![]() ![]() ![]() There's actually a compliment in there - Spore is engaging enough that you'll want to explore all its nooks and crannies. Barring some future updates like the social creature sharing of the full version, I expect I'll find myself not playing Spore Origins in a couple of months simply because I've done everything that there is to be done. ConclusionĪlthough, as I said, I'll still keep coming back to Spore for awhile, it's not quite deep enough or fun enough to make it a long-term go-to game for me. The video can be skipped, but hitting that skip button tends to make the game grind for about the same time the video takes anyway. It takes you five minutes to do the same on your iPod, after scrolling through a couple of play lists, of course. The only real downside is that with the included intro video you're looking at around 25 seconds from tapping the icon to playing the game, a long time for a casual game like this. By Tracy Erickson iPod Spore Origins It took millions of years for single-celled organisms to evolve into complex animals. When you quit and then re-enter the game, you're always placed back where you left off. Spore Origins also does a great job with stability and saving your place. There are hidden chambers to find (hint: blow up the blobby-eye-creature), achievement bubbles to grab, and new creatures here too as well. There are also little power-ups called "symbiotes" scattered throughout the levels that give you quick abilities like Poison and Shield.Įvery 5 levels or so the game stops being about just eating as much as possible and instead becomes a "navigate through the tunnels" type of level, which is actually a nice break. If get large enough, creatures you formerly weren't able to gobble up suddenly get little circles around them indicating that the annoying snapper that used to kick your amoebic butt is suddenly your inferior. ![]() The second is that as you eat creatures within a level, you actually begin to grow as your life-meter increases. The first is the ability to add little widgets to your creature like eyes, teeth, and so on in the Creature Creator (more on that below). We'll have to wait and see if the iPod game reappears this week, or if its release will be held back until the other versions of the game go on sale early next month.Of course, this being Spore, you have other ways of surviving the advanced levels, both related to evolution. However, some got it to work, and it seems the game will follow the pattern of the mobile and iPhone versions, with you guiding your Spore around primordial ooze eating smaller things and avoiding bigger things - while upgrading your Spore with new parts every so often. Judging by comments on the MacRumors story that first reported the game's availability, there may have been some technical gremlins in the game, with several users saying it hung at the title screen. However, by this morning the game had been removed from iTunes, and there's no sign of it on the UK store either. Yesterday, Spore Origins suddenly appeared on the iTunes Store in the US, and could be bought for iPod and iPod Nano for $4.99. Well, you can seemingly add another format to that list: iPod. Electronic Arts is gearing up for a huge push on its long-awaited Spore game next month, with the PC game complemented by several handheld versions, including DS, mobile and iPhone. ![]()
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