Rosie from SimsNetwork (as her as her other half, ChEeTaH from The Sims Zone) were some of the lucky few who were able to attend GamesCom 2010 and to preview the latest games from EA.  The following preview is from their time with DarkSpore.

The controls in this game are pretty similar to Spore. I was a bit nervous while playing, but it felt pretty comfortable right after I started, because I had the experience from Spore already. And if you’re not a Spore player but are still eager to try Darkspore, don’t worry, you’ll get those controls under control pretty quickly. You just left click the mouse to walk somewhere and right click to shoot an enemy! Switching between creatures and weapons isn’t hard either. There are special shortcut keys on the keyboard you can use. That makes swapping creatures very easy, even in the heat of the battle.

Some fun facts about Darkspore; when in the creature creator, you can use flare parts. Instead of trading in old parts for parts with better stats, you can remove the abilities from the old part and just keep it on your creature. This means you can use these parts for the looks rather than the abilities. This gives you the opportunity to use more parts to build your creature!

When you play the game you will also get your own profile page at Darkspore.com. This is where you will be able to show off all the awards you got when playing the game. As you play the game you will gain experience, with which you can unlock new heroes to start playing with. Your experience is tracked per player, so getting a new hero doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch again to make him stronger. It also doesn’t matter where you play: as soon as you log in to the game, it will load your creatures, even if it is a completely different PC.

continue reading SNW’s preview on DarkSpore