How Will You Create the Universe?

The newest game by EA Games to be released for the PC is Spore. This game takes the imagination of the player to create his or her own universe from single-celled creatures to intergalactic space ships. As your species advances through evolution you decide whether to be a carnivore or herbivore, to befriend your fellow species or destroy them, to buy planets or force them into extinction. The game took three years to develop, and it shows. The graphics are impressive, no matter how weird you may make your creature it always moves in a realistic manner.

There are five different stages to this game: cell, creature, tribal, civilization, and space. Each stage has its unique style of play and different objectives. In the cell stage you eat either plants or other cells to grow and evolve your cell into a more adapt species. As you advance you evolve enough to enter the creature stage. In the creature stage you develop legs and a means to communicate with other species. Your objective is to wipe out other species or befriend them. As you develop and evolve you soon enter the tribal stage. In the tribal stage your objective is to gather food for your tribe and to befriend the other tribes or destroy them. After that comes the civilization stage. You grow technologically enough to build cities and vehicles. Your objective is to destroy or convert all the cities on your planet to your way of thinking. After this comes the space stage. In the space stage your objective is to trade with other planets, and to eventually buy or convert them using religious means. Also in the space stage you can colonize other planets and make them more livable by adding plants and animals into the ecosystem.

Overall Spore is a very good game and I would recomend it to anyone who would enjoy expressing their creative side and ruling their own galaxy.