Location: Denmark
Age: 15
Time played: 25 Hours or more
Preferred Creature Type: Herbivore

My Review:
Remember that Spore is a game that you can’t complete, but you can have a lot of funny moments in.

There is a lot of people that does that mistake that they just want to complete each stage and I did that too, but what the game is about is having a lot of fun moments exploring the possibilities in the universe of Spore.
I for example have had a lot of fun moments in Creature phase from the first time I was playing it.

First time I started a game I choose Cell – Herbivore – Hard

I died a lot of times in Cell and I just wanted to complete it and was challenged a lot of times and I recommend people that want a challenge to try complete this phase as fast as possible without dying ones.

Then I finally got into creature phase and I met a lot of boring Maxis creations (boring because I can’t comment and rate them and talk with the creators) But suddenly I met a corpse of a “Alien” (My own creation that looks like the aliens from AvP) and I tough it was kinder funny that it was that one.
Then right after I got attacked by another creature that I created myself and it was named “Prehistoric Human” and I couldn’t stop laughing because it was funny to think about if the humans had looked like that in the past and meeting them ingame like that was a lot of fun.
I had some bugs in it like when I want to go to the editor or take some of my own men with me I find the nest empty with no creatures and I have to go away from it and back and there they all suddenly are.
Creature phase was challenging in some ways like finding the right combinating for each creature to want to ally you and running from offensive creatures and it became from Easy to very hard when I walked to the next nest and I had to go back and interact with the easier creatures in a little while.

Then I came to Tribal and it was the one I had waited for most because they had told that it was like Populous: A new beginning, but it was really disappointing because of the easy controls and the only challenge was just when I allied another tribe I got attacked by 2 other tribes, but they was killed before they got to take down any of my huts and I didn’t lose one time in tribal.
Tribal phase is really disappointing because there is no challenge and there isn’t a lot of freedom so you can’t do a lot.

Then I came to the Civ phase and I was taken down extremely fast because I didn’t know how to play to win.
But second time I tried I just toke the strategy points (resource points) at the same time so the enemies didn’t start doing anything and I got the advantage.
I also got problems with a lot of useless vehicles that couldn’t attack the enemies because they were on another continent and they just toke a lot of space in my army, but I had still a lot of space for the flying vehicles and such so I could complete it anyways, but what if I didn’t have any space left?
Civ phase is challenging if you want it to be a challenge, but else Civ is just a phase that takes a long and boring time to complete.

Then I finally got to space (or it didn’t take that long)
In Space I just wanted to explore the different planets and have fun, but I couldn’t have fun because there were missions I had to do to gain abilities and such.
Fine I did that and hoped to have some fun after completing a few missions, but no there’s a lot of missions and on Hard settings you get killed all the time and end up losing it all because you can’t defend yourself against a army of Spaceships with only you and a ally or two.
Space has the worst Combat system in the game and I can’t find a way to destroy a squad of enemy spaceships and I hate the single ships that fly around and won’t stay still so my missiles can hit them.
And when having fun on another planet or doing a mission you suddenly get the message that you or your allies are under attack of another species or pirates and sometimes there’s more planets at ones that get attacked and you have to choose which one you want to save most.
Doesn’t that mean that you are limited to how big your space empire can be?

After I played it on hard and getting my ass kicked in Space I wanted to just have some fun with the editors.

And I love the editors with all the freedom that I haven’t seen in any other game, but it have its limits and it can make me want to kill it when I get the message that I can’t but more parts on right before I’m finished with my creation, but then again I love the simple creations the most because they doesn’t take a lot of time and they can be created in so many ways.

I was stupid enough to play the game to get through it and that was wrong!
What the game is about is Funny or challenging moments and not challenging or funny all the time.

Funny moments can happened at random or you can help it happen by doing what you want.

A Challenging moment is like killing an epic in creature phase and it toke me half an hour or so, but I had my fun thanks to my friend that was just to the left of me and we laughed some times by making a few jokes while drinking soda pop.

How to kill an epic:

1. Have an army ready to make it take a few minutes less (your army will die after a few seconds)

2. Have a good shooting weapon and attack the Epic from a distance so you don’t die (see your army die in one hit and you know why you can’t go near it)

3. Move away when it comes near.

4. Repeat 2 and 3 until the Epic dies.

A Fun and challenging moment I had was in creature phase when I met 2 different epic creatures at the same time got the idea to make them attack each other.

I take my army to attack one of them and began shoot at the other and suddenly I had an epic behind my and one right over me and I had to make a run, but suddenly a stupid little creep began to attack me and charged me so I walked slow and I had very little time to run in and I ran into the epic behind me and around it luckily without being hit because it turns around slow.

The epic creatures was face to face and I watched one of them hitting the other and killing it in one hit.
O_O !1000 damage hit!

Primary likes of the game:

Playing around with the editors is a lot of fun and can never be tiring.

Funny moments ingame are what I like most!

Primary dislikes of the game:

Space Fighting is hard because its almost all about the missiles and health your spaceship have.

Space have a lot of stuff you always have to do and that makes it hard to do what you want.

Vehicles and Building editors is hard to find good colourings in.

Rating: 8.5/10

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I have played a lot Space lately and found out a lot of stuff.

Money: Gathering money is too easy!
You just have to gain 2-3 planets with alot of colonies (taking over enemies main planets is a easy way to get them) with the same spice and then find a buyer that will buy it for 10K or more.

Empire: You can’t have a big empire without having problems with attacks and ecodisasters, but pirates only takes the ressources so why care?
and ecodisasters makes you have to put new creatures and plants on the planet so why care when you have 100s of planets anyway?
Just get a few planets near you that works and you have 99 spice of the spices you want!
If enemies attack then you just destroy them before they take over all your planets.
If too many enemies attack in too many places then you have build your empire wrong.
Just start from one “tail” of the galaxy and take over slowly all the tails and the middle.

Exploring: Again you can ignore the disasters and pirates, but if you ignore them and just seek for all the discoveries there is then you will find them too fast and you will possibly get disappointed of how few suprises there is.

Adventures: Create your own adventures and stories with screenshots and videoes of the game and tell a story and have fun with everyone!

Terraforming: Its easy to find out and easy to use and I think its good because else 10 years olds can’t play it probaly.
Its fun to create custom planets, but its sad that you can only share it with videoes and screenshots.

Meet other people: When seeing others creations then try rate them as often as possible to make the game more lively!
Else everyone would just play and you will not get ratings and comments without asking on the forums and such.

Commenting: Never EVER ask them to check your creations or your page!
And don’t write “I like it” all the time because people really want to know why you like it.
Its ok to write “I like it, because of the unique head and it really fits the body and the animation works great! I love your creations! keep it up”.
If you write “please comment on my creatures too!” after your comments and write to other peoples comments then it will make the comment system look like a chat and people never response to comments that talks to other comments because people don’t check back on creatures they have commented on.

Rating: How do you rate creations?
I rate them after if they animate well and if they don’t then its bad and should be bad commented.
If they got too many details then its bad too.
If its a clone of my own then its really bad and should be flagged!
When a lot of people comment they just look at the picture and doesn’t think about how ugly they look when moving and that’s sad because meeting stuff like that in the game makes me trow up.
Creations like Vehicles got beautiful pictures, but in my game the colouring looks terrible when looking at them in profile and I don’t know why, but I don’t know if I shall rate them after the picture or the profile of them.

The Sims: Remember The Sims? yeah sure you do!
When looking back at WWs creation The Sims you will get the same feeling as Spore because in The Sims you always have to make them happy, gain money, get the children to school and let them sleep and you have never time for what you want just like in Spore where you are terraforming a planet and suddenly a message say that someone is under attack or something like that.
The Sims have the cheats to make it funnier, but you still had to make them happy unless you had a trainer.

Spore is a disappointment, but maybe they can save it with patches and expansions
else they still got a lot of people that didn’t wait 2 years for the game xD

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The Editors

Creation stuff in all the diffirent creatures is great! and can never become boring.

And thanks to the asymmetrical hack you can make even more creations.

One of the most disappointing things of the editors is that when the Vehicles get ingame they are too small to see all the details that you see in the editors.

I love to play Spore just to fill my sporepedia in a game with a lot of unique creations!

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The Bugs

There is a lot of bugs and problems with the game and its one of the most disappointing things in it.

But again they can be funny and entertaining like here for example!

Living in the water and get eaten by the Sea Monster when trying to go to land, that’s a funny little prison to play around in.

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