Spore Game Review

Game type: evolution simulator

Age rating: E10+

Genre: Alternative history

Developer: Maxis

Spore gives birth to truth…
What was earlier: a hen or an egg? You can have three tips – the traditional audience’s help, fifty-fifty plan or make a call to your friend. But the forth one will only help you: Spore is the first evolution simulator in the world.

Spore game had a real success and when it first appeared it was literally snapped up. Nevertheless we got not exactly what we had wanted.

The main thing to remember is that Spore is a wonderful complex made of old elements. The game is really very diverse. “Cage” stage is a primitive arcade that reminds of the mobile phone games but it is one of the best arcades in the history of this genre! “Being” is a party adventure with the use of special skills and fashionable clothes of the old times.

“Tribe” is a pattern strategy in a real time. “Space” is a God and planets enslaver simulator. Every stage is a simple and complicated at the same time. Minimal buttons quantity and really complicated balanced system – this is really greatness!

But the main Spore game advantage is not only the game process but a complex of redactors. The best of them is “the beings’ laboratory”. In the beginning of the 21st century wonderful Impossible Creatures strategy was developed where the gamer got the DNA of various animals and made the army of beelions or rabbitodiles. The situation in that game is very like. Everything depends on imagination.

Well, we have perfectly constructed revolution game with a great number of original finds. But why doesn’t it get the highest mark? The main problem is that it hasn’t got motivation. It is rather monotonous. Many consider that it’s also too amorphous and theatrics.

To sum up there haven’t ever been revolution games of the same level. But Spore is not a gamer product. It is the ideal tool for the creators, for those who want to make their own live and colorful world.