Spore

Another Game from the "Sims" creator Will Wright. It was released on September the 5th but I only go my hands on it yesterday. Its a great game as promised and really fun to play. For those of you who don't know, the game centre's around the evolution of your species from a tiny microbe up to a space faring civilization in 5 stages, microbial Stage, Creature Stage, Tribal Stage, Civilization stage and space stage. The first stage doesn't take too long and can be completed in around 20 minutes after that the stages get longer, as there is more to achieve in order to progress. You get to the space stage after about 4-5 hours of game play, and this is when it really opens up, as you fly around space Trading and fighting to expand your empire.

Graphically the game is very impressive, but only if you have the hardware to handle it, this game requires a lot of power so make sure your system is up to it. My favorite visual feature is the the way as you progress through the stages you gradually zoom out from the planet revealing more and more detail and then you can zoom out past the solar system to a cluster of stars and then on to view the whole galaxy, its quite impressive.

The editors are also really nice, throughout the game you decide how everything looks using the integrated editors. You decide how your creature evolves and what your the building and vehicles look like, and its all very intuitive and customizable, or you can pick other peoples designs through the "Sporepedia" which is a massive ever growing database created buy the users and can be accessed from within the game, should you be feeling lazy.

This game is truly revolutionary and the developers have done a great job and I love it.