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- Platform: Nintendo DS
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Guide and nurture your creature on an epic quest to save its galaxy. Start as a humble, simple creature then meet other creatures and fight or befriend them to progress through your grand adventure. As your creature's story unfolds, grow and add to its abilities by collecting and adding parts and adding personalized colors and patterns in the easy and intuitive Creature Editor. Eventually uncover the mystery of your planet's trouble, and work to set things right!
While enjoying Spore's enthralling single-player gameplay, you'll also be able to share your creatures via Nintendo Wi-Fi with other DS players, and store your favorite creatures on your DS. You can also track your achievements with a fun badge system. Spore for the DS is a unique game, custom-made for the DS platform to take full advantage of the popular stylus and Touch Screen features.
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61 of 66 people found the following review helpful
By Mrs. Bryony A. Shaw
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I am new to the whole Spore thing - don't play games on PC. I didn't have any expectations for this game really.
I have only had it 2 days but have been pretty absorbed in it and wracked up quite a few hours play. As I have seen written in other reviews, I would agree that the gameplay is pretty linear - you don't get any feeling that you can do anything original other than what your creature looks like as the game is full of goals that you have to complete before you can move on.
You start off with a little creature with no arms or legs called Oogie who is stranded on a planet and trying to get off to save his friend. You are then taken to the nest where you can create your creature into anything you want by adding arms and legs and tails, changing colour etc. You can go back to the nest at any point in the game and change your creature. He moves around the planet in the same way as animal crossing, you drag the stylus across the screen, moving him where you want to. Each item or creature you meet gives you various options of what you can do with them. Some creatures you can make friends with by playing simple mini games and some you have to fight - the fighting does not really need any skill, although until you have collected various fighting body parts which you can then add to your creature, you do tend to run out of energy before you can defeat anything.
You basically have free run of the island which is a nice size and you have a list of goals to complete before you can move on in the game. There is always something to do tho and new creatures popping up for you to be friend.... Read more ›
I have only had it 2 days but have been pretty absorbed in it and wracked up quite a few hours play. As I have seen written in other reviews, I would agree that the gameplay is pretty linear - you don't get any feeling that you can do anything original other than what your creature looks like as the game is full of goals that you have to complete before you can move on.
You start off with a little creature with no arms or legs called Oogie who is stranded on a planet and trying to get off to save his friend. You are then taken to the nest where you can create your creature into anything you want by adding arms and legs and tails, changing colour etc. You can go back to the nest at any point in the game and change your creature. He moves around the planet in the same way as animal crossing, you drag the stylus across the screen, moving him where you want to. Each item or creature you meet gives you various options of what you can do with them. Some creatures you can make friends with by playing simple mini games and some you have to fight - the fighting does not really need any skill, although until you have collected various fighting body parts which you can then add to your creature, you do tend to run out of energy before you can defeat anything.
You basically have free run of the island which is a nice size and you have a list of goals to complete before you can move on in the game. There is always something to do tho and new creatures popping up for you to be friend.... Read more ›
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By H. Walton
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
First of all, I've played both "Spore" for PC, and "Spore Creatures" for DS. Spore Creatures wins hands down. Without even taking into account the whole DRM thing, this is much more enjoyable.
It plays similar to any RPG - complete goals, retain health, improve yourself through collecting and improving - but has quite a nice story to go with it, your creature's friend has been kidnapped by an alien and you need to find him. The animations are pretty cute, there are buyable cheats through game points, and it's generally good, clean fun. Anyone from the age of 8 should get on with this just fine, although the fighting isn't explained very well to begin with.
The playtime is also fairly long as well, I've spent more time on this than Spore for PC and I've pretty much finished the latter.#
Buy this if you want a nice, straightforward game for your DS and don't already have Pokemon.
It plays similar to any RPG - complete goals, retain health, improve yourself through collecting and improving - but has quite a nice story to go with it, your creature's friend has been kidnapped by an alien and you need to find him. The animations are pretty cute, there are buyable cheats through game points, and it's generally good, clean fun. Anyone from the age of 8 should get on with this just fine, although the fighting isn't explained very well to begin with.
The playtime is also fairly long as well, I've spent more time on this than Spore for PC and I've pretty much finished the latter.#
Buy this if you want a nice, straightforward game for your DS and don't already have Pokemon.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Peri Urban
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Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The PC version of Spore is one of the most reviled and criticised games of recent years, possibly of all time. It truly is one of the most disappointing gaming experiences I have ever had - such anticipation, such terrible design!
Spore Creatures on the DS is a very different game, but still fails to reach the giddy heights suggested by the hype.
You can "design" your creature at your nest, which is always available by clicking on a button. It's possible to swap body parts, rotate and size them, but gone are the deep tweaking options of the PC version, and frankly, most of the parts make no sense at all. There are many parts that you will never use, and most make absolutely no difference to the game play - including all the bodies and all the decorative spines and scales. Legs often look like tree branches and mouths and eyes don't join together with a head and are left floating weirdly on one of several available body shapes.
Things don't get any prettier when you venture out to play. Your creature is two dimensional in a three dimensional landscape, so turning through 90 degrees necessitates a moment of paper thin invisibility. It's as if your creature has been cut out of a magazine. If you rotate the camera using the shoulder buttons you will notice that all the landscape decorations such as trees and other creatures are also two-D cut-outs that rotate to stay visible, very much like the fifteen year old Doom engine did.
You can fight or befriend certain creatures, but others will forever be aggressive, meaning that the confusing and frustrating combat system is unavoidable. It isn't so bad that you want to give up, because thankfully getting killed simply means you start again from your nest.... Read more ›
Spore Creatures on the DS is a very different game, but still fails to reach the giddy heights suggested by the hype.
You can "design" your creature at your nest, which is always available by clicking on a button. It's possible to swap body parts, rotate and size them, but gone are the deep tweaking options of the PC version, and frankly, most of the parts make no sense at all. There are many parts that you will never use, and most make absolutely no difference to the game play - including all the bodies and all the decorative spines and scales. Legs often look like tree branches and mouths and eyes don't join together with a head and are left floating weirdly on one of several available body shapes.
Things don't get any prettier when you venture out to play. Your creature is two dimensional in a three dimensional landscape, so turning through 90 degrees necessitates a moment of paper thin invisibility. It's as if your creature has been cut out of a magazine. If you rotate the camera using the shoulder buttons you will notice that all the landscape decorations such as trees and other creatures are also two-D cut-outs that rotate to stay visible, very much like the fifteen year old Doom engine did.
You can fight or befriend certain creatures, but others will forever be aggressive, meaning that the confusing and frustrating combat system is unavoidable. It isn't so bad that you want to give up, because thankfully getting killed simply means you start again from your nest.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A. Mills
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Total value for money, my son is fascinated by this game and would play on it all day if I let him !
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By S. E. Ward
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I bought this game for my grandson's 10th birthday and he absolutely loves it! It is challenging and creative, and there is nothing offensive in it - unfortunately something which is rare nowadays. I thoroughly recommend it!
By Mrs. H
Amazon Verified Purchase
My daughter loves the starting sequence and has enjoyed finding new species and collecting them. She enjoyed it so much, her brother wanted one too!
Amazon Verified Purchase
I am very impressed again as to how quickly the game arrived, I have managed to get to level four and am stuck, I keep getting killed. I am enjoying the game very much. For those who are exsperts on game playing would be able to play this game easy. It's a fantastic game
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great, but a tincy bit repetetive
Um, why does my creature run out of energy after 5 seconds of fighting???
First of all, I am 10 and in my opinion, this game is great. Read more
First of all, I am 10 and in my opinion, this game is great. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2011
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good fun for inexperienced gamers
My 7 year old is easily discouraged by most games and either gives up or gets his older brother to play the difficult bits.
With Spore he's been perfectly happy. Read more
With Spore he's been perfectly happy. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2009 by wombat
1.0 out of 5 stars
don't bother
if you are 11-15 or like running around a cartoon world making friends and killing enemies then this is for you otherwise not worth it hav already traded it for a better game
Published on 1 May 2009 by J. Malley
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing
I was expecting a lot more from this game, I guess I should have bought the PC version as this one is only a collection of goals to reach whitout any personal touch.
Published on 19 April 2009 by F. Hamelin
3.0 out of 5 stars
spore creatures nds
Spore creatures is a great game where you can practically make anything with the chosen body parts. This game cleans up pretty well for a smaller version of the PC game. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2009 by Mrs. Janet K. Mason
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's a good game, but I'm stuck!
Received this as a Christmas gift. I enjoy playing the game but have now got to a point where I'm stuck and can't seem to get any further.
Published on 13 Feb 2009 by S. Evans
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spore creatures
great game for young children, but older children may become bored with the game very quickly.
Good price for hours of fun.
Good price for hours of fun.
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by Mrs. A. Kane
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ds Disaster
This game is a waste of money. I was bored within five minutes as you keep having to go back to the nest over and over to add body parts. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2008 by Ms. E. L. Parfitt
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