Spore, anyone?

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Bump, eh? Okay then. I played it for a short while, but alas I quickly lost interest in it. The creature editor is an amazing piece of technology, but I found the actual game quite lacking.

Maybe it gets better when you get to the final space gameplay stage but I never made it that far, because the stages before that felt so shallow and rushed to me. I was always doing the same few actions and there was no real depth to anything. I think if they had reduced the game to, say, only two or three stages and focussed on fleshing those out with deeper and more varied gameplay it would have been much better.

To be fair though, I also went into the game with all the wrong expectations. I thought it would have a much heavier focus on RPG elements, with the creature itself being the core of the game. Sort of like a quest to create the perfectly adapted lifeform... except it wasn't really that deep in the end. (At least the creature stage wasn't.)

But like I said, the creature editor is still really fun. I still sometimes start the game just to play around with the editor for a bit. Come to think of it, I'd love to see a similar system integrated into a game with a more serious setting... think for example Alien vs. Predator in terms of style and aesthetics....mhmmm