Next, you get on land and.... walk around eating "stuff" and dodging bad guys...
and there you have to to be social with creatures of your race to go to tribal stage.
in the civilization stage you build up a civilization and fight wars or do diplomacy like in civilization.
in space you can browse to other stars (if you have the interstellar-drive), find new creatures (perhaps sentient/sapient ones), build colonies, terraform planets, fight wars, do diplomacy (build up a st-like federation or a sw-like galactic empire) and so on and so forth. that's the infinit endgame.
alternately, sucking critters into your UFO (for what purpose exactly?)
you can transport it to another planets or do genetic experiments to it.
or you can use the beam and throw the creature into orbit
I'm certainly trivializing things,
a little bit
r. Wright doesn't give much in the way of decisions a player may face and, when he does, he doesn't really explain the advantages/disadvantages of such decisions. I can have three fingers, or four fingers, the mouth on the torso or the neck..... but what difference does it make?
how your creature attacks, how fast it will walk/run, if its herbivore/carnivore/omnivore, how strong it is....
I must refer to the pulsating carbuncle known as "Black & White"
yea, i was so excited over b&w since i heard. then it was delayed and again delayed, finally i bought it 2 month after its release, played for 2 months and that's it. i just got to the 2nd island.
but what i think is, you really couldn't do anything. it was fascinating how your creature's interacting and so, but that's it. in spore you can do so much things AND (what i think is the best fo spore) everything ingame is done by players out in the world. plants, creatures, huts, buildings, vehicles .....
you have really a sandboxgame.
Call me jaded, but it looks like more of a novelty/toy than a game (which is exactly how I considered "The Sims").
WW said in an intervew that his games weren't actually games, but hobbies. and spore will be the same. they're sandboxgames.
and exactly that's it i like on this games. they are openended.
