Spores funny in that its five games in one. Five underdeveloped games that make an overall fun but disappointing experience.
Its sad but each stage failed on several levels, some worse than others.
Cell phase: Probably the most simple, but also the most fun. The combat is dynamic and there is actually an ecosystem. But very short, and lacking in the number of parts.
Creature phase: Probably the most disappointed here. The editor is awesome. But the game play sucks. Unlike the cell phase, there is no ecosystem. Shore there predators and herbivores, but they just stick around there nest, waiting for you to come dick with them. Not to mention every nest you go to is some random ass species. It should have generated a simple food web with like 15 creatures. When I finally went to the space stage. The aliens didn├óÔé¼Ôäót seem alien at all. There the same random ass critters I├óÔé¼Ôäóve been meeting the whole game.
There was a test program for the creature phase that hit it spot on. I have no idea why they changed it.
Tribal phase: Isn├óÔé¼Ôäót really bad, just not much to it, feels like something you got to dredge thru to get to the next phase. Yet again could have been awesome with more content and depth.
Civ phase: I Was extremely excited when I got to build my own tank and buildings. It seemed to have a lot more control because of the simple shapes. But I was horribly pissed when I found out the guns you put on don├óÔé¼Ôäót do anything. The damn thing summons 1 fucking bullet out of no ware relative to its guns and lobs the shit. Plus you can only build one land, sea and air combat unit. Did they even try to make a good rts.
Space Phase: Defiantly has more depth than the other phases, and is pretty much the only one with unique game play. Although Controlling a fleet via a simple Space Empires kind of game along with the escape velocity single avatar game would have been a lot better.
All of the above mentioned lack of depth and complexity is simply because they wanted to hit a wide demographic. But sadly, you can please some of the people some of the time. But you can├óÔé¼Ôäót please all of the people all of the time.
I just wish it had been made more for the people that like games, like me. Instead of my mom.
