September 4, 2008
Spore opens a new genre of gaming, garners favorable reviews
Posted Sep. 4, ’08, 4:19 PM PT by David Dahlquist
Category | Games
The reviews are pouring out for Spore, recently released in Australia, and soon-to-be-released on Mac and PC in the States. Not surprisingly, considering the creators behind the game (Maxis), and the insane amount of hype behind it, Spore has received unanimously favorable reviews from the major gaming publications.
IGN Australia gave it 9.2 out of 10, saying that the game will “make you acknowledge just how far we’ve come, and just how far we have to go, and Spore will change the way you think about the universe we live in.”
Eurogamer gave it 9/10, and GameSpy gave it a flattering 4.5/5 review.
We’ve covered the development of Spore before, but as a quick recap, it’s a multi-genre “massively single-player online game” created by the brains behind the crazy-popular Sims series (and all the other Sim games as well). You control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a single-cell organism, all the way through to a space-exploring civilization. Each stage of evolution is represented as a different “phase”, or type of game. Due to the wide-open, non-linear nature of the game, no two games will be the same. Even the music, written by Brian Eno, evolves and changes according to decisions the player makes.
Basically, this is must-play stuff for casual and serious gamers alike. I happen to fall into the third category, “non-gamer”, or more accurately, “retired gamer”. My lack of a graphics card will also force me sit this one out. Maybe StarCraft 2 will reinvigorate my long-dormant gaming passion. Dear God I hope it doesn’t. I’m disorganized enough without games to eat up even more of my time!
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Shame it won't run on my Mac Mini :(
As a longtime SIMs fan and gaming mom, I'm looking forward to playing this with my kids... on our Macs! It's great that we'll be able to share our creations with each other. Of course I'll give them some guidance. No Sporn allowed!