GameStar

Graphics (7/10)

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Detailed Creatures and Buidings

Landscapes lack detail

Impressive Zoom

Muddy textures

Individual Animation

Sound (7/10)

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Creature language is pretty funny

Dull music

Surround-Effects

Balancing (7/10)

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Lots of Ingame-Help

Fluctuant Difficulty - sightly too easy

Useful Sporepedia

Atmosphere (9/10)

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Exciting evolutionary experience

Tiring repetition

Emotional connection to your creature

Controls (6/10)

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Perfect in the Editor

Controls change during game

Confusing and unituitive

Size (9/10)

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Elements in the editor

Most gameplay-stages lack depth

High replay-value

Huge space

Editors (10/10)

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Brilliant construction kits

Easy to handle, but very powerful

Endless Variations

Exchange Content with other players

AI (6/10)

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Infinite Variety of creature populations

Creatures don't differ in behaviour

No Challenge

No fun in just observing

Units (9/10)

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Land-, Water-, Air- and Spaceunits

Poor strategic variety

Vehicles and Buildings

Assembled Parts define skills

Campaign (9/10)

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Five gamestages with different tasks

No suspense

Journey through evolution

Cute slapstick-sequences