Play God

If there's any video game that almost anyone can relate to, it's the games where you get to play god. The reason for this is simple: you create the game. Recently, a new god-game has emerged, and it's sweeping the gaming world. From the man that brought you The Sims, introducing:
SPORE.
In SPORE, you create damn near everything: from the creatures to the buildings to your interplanetary spaceship. All of the controls are intuitive, and when put together, any combination looks beautiful and moves very naturally. The entire game is you guiding your creature from a single cell in the tide pools of your planet to the envy of the galaxy, controlling your full animal, its tribe, and its sophisticated city along the way. The game combines RPG with RTS, with a unique play that leaves no two games ever the same. As your species evolves from microbe to space tyrant, the choices you make along the way determine its traits, characteristics, and special "powers," or abilities. It's all excellent fun, even if the end, the space stage of the game, gets monotonous after a while. All in all, the game's well worth its $50.

Now for a small taste of SPORE:

Team up with other members of your species to take down rival animals in the Creature Stage.


Take over rival factions' cities through economic, religious, or (in this case) military means.

Create animals and machines using the intuitive creator.

Well, that's about it for now. Don't forget to put SPORE on your Christmas list!

Note: None of the pictures in the above post were actually taken by myself or anyone else of my SPORE game. I simply went to Google Images and typed in "spore." NONE OF THESE IMAGES ARE MY OWN!!!