Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This game looks good, but overall it's just not fun to play. Having now played through the various stages of the game at least once, I can safely say that the game is disappointing. The start is very promising, but as you progress, you realize that your choices are actually very limited. You can be peaceful, aggressive, or intermediate, which correspond roughly to herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore, respectively. This narrow choice of strategies, combined with the grind required to find "parts" for your creature in the early stages really limits the experience. The grind for "parts", combined with the limits placed on how your creature can "evolve" really dampen the limited fun that might have been garnered as a creature builder. For example, while you can build a six legged creature, you are charged more DNA points, even though a six legged creature has no advantage over a 1-legged creature. If more legs equated to some sort of evolutionary advantage, I could understand the limit, but since it amounts to an aesthetic choice, it makes no sense to artificially limit your choices. The much hyped evolution concept is non-existent. You simply build your creature from parts that you find, like a paper-doll. The parts have statistical values, and these determine your success with the limited strategies available to you. You run around with your paper doll, make friends or enemies, and move on. Rinse, repeat. If you enjoy paper dolls, you'll enjoy this game. If you're looking for the evolution simulation that Spore was purported to be, keep looking because Spore is not it.