Hi everyone …

Welcome to the amazing world of Spore!

Spore is a life simulation game, released in 2008, created by simulation game genius Will Wright.

Spore, in my opinion, is more than a game. It’s a fantastic combination of a computer game, science toy, creativity tool, and social tool, allowing you to make millions of friends around the world while playing it.

You can access the creations of millions of players online and install them in your game, so that your little universe is filled with billions of different creations from other players!

In spore you can imagine anything and then bring it to life and play with it as you wish forever! yes, the game has no end …

You are the only teacher! it’s your world. You made the creatures, the buildings, the vehicles, the spaceships, you can even design the planets and their atmospheres.

So, let’s take a deeper look:

The game consists of 5 stages:

1-the cell stage:

You start the game as a single-celled microorganism, swimming in a prehistoric ocean. at this stage you should eat cells smaller than you and avoid being eaten by cells larger than you at the same time. You can choose to be a carnivore (eat meat), herbivore (eat vegetables and fruits), or omnivore (eat both).

When you eat cells, you get more DNA points, allowing you to call on your partner (the female creature of your type) to produce the next generation of your cell. this will give you the opportunity to enter the cell editor where you can improve your cell skills, like make it swim faster by adding fins, making it stronger by adding spikes, even making it shoot electric or poison shots when attacked!

After collecting enough DNA, you will have the ability to evolve to the second stage, which is:

2-the creature stage:

Welcome to earth!

Now you can get out of the water and walk on land for the first time!

At this stage you need to socialize, to earn more DNA points. you can befriend other creatures and make alliances, or you can attack and eventually kill them … it’s up to you!

Each time you reach a certain number of DNA points, you have the ability to have members of your type follow you as a pack. they can attack together, socialize together … etc.

After getting enough DNA, your brain will get bigger and more skilled. It’s time to make a tribe of your own race, and for the first time in your history you can now make weapons and other useful things like fishing rods, fire torches, stone axes, spears … and much more!

3-the stage of the tribe:

You are now the leader of an entire tribe of your own race. Congratulations!

But beware! there are other tribes scattered around the planet. some of them may seem friendly, while others are not. You can design your tribe design, the outfits of your tribe members. You can start collecting food by either hunting animals or gathering fruits from trees. food is considered currency in the tribe stage. you can buy tools, add more buildings, gift to other tribes, and of course stay alive through food.

The main objective of the tribe stage is to dominate all the tribes, either peacefully by gifting them and making them loyal allies, or by waging war on them and taking them off the face of the planet!

After uniting all the tribes under your command … your race is now dominating the planet. but they broke up and no longer speak the same language .. they also begin to compete with each other to take control of resources and dominate the planet .. hurry up. The stage of civilization is about to begin!

4-the stage of civilization:

In the civilization stage, you build a complete civilization, and your goal is to dominate the entire planet, uniting all rival civilizations under your role.

You can accomplish this just like you did in the creature and tribes stages … peacefully or aggressively.

At this level you can start building land, air and sea vehicles. And again, all of these things are FULLY designable! you can create any vehicle you want.

You have a very nice vehicle editor that has a lot of parts like tires, bodies, chassis, mounted weapons, cockpits, wings, boats … etc.

If you are going to dominate the planet peacefully, use the social skills of your vehicles to befriend other civilizations and eventually make them loyal allies. or just fight fierce battles with them using your massive firepower from land, air and sea (you even have the ability to build super weapons like the gadget bomb and ICBM)!

Once you finish uniting all the civilizations under your role … it’s time to look at the sky thinking about this mysterious world far away! .. get ready to leave it!

5-the space stage:

AHA! so you did it and made it to the space stage … congratulations!

I consider the space stage to be the beginning of the game, although it is the final stage. This stage begins with a spaceship editor also known as “the UFO editor” where you can build your own spaceship. Isn’t it amazing?

As in all previous stages, you have a useful editor associated with each thing you play with. UFO editor contains lots and lots of parts like: thrusters, mounted weapons, light effects … and after collecting enough credits you can improve it even more. you can buy upgrades like interstellar units (they make you travel longer distances in space), power packs (to increase your spaceship fuel), wormhole (a tool that allows you to travel through black holes as a shortcut across the vast galaxy). ), massive weapons (like the ultimate planet destroyer that has the ability to destroy an entire planet with one shot!), and many other socialization tools.

In the space stage you can search for other alien races that live in your solar system or in other solar systems. some of them may still be in the creature stage or tribal stages. you can float with your spaceship scaring them off, or taking some of them as a good specimen with your abduction beam.

But you can find other forms of intelligent life that roam the space like you. Now this is the difference between the space stage and all the previous stages. Your main objective is to CONQUER THE UNIVERSE, search for arid planets, build colonies on them, gather resources and buy more and more upgrades for yourself.

Make allies or fight interstellar battles from planet to planet. You won’t believe me if I tell you that I’ve been playing the game for 2 years and I can’t finish it !!

The galaxy is sooo vast … there are MILLIONS of planets to visit … each planet has its own creatures, plants and civilizations. but the main objective in this stage is to reach the center of the galaxy, which is protected by a fearsome and mysterious alien race called “Grox”. believe me, it is very difficult to achieve this. But I finally made it!

After reaching the center of the galaxy, you will be awarded incredible rewards, including life staff, allowing you to create life from scratch … you can turn a dead and barren planet into a living one, full of creatures, contains rivers , seas. and oceans, and they have a habitable atmosphere.

And here you are! … you have a vast galaxy filled with millions of stars and a planet, and you have almost all the tools and updates installed on your spaceship … feel free to do whatever you want! you can jump from one planet to another … you can explore the distant and mysterious solar systems … you can explore planets and scan new life forms and kidnap some with you as samples and use them to populate another planet. You can fail with planets climbing mountains and hills, digging rivers and seas, raising or lowering the temperature … even destroy an entire planet with your planet destroying weapon … but be careful. this can destroy your reputation in the galaxy and you may lose your allies. what’s worse, you can win a lot of new enemies.

Final words about Spore:

Amazing software (not just calling it a game) allows the user to feel so close to the things that he (she) created. it is your own creation, bearing your own personality. He’s acting passively all the time, designing creatures, buildings, outfits, vehicles, spaceships, and even planets! He created the game himself!

He created a space captain from a single-celled organism! What an achievement!

In addition, the spore makes the player think about himself, his environment, his environment, and the entire universe. it really made me think about how small we are in the universe. and how we can resemble alien races (if they are real).

I recommend this game to all those who like strategy games and city building games … and I recommend it to graphic designers as it works very well for designing characters, texturing and animating them.

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