Just like the original Spore, you can equip your creatures with a variety of body parts, each offering their own boosts to your creature's stats and abilities. These give the hero his 'starting abilities,' so to speak, and most heroes have some unique abilities they bring to the fray as well.Д®verything else about your creatures is determined by what you equip them with. For example, each hero falls under one of five genesis types (basically a simplified elemental system), one of three classes, and can fight either melee or ranged. You are actually modifying pre-set heroes, and while you still have a lot of flexibility with the system, there are some stats that act as a starting point for each hero. You also aren't making creatures from scratch like you did in the original Spore. You can purchase some overall upgrades for your parties, but all-in-all the strength of your creatures is determined by the items and body parts you equip them with. Instead, you level up, and each time you level you basically get a chance to futz around with the DNA of another creature. Your creatures don't really level up in the game. You only get to control one creature at a time, but you can freely switch between the creatures in your party whenever you like. Throughout the game you design creatures for battle which you then sort into parties of three. Luckily enough, Darkspore's gameplay is nowhere near as boring as its story. Honestly, it all just became 'blah blah blah' to me after the first few minutes anyway. another dungeon) and get you grinding some more levels. As it stands Darkspore's story is really just an excuse to push you on to another planet (i.e. This might work just fine for the original Spore and other simulation games, but if you are going to make an action RPG you need to write a story that actually has relevance in the here and now. Everything is basically told in past tense. You never really get to interact with anyone or anything important over the course of the game. It prattles on about the planets you visit and the events that took place before the game even started, but it does so in absolute barrages of exposition that you just don't care about because it takes forever and distracts you from the action. is the primary vehicle (see what I did there?) for storytelling, and it's a bad one. OK, so I embellished the plot a bit for the sake of comedy there, but it really doesn't get much better. in your ship tells you, 'DOY, you just let the Darkspore overrun the galaxy!' Then it's off to clean up your galactic mess вЂ¦ and this is the entire game.

Flash forward some time later when you wake up from your sleep and the A.I. This turns out to be a bad idea considering you basically just let the Darkspore overrun the galaxy. So, to deal with this horrible monstrosity, you and the rest of the Crogenitors run the heck away and go into cryogenic sleep. Unfortunately the DNA goes out of control and creates the Darkspore, which are also super-powered hybrid crab-elephants, except they're evil, which my scientific colleagues tell me is a bad thing. You see, a long time ago a special type of awesome, mutagenic, Ninja Turtles-like DNA was discovered in deep space, and being the scientific bastards that we are, we obviously started using this DNA to create experimental, super-powered hybrid crab-elephants (or at least that's how the story goes down in my head). What is a Crogenitor? As far as I can tell it's some sort of weird, hand-wavey magical scientist thing that is a master of DNA and making new creatures or something.

In Darkspore you take the role of a Crogenitor. The game is a little rough around the edges, but is, as previously advertised, decently enjoyable. It's basically Maxis' first foray into the action RPG genre, and it shows. Instead, it promised us a decently enjoyable, top down, Diablo-esque, sci-fi RPG using what was perhaps the best part of the original Spore, the character editor. Darkspore, EA and Maxis' follow up to their sim-everything disappointment, didn't promise the world. In 2008 Spore promised us the world but delivered nothing more than five barebones games and a pretty interesting character editor.

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