A wonderfully creative game with lots of personality that was too ambitious for it's time and budget.

The game goes through 5 stages that stand alone as completely independent games, all completely unique from each other, but still keeping choices and reactions from every choice you make along the way. This is combined with a creature creator that's unlike anything in any other game on the market. You also create cars, buildings and spaceships. At the end you can even terraform planets. The games is also filled with a wonderfully charming personality and uniqueness that stays with you long after you play the game. As a creative little kid this was one of the most engaging games ever.

However looking at it from an adult view, the game is disappointingly simple in each of it's stages, and should probably have more stages. Going back and playing the game now can only carry my attention for a couple hours, and even then it's mostly carried by nostalgia. It feels like a game that was meant to soar high, but was shot down before it could really rise. I wait for the day when someone makes spore 2 and releases the full potential lol