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Simulation Publisher: EA Developer: EA Maxis   PC Review -
'Spore'  by Alan Butterworth on Sept. 22, 2008 @ 3:26 a.m. PDT
Genre: Simulation Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Maxis
Release Date: September 7, 2008  Spore is a sim-everything god
game in which you nurture and develop your very own creation
from a single-celled organism all the way through to an
intelligent space-faring race over a five-course evolutionary
odyssey. With the powerful creature creator toolset, Spore gives
players unrivaled opportunity to express themselves using the
equivalent of 3-D digital clay to create creatures, vehicles and
buildings. It also has a seamless online sharing system that
allows you to populate your game worlds with the imaginative
offspring of your friends and everyone else on the Internet.
While it's bursting at the seams with innovative features and
tremendous scope, it falls a little flat when it comes to the
actual gaming experience, which is often