Spore

Primarily, Spore is (in my opinion) a big leap forward forwards for Maxis. It combines a completely open-ended game experience, with internet publications (so you never know what to expect to find!)

Spore could be looked at as just five seperate games. Seriously! You start off with a cell, but as you progress through the game, you can personalise your creature…

These are an example of two of my many creations.

But your creature could just as easily turn out like this!

My point is that everyone who plays this game will end up with different creatures…

The Cell stage is where you start off your epic quest. You get to choose what your cell will eat, you could have a Carnivorous cell (meat eating) or a herbivorous cell (plant eating). You can from then on edit your cell with extras such as: poisin sacs for defense, flagella or cillia for speed. If you want to change the type of food your cell eats, that is possible too. At the end of the cell stage, you edit your cell for life on land with body parts like legs!

The Creature stage is where you can further advance your cell, here, the options really explode… As you go through the creature stage, you unlock more and more body parts, allowing you to add whatever parts you like. Creatures can be categorised in three types: Personality Creatures(made for looks), animal influenced creatures(made to look like a real animal) and Skill creatures (made to just be good at abilities).

The Tribal and Civilsation stages are where the game becomes more strategy… In the tribal stage, you control a tribe, and attempt to destroy or befriend your five rival tribes. In the civilisation stage, you create and control cities and vehicles as you strive for your one goal: Control of your entire planet. You can do this by three mehods: Economic (attempting to buy out your rivals cities), Religious (you convert each city to your beleif system) and Military (you blow up cities into submission!)

Its in the Space stage where your options really go bonkers!, after creating your spaceship at the end of the Civilistation stage, you go into space. Limitless options! But most can be categorised as: Warrior (fighting), Trader (buying and selling) and Shaman (changing the universe)

Thank you for reading!!

here are some links to other peoples spore stuff:

• Spore
• Spore: The key to the galaxy
• Will Wrights Spore
• Spore Galore