An Explanation for Spore

[A Black Falcon]

I was never hugely interested with either version of Spore, but still, I do agree that the more scientific version could have been pretty interesting, while the game as shipped is just too simplistic to be worth bothering with. At least if it were a complicated sim (with some kind of systems in place to make it accessible, but with the serious side there as well for people who spent the time to learn it) it'd have had that depth and accuracy. As it is it has neither... too bad.

They tried this with SimCity sort of, with the kids' line that started with SimTown... and younger children liked SimTown, but not anyone who'd loved SimCity or SC2k's depth. Here we can't compare things because only a very few people have played the first version, but still, I wonder if things aren't similar...