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Spore Review - Creature Stage and Tribal Stage in Spore Spore Review - Interface, Community, and the Sporepedia Spore Review - Space, the Final Stage Tags Action Games (437).

You are an entire civilization Your customization options expand enormously at this stage as you get to create towers, factories, entertainment complexes, houses, and vehicles (land, sea, and air).

You also must plan the layout of buildings in your cities to maximize happiness and production.

You even get to adorn your creature with articles of clothing and other accoutrements.

This stage is also RTS-like, and it is significantly more complicated than the Tribal Stage.

Detractors should hopefully be able to see the progression and how the game is trying to ease more casual gamers into the flow of things.

Not everyone has played 10 RTS games before Spore, so bringing them along one step at a time has its merits.

Conquer the Planet Again Once again, your goal in this stage is to dominate the planet.

In addition to the standard military or diplomatic means, you can also take over other cities through religious conversion.

Functionally, religious conquest is very similar to military conquest, but the process differs noticeably and the visual effects are quite appealing.

The replayability of this stage is high as the different types of planet conquest are each enjoyable in their own way.

Some are harder than others depending on your own playstyle and the types of neighbors you randomly end up with.

You also manage resources more seriously in this stage than in any other, and you are introduced to the most valuable commodity in the universe: spice.

As every reader of Dune knows, the spice must flow, and this is certainly true in Spore.

You must control as many spice mines as possible to fund your burgeoning empire.

Your first conflicts with other nations (for lack of a better word) may very well be caused by competition for spice mines.

When you unlock sea vessels or airplanes your people rejoice at the technological marvel.

If you go the military route, using nuclear missiles on another city is quite impressive.

Once you have conquered the planet (again), your civilization advances to the space age.

As much fun as you may have had up to this point, brace yourself: the space stage is really where the full game begins.

This post is part of the series: Spore - A Detailed Review of the latest Will Wright creation This comprehensive review of developer Will Wrights PC Game Spore covers many aspects of the game in great detail.

Spore - A Detailed Review of the latest Will Wright creation Spore - The Achievement System and the Cell Stage Spore - Creature Stage and Tribal Stage Spore - Civilization Stage Spore - Space, the Final Stage Spore - Interface, Community, and the Sporepedia Spore - Conclusions, Pros, Cons and Score for this review.

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