Mood: raving~!
The Sims is part of my library of staple offline games that can keep you busy for a whole day. It’s just one of those games I can’t get enough of. I love to make stories up in my head and I can think of a million characters to fit a single avatar and that is how this game sucked the life out of me. But I’m not going to talk about The Sims. They have another game, technically the same but not quite.
When I first heard of SPORE, and heard of its nature I shrugged it off thinking that it wasn’t my thing. I loved Pokemon and played it on the PC and gameboy advance like a dazed zombie but I got over the monster/creature game eventually. I’d pretty much rather play Black and White than play another creature game. I like the idea of customizing people and controlling emotions better than raising some monster to hunt for food and create a nest.
So I ignored SPORE and set it aside, making it feel that I just simply didn’t care. A lot of opportunities and recommendations for the game reached me but I ignored the calling and rolled my eyes at it.
If the game had feelings, damn I would be so screwed right now because it turns out that the game is FUCKIN AWESOME.
The game is so customizable, it’s scary. So you start as a bacteria, you eat things until you get enough uhh DNA to evolve into something with legs. Basically it follows the evolution of a species and with SPORE you are not defined by anything. You can be anything. A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
As you go along, you would eventually have the power (and the brain) to create a community. So… YAY more customization! Everything in SPORE is virtually customizable except maybe the terrain. Your creature can be anything. ANYTHING. You upgrade your creature as you evolve and get more DNA. It’s fascinating, really. The thing about customize-me games is that sometimes editing everything becomes too tiresome. In SPORE, it actually doesn’t. I have no idea how they did it but everything always seem fresh and because of the UI, I don’t feel tired and constricted when editing my creature.
So yeah I have found a new addiction. I’m so glad I gave this game a chance. SPORE, forget what I said about creature games being stupid and boring, you and I will become bestest best friends, okay?
touch it?
