Posted: 9/12/2008 9:53:03 PM EDT
| Anyone played it yet? It looks like it could be a great game or potentially grow old after a day. Any AAR's? |
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Its a good game in theory... The first 4 levels are pretty simplistic, and the space stage, while very open ended, gets boring pretty quickly, the missions repeat and after a while its just a grind. The only redeeming feature is that you can make your cell / animal / person / buildings / spaceship look like anything you want, but even that novelty wears off quickly. ETA: its just not very deep... like the creature you create, there's like a total of 10 different abilities you can get via parts you add to them, most parts repeat abilities, and half the abilities you won't use... if you're gonna be a warrior race you won't use the diplomatic ones, and vice-versa. The placement of them on the creature doesn't matter... Its like if you took 5 different games, stripped out all of the details that make them a complete game on their own, and bundled them together. Like the civilization phase was said to be akin to simcity... if simcity only had 3 different buildings, 1 land vehicle, 1 boat vehicle, and 1 flying vehicle... and you couldn't build stuff where you wanted... |
There is enough misinformation about evolution around this forum as it is....  My favorite was the part where you go directly from an aquatic tadpole looking thing to a terrestrial biped. I guess some of the concepts apply, once I was on land my bad ass poison pods were no longer beneficial so they were selected out. All and all I'd be pissed if I had paid 50 bucks for it, hell I'd be pissed if I was anticipating this game for four years like some have been. I found out about it a week ago. 
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