Spore
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Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre(s): Simulation, Strategy Home Page: http://www.spore.com
Brave Attempt Tribal tactics - "set all your men to bash the main hut for the win". Spore takes the simplicity too far. Ultimately Spore is a very hard title to judge. On the one hand, it pulls you in quickly by introducing concepts gradually and being very friendly. Yet when you start expecting a bit more from the game as you hit the tribal stage, it keeps dumbing down everything as if the game was developed squarely for kids. While the space stage finally does show some promise with many additional gameplay elements and fun concepts, it ultimately fails to provide compelling gameplay that would keep you interested for more than a few games. Balance issues, poor design choices and lack of that final "something" to keep you hooked all hamper the game. Still, Spore manages to try something new in the world of endless sequels and copycats, and that's commendable. Also, it definitely does manage to entertain long enough to justify the price of the box. To achieve a status of a truly good game, it would take a major patch to polish up the space game, and even then the other four stages would be quickly forgotten as the extended five-hour creature/spaceship creator for the space stage. Thankfully once you have completed all earlier stages, you can start the game from any stage. If only someone would pull all the great engine technology of Spore and make a proper galaxy-spanning 4X game... Maxis is bent on the casual market, and that unfortunately shows. Simple is good, especially when introducing new concepts and gameplay elements, but there is a point where oversimplification sets in. In the case of Spore, it never evolves out of that simplicity. It looks good, and drags you in beautifully by introducing concepts in stages, yet it lacks that deep underlying gameplay that separates a good game from the chaff. Somewhere along the way, when the need to get the game to the store shelves took over, "the casual gamer" dictated that everything must be simple, and that's the undoing of Spore. Great concept and idea, very good execution (if you are willing to overlook the crashes), yet too shallow and too easy as a game. Still, a nice toy for the kids.
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