For the holidays one of those games that is a must, is Spore, a game made by Sim City creator Will Wright, but Spore is not another Sim City although it can be classified as a successor of the game because the dynamics are similar to Sim City at the moment of administrating the civilization to achieve its full potential, but at the same time is similar to The Sims because the player needs to help the creatures similar as The Sims to overcome with their problems and the dangers of the evolutionary paths.
The gameplay of Spore is really excellent, and it has a great replay value as every game produced by Maxis, you won’t get bored easily playing Spore as the reason you will want to explore every evolutionary paths of the creatures as the emerge from a singular unicellular being up to a society that colonize space and new planets.
As it was expressed previously, Spore is a game based on the theory of evolution but it has some wacky twists that let the player to have fun while enjoying a game based on scientific data; the game has six stages of evolution, the last one been space is mostly a referred as sandbox because the player will gain an almost complete control over time and matter, and he can choose to start a new civilization in the planet he choose.
The stages of the game are Panspermia when a meteor crash on the planet and then the creature starts microorganism in the big sea, the stage that follows Panspermia is the Cellular Stage when the player organism evolve into microbes trough a 3D mixed with 2D sea environment filled with monstrous creatures, every certain points of the sea the microbe you control will grow larger and larger until it become a complex creature, now we said creature we go to the next in evolution, the Creature Stage which is similar to the Cellular Stage the exceptions are that you will find creatures created by other players which are downloaded to maintain a balance in the ecosystem but your character will have a status menu which led him to adapt to the new environment, the next stage in the chain of evolution is the Tribal Stage which it can be achieved by the evolution of the game, during the Tribal Stage the player won’t have a complete control over the character since it will gain autonomy, with this stage the player will get more characters and a hut, since the game idea is to provide a genetic variety to the species and civilization.
The Civilization Stage, is the stage that follows the Tribal, when this stage is achieved the player tribe will transform into a city, and then it has to gain control of the entire planet via military, economic or religious ways, this traits will appear according the characteristics obtained during the game play. The last stage of the game is the Space which can be said to inspired Star Wars, since you will have the role of defender of your planet as your allies’ planets, so colonizing new ones to expand your own empire. If you want to buy the game, you can click here to go to amazon.com.