Friday, October 10, 2008

Spore, the most sophisticated simulation game

Have you ever played a simulation game called The Sims? Or maybe some of you are fans of this game? Basically, we play as "sims" which represent humans and act like we people do such as eating, go to work, designing our home, socializing, dating, married and so on until the "sims" die. This game is developed by Maxis, which known as the best simulation game developer. Now Maxis has released a new game for PC called Spore. The official release date is on 5th September 2008 and 2 days later for US. I don't know when the official release date for Indonesia. Anyway if you want the game, you can order it from ebay.com or other online shops. It costs around 50 USD for the full version. But I suppose you can find this game on Mangga Dua Mall, much cheaper but not guaranteed...

You start this game by choosing a planet on a galaxy and create your own "creature". Don't worry about it though, it's not that hard designing the creature since you'll be using drag and drop features. And if you are too lazy for this part, you can just download or using default design. But this is the interesting part, you shouldn't skip this one. Trust me, its fun. First, you'll create a unicellular creature that live on the water and control them to find foods. Every time you eat, you'll get DNA point which can be used to add more parts to your creature, simply evolve your creature. Also your creature will get bigger every time you eat. After you reach certain point, you can evolve your creature to more advanced creature and live on the land. Later on, your creature will developed again into tribal stage, civilization stage and finally space stage.

On the tribal stage, you can outfit your creature, primitive style of course. Then on the civilization stage you can outfit them with more modern style. On the Civilization stage also, so must design your own city and vehicles. Interesting! No physic skill needed and you can create your own vehicles. Ever though using ramjet (airship engine) for your land vehicle? In Spore, it's possible. You can pour all your creativity and crazy imagination here. In Space stage, of course you will create your own spaceship. Really cool! I spend many hours designing these things. And another wonderful feature is, your creation can be shared online and of course you can browse the others as well. Just imagine if your creation become top download list. Amazing!

On the space stage, you can do many things. You can choose to your liking. You can be a conqueror, millionaire, planet artist, ecosystem stabilizer, traveler, etc. The main goal on this stage is you must reach the center of the galaxy. I haven’t reached there though. The galaxy is so big. Maybe it’s consist more than 1 million star systems and 4 million planets. See it and you’ll know it. It’s very hard to the center. And there is a guardian civilization that resides near the center. They’ll attack anyone that tries to reach the center.

Overall, this is another nice game that should be on your collection. Despite of many unsatified people because of security system which only allows you to install this game 3 times only.
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1 comment:

Andrew Winata said...

Jogja!!!I play this game too!!I like it!!!