
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/18/2012
In 2008, Electronic Arts published “Spore,” a game designed by Will Wright, creator of “The Sims.” “Spore” is a 5-part game in which players guide the evolution of a creature from the cellular stage all the way to pan-galactic civilization. While I found the first two stages of “Spore” to be interesting, the fact that the last three stages – over half the game – are RTS knock-offs, combined with the fact that the game is hampered by terrible DRM prevented me from ever buying it or playing it in its entirety. But I have enjoyed a number of evolution-based games, from “EVO: The Search for Eden” on the SNES to “Seventh Cross” on the Dreamcast; so when I learned that EA was spinning-off the creature evolution stage of “Spore” (stage two) into “Spore Hero” …
