Ah... if you haven't read any of the articles that have come out since last week at all, this is a must read. Destructoid has one of the most in-depth
Spore reviews we've read to date. Wait, that means that even if you -have- read them all, this one is still worth reading. :) A blurb:
You'll start your race's millions of years of existence as we all did, as a small, vaguely useless blob floating in the ocean, just begging to have its whole potential future history wiped out at the whim of the food chain. Your blob will be pretty ill-equipped at the start, having little more than a fairly useless mouth and a tail. It will be too small to attack anything, will barely be able to get away fast enough to defend itself, and will have to eat nothing more challenging than floating sea plants while avoiding the hell out of everything else.