10 Reasons to Avoid Spore

Evolution Ends

Now that your creature is driving around in a shiny tank or cruising in a space ship, it doesn't really need those razor sharp claws popping out of its head anymore. If you're dissatisfied with how your creature turned out, then too bad, there's no way to edit your creation's physical traits once the Creature Phase ends. From Tribal Phase and onward, Spore becomes more about dressing creatures in fancy clothes, tricking out rides and messing with the climates of distant worlds than adapting to changing conditions. Since conditions never actually change in the game, except for the indigenous creatures, it's apparent that only 2/5 of this game have anything to do with evolution. Space faring societies don't even discover genetic manipulation to remove unsightly dance ears from the gene pool.

12/09/08