Spore Creatures Review

Pros

• Spore Creatures has a lovely, comic book-like aesthetic that plays with 2D and 3D.
• Adding wacky body parts to your creature is fun -- for a time.
• The DS’s WiFi connection lets you show off particularly crazy creatures.

Cons

• Boiling down a huge, open game like Spore into a tiny adventure just doesn’t work.
• Storyline feels random and tacked on.
• The fighting mechanic (i.e. scribbling on the screen with your stylus) is boringly simple.

Description

• Explore your plant-filled environments to undercover new body parts.
• Add body parts to your creature to become faster and stronger.
• Make friends with your fellow creatures by singing, or fight them instead.
• Ended up with a particularly cool creature? Show it off via WiFi.

Guide Review - Spore Creatures Review

As a creature simultaneously evolving and trying to save the world, your goal is to acquire body parts – which the player can stick on his creature wherever he likes. These allow you to evolve in a way that somewhat parallels the PC Spore, the giant game release that has been accompanied by many smaller, related games like Spore Creatures. Unfortunately, this whole body part discovery game – which also involves befriending or starting fights with other creatures – feels pretty thin as an attempt to boil Spore down into a linear adventure. Aside from the game’s cool art style, not much here captures Will Wright’s original sense of the vast effects of evolution. It doesn’t even capture his sense of fun.