00110102… WTF?!?

I went down to EB Games the other day and they had a whole stand for spore, all the empty cases so I went to buy 1, and they are sold out… I hate it when they do this, there must have been about 50 cases out and yet they are “sold out” and another EBGames store was doing the same thing. I guess it was a good thing though, EBGames was charging roughly $100 but Big W was only charging $74 and it was in stock! (yeah, everyone in Australia get it from Big W not EBGames).

I’ve got to say, I was a little disappointed with Spore. I always thought that the game included over 1,000 creatures on the disk so that you wouldn’t need an internet connection to play but after I launched the game I was told I would need to have a EA account. I wanted to just play with the creatures on the disk, and yet I need to have an internet connection so it can login to my EA account.

After watching all those funny videos of Spore and Robin Williams playing Spore the game just seemed so great. It was easy, funny, and seems so fun but when I started playing it didn’t think it was as good as I thought it would be. After it was delayed multiple times you’d think it would turn out better than your expectations but it wasn’t. The same starts out so slow in the tide pool where you have to swim around eating stuff to grow bigger and eventually get out of the water.

Only once you’re out of the water do you get to start making anything outrageous or funny, although you need to earn the parts you use to make up your creatures by attacking, or befriending the other creatures or finding them in bones. This is not challenging at all, it’s just a matter of either walking around until you see bones, copying what another creature does to befriend it, or repeatedly pressing/clicking a button to attack.

There seems to be no skill needed (although I must admit I haven’t reached the tribe stage yet as I’ve decided I’ll write this first. I’m nearly there though).

The sound in the game was… well almost non-existent but I guess I should expect that. I was hoping it would at least have some cool background music though, but there was nothing good. Don’t get me wrong, there is background sound… just no good background music.

I find it a little strange that you don’t need the DVD in your DVD drive to play but this is a good thing not a bad thing. Another thing I found strange (and this really has nothing to do with the game but I thought I’d mention it anyway) is what came in the case. I know they always give you something showing you other games in the series or a game that’s coming out, and in mine I had something for “The Sims 3″ and thank you EA for delaying something I have been waiting a long time for… AGAIN.

-Hintswen