EA walked me through a substantial chunk of the game and I had lots of time to run around and mess about in what is seemingly a massive game. Huge environments encourage and reward exploration, with new creature creator parts, upgrades and other odds and sods sprayed across the map. The aim is to find your own path through the game and play it your way. You can fight, help, explore, or simply rush your way through the whole experience. Based on how you play the game, your creature will acquire different characteristics that you can tweak in the creature creator. This is almost a straight lift from the PC version, with all the parts from both the original Spore and its expansion, along with some more chucked in for good measure. This allows you to make some truly strange and wonderful creatures. I spent a good twenty minutes messing around with the creature creator alone and conceived a rather odd looking beast that had far too many limbs. Glorious.

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