After that, the game proceeds in five distinct Evolutionary Levels: The game begins by naming your homeworld, picking a difficulty, and deciding whether your cell will be herbivorous or carnivorous (though this can change through gameplay). For example, while about 1,700 entities are bundled with the core game disc, Sporepedia hosts over 190 million. The idea was first conceived by Will Wright not long after The Sims was finished he had made a game about people, so he wanted to make a game about 'everything else' next - and the game's development schedule took eight years to finish.Īlmost all content seen in Spore is developed by its userbase, thanks to the game's ability to automatically upload creations (from cells and creatures to vehicles and spacecraft) to the main Spore website ('Sporepedia'), and subsequently download those creations to other games. All too often, one that has unfortunately evolved in the shape of a giant penis with legs. Worth the money, I thought.The Spore franchise is, at its broadest, an 'evolutionary simulator' in which you guide the development of a species from its humble beginnings as a single-celled organism in a tidepool to its ultimate destiny as a spacefaring empire capable of conquering (or destroying) other planets. But it's a fun game, and more intelligent than most video games out there.

I wouldn't use this as more than a place to start a discussion about evolution, and how it's different than this. I did see the science being taught in this, though it did lean more towards 'intelligent design' than actual evolution. He would have expected a bit more in between. Then suddenly it skips ahead from tribes to battle tanks - a drastic jump in his mind. He says that it's kind of strange - the game goes from cell life to organism, from organism to animal, from animal to tribes. My 9 year old persevered, and got through to the end. The game lost me at the 3rd stage, where the controls got changed, and the tutorial was poor.

Overall it's a fun game to play, and we both enjoyed the first two stages. As another reviewer said, this game really is 4 mini-games, and it's supposed to show the evolution of a creature from cellular stage in the ocean to a space faring race. My 9 year old plays this game - and I played a little bit too.

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