The original Spore, released just last year, offered a hugely open-ended creature editing tool that let you make all sorts of crazy-looking critters and then follow them through the evolutionary cycle from the petri dish to the tribal stage to the space age. Galactic Adventures, the upcoming expansion pack, will add all-new role-playing game and construction-set elements to Spore by letting you create crazy-looking alien critters that aren't just representatives of new species, but rather are spacefaring "captains" that can star in their own role-playing game adventures. Oh, and you'll be able to make your own role-playing adventures, too.
The 2009 GameStooge Awards continue with the fourth part of the Awards – the Technical category that covers expansions, digital games, and the surprise games of 2009.
Winners:
Best Expansion: Fallout 3: Broken Steel
Best Digital Game (Original): Plants Vs. Zombies
Best Digital Game (Adaptation): Trials HD
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3: ODST
Best Game You Didn't Play: Dead Space Extraction
Best Surprise: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Stardock has released Impulse's Top 10 Sellers list for the week ending on January 9.
GP writes: "The sheer scale of Will Wright's vision for Spore was praiseworthy, even if the final product occasionally felt pinched and clipped.
In brief, Spore zoomed out from the microscopic to the telescopic in five phases as players evolved and nurtured a single celled organism representing a species into a space captain representing a galactic empire. Unfortunately, the first four phases played like a rambling prologue to the final galactic phase. But what it lacked in aspects of game-play it made up for in charm and creativity."
