It's all too possible to use the Monolith to create new civilizations only to kill them all off later.

Another spinoff, Darkspore, was released in April 2011, combining an updated Creature Creator with an action-RPG.

The game has had a few spinoff games: Spore Creatures for the Nintendo DS, which uses a 2D creature designer rather than 3D, Spore Origins for mobile phones, which is basically a port of the Cell stage, and Spore Hero, for the Nintendo Wii and (as Spore Hero Arena) DS, which is more of an adventure game than the original, and focuses more on story and the evolution aspects. After that, it's Wide-Open Sandbox time, culminating in an encounter with the galaxy's most powerful and evil race - or becoming it. It starts off with the colonization of a new system.

The Space stage is by far the largest, longest and most complex of them all.

In the Civilization stage, economic, military, and religious nations take over others by respectively buying them out, storming their cities and playing music at their enemies while a giant hologram preaches at them.

You have discovered fire, and must eradicate or ally with the other tribes that spring up, by use of weapons or music respectively.

In the Tribal stage, you now control an entire tribe of your creature, rather than just one.

In the Creature stage, you collect new parts from skeletons, eat food, and either kill or befriend other creatures, using abilities that are defined by which body parts you use.

The Cell stage is the simplest of the five you swim around the tidepool in two dimensions eating fragments of vegetation or meat depending on your cell's diet, avoiding larger cells, and collecting new parts for your cell.

After that, the game proceeds in five distinct Evolutionary Levels:

The game begins by naming your homeworld, picking a difficulty, and deciding whether your cell will be herbivorous or carnivorous (though this can change through gameplay). For example, while about 1,700 entities are bundled with the core game disc, Sporepedia hosts over 190 million. The idea was first conceived by Will Wright not long after The Sims was finished he had made a game about people, so he wanted to make a game about 'everything else' next - and the game's development schedule took eight years to finish.Īlmost all content seen in Spore is developed by its userbase, thanks to the game's ability to automatically upload creations (from cells and creatures to vehicles and spacecraft) to the main Spore website ('Sporepedia'), and subsequently download those creations to other games.

All too often, one that has unfortunately evolved in the shape of a giant penis with legs. The Spore franchise is, at its broadest, an 'evolutionary simulator' in which you guide the development of a species from its humble beginnings as a single-celled organism in a tidepool to its ultimate destiny as a spacefaring empire capable of conquering (or destroying) other planets.

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