Death means nothing, failure at this point does not doom you or your creature to certain extinction.
It's been said before, and it is a view that has also been receiving some criticism from other writers, but I don't feel like the early stages are complicated enough to get my full attention.įor example, the cell stage where the game begins is more or less a bore, where you just swim around and either eat or are eaten. They are preludes in many ways - not only do they give you ample time to define what your creature should look like, what kind of habitats it should build and if it should wage war through arms, economy or religion, but they all feel like they miss something that the space stage doesn't. The game does follow five evolutionary steps, four of them preludes to the point where your creation leaves the confines of its home planet and reach for the stars. Nature has nothing to do with it, it's all up to you. Spore, on the other hand, lets you play a benevolent creator that can change the way his favored creations act and how they get to the top of the food chain at whim. Evolution, to me, is when nature dictates the way a creature evolves. It's weird, seeing as evolution is one of the things that was supposed to be really interesting with Spore, but I find myself pointing that out every time someone asks me about the game.