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EA's since confirmed that Mac, DS and mobile versions will both arrive on that date too. At the end of each phase, the player's actions cause their creature to be assigned a characteristic. Each phase has three characteristics, usually based on how aggressively or peacefully the phase was played. Characteristics determine how the creature will start the next phase and give it abilities that can be used later in the game.
Spore is a game that is separated into stages, each stage presenting a different type of experience with different goals to obtain. The five stages are the Cell stage, the Creature stage, the Tribal stage, the Civilization stage, and the Space stage. In order to advance to the next stage of the game, players must complete the objective for each stage. Once completed, the player has the option to advance to the next stage, or to continue playing.
The cell stage sometimes referred to as the tide pool, cellular, or microbial stage is the very first stage in the game, and begins with a cinematic explanation for how the protagonist's cell got onto the planet through the scientific concept of panspermia, with a meteor crashing into the ocean of a planet and breaking apart, revealing a single-celled organism. The player guides this simple microbe around in a 3D environment on a single 2D plane, reminiscent of flOw, where it must deal with fluid dynamics and predators, while eating meat chunks from dead weaker microbes or plants.
The player may choose whether the creature is a herbivore or a carnivore prior to starting the stage. A player may choose to remove a part, which will refund the full price of DNA, or add more parts, despite the quantity he already has of them. The player may scale the parts of his cell, including the spinal cord, eyes, and mouth to personalize the look.
The paint editor, accessible from the parts editor, also gives a variety of patterns and colors for a nice look. As the game progresses it becomes possible to make creatures omnivorous as compared to just herbivorous or carnivorous, allowing them to eat both plant matter and smaller living cells by earning the proboscis mouth or by using both the herbivorous and carnivorous mouths together.
The balance of what type of food is eaten plant matter vs. Despite the given mouth, the food the player has eaten directly affects the types of mouths available for him in the creature stage.
Parts are acquired by seeking out special "part tokens" from meteor fragments and other organisms, with them which provide new parts to use in the editor, including spikes, mouths or better propulsion mechanisms. The stage consists of five phases; every half-phase, the creature expands. As the microbe grows, objects that are in the background draw to the foreground, making enormous microbes that formerly lay harmless in the background a possible threat while giving smaller microbes too minuscule to notice for the player.
Most creatures play a major role, and usually represent a threat. Even harmless herbivores can provide a challenge by stealing food if the player is also a herbivore. Carnivorous creatures will continually try to eat the player, or compete for food. If the player can eat flesh, then they can kill and consume other cells their size or, with smaller organisms, they can be swallowed up instantly.
Larger, carnivorous cells will occasionally chase the player's cell and can be very dangerous. These larger cells can be killed, but only if the player's cell has weapon parts. They are difficult to kill with such a large amount of health, but If they do die, they still cannot be eaten, because a smaller cell's mouth can't penetrate their skin. Killing cells at around the player's creature size and larger will earn them new parts, if the killed cell has them, but will not earn any new abilities from smaller, easier to kill cells.
The cell's eating habits in the Cell Stage directly influence its diet in the Creature Stage, and only mouths appropriate to the diet Herbivore, Carnivore, or Omnivore established in the Cell stage will become available in the Creature Stage however, diet restrictions can be overcome by swapping the cell's mouthpiece before entering the Creature phase, regardless of what diet is assigned to the creature.
The ocean floor becomes more prominent as the player progresses, and once the player decides to progress to the next stage, the creature editor appears, prompting the user to add legs before the shift to land. The first creature editor is very limited, with only the unlocked cell parts with new functions and legs to be had, yet the color styles become more complex than before.
When out of the water a cutscene will appear in which the player's creature will call nestmates to join it on land and then move to a nest where the creature stage will start.
Originally another stage involving sea life was after the cell stage but was edited out due to disk space and poor playability with three dimensions. At the beginning of the second stage in the game called the creature stage, the player creates their own land creature. At the very beginning it is similar to the cell stage as you use the same parts, but you now have legs and arms which are not necessary but greatly benefit the player. Also the shape of your creature becomes a 3D format instead of the cell stage's 2D format.
The biosphere contains a variety of animal species, which carnivorous and omnivorous player creatures can hunt for food. There is also a range of plants, some of which bear fruit, a reliable food source for herbivores and omnivores. Environmental phenomena, as well as the creature's vital health and hunger meters, are always a concern and sometimes a challenge. One of the main problems is hunger.
The player must always be wary of the food bar, which must be replenished every few minutes. Attempting to cross an ocean will lead to the player's death if they venture into water that is too deep. A giant version of a species created by the player or randomly by the computer anywhere in the spore galaxy will leap up and eat the player. The player has a home nest where the members of their own species are located.
The nest is where they respawn after dying or mating. The nest is the 'base of operations' for the creature and one should stay near the base for healing and mating. There are many other species in their nests that can be found across the virtually infinite playing map. While interacting with them, you can choose to be friendly or as the game refers to it: social or to be aggressive.
Most creatures work together in their nests and live with each other, just like the player's species. In their nests, a wide variety of things may be found besides the standard creature.
There are Alpha creatures, which have higher health and stats, and babies, which have lower health and stats. There are also eggs, which may be destroyed for experience points, but will hatch eventually. Occasionally, instead of creatures there will be pulsating cocoons that will hatch into creatures after a while.
How the player interacts with the nest will affect how they think of them. For instance, if the player decides to befriend the creatures, they will act friendly toward them and become allies to help them by following them around, but if player attacks and kills some of them, the nest will either get angry and frequently try to attack the player or develop a fear of the player and run away if the player gets close enough to interact or spends enough time near them. The player can then decide whether to use social skills to befriend, or combat skills to hunt, these other species; these decisions will affect the abilities of the player's species in the subsequent stages of the game.
Successful socialization and hunting attempts will gain varying amounts of DNA Points, the continued 'currency' of this stage. DNA points may be spent on many new body parts, which influence how the creature will perform when attacking or socializing. New body parts may be obtained by examining bone piles or fragmentary skeletons scattered throughout the landscape.
Also, when a player defeats or befriends an "alpha" creature, they are given a part, albeit a part that doesn't always have better stats than previously acquired parts. Interacting with other species progresses in the stage and also gives the player's creature the ability to form a pack, or posse, eventually containing up to three creatures.
Any befriended creature may be added to an empty pack slot by making a successful socialization attempt after the species is your ally. Pack members will travel, socialize and fight alongside the player's creature, increasing the odds of befriending other creatures and of surviving combat. Pack members may heal at the home nest, or at the nests of allied or extinct species. This entire process can be done with the player's own species as the player can add his own creatures to the pack instead of trying to befriend other creatures as allies; this is excellent if the player wishes to focus only on either socializing or hunting other races.
Rogue creatures are solitary members of other species. They can be neutral or predominantly angry towards the player's creature, which is usually the result of the Rogue creature's feeding habits. Their most significant difference from normal creatures is that they require massively larger amounts of health than other creatures, making them harder to kill.
They can be befriended, and are valuable pack members because of their excellent statistics. However, befriending them can be a difficult task. Either method will, however, lead to a large bonus of DNA. Epic creatures are enormous creatures which appear randomly throughout the phase. They are always hostile, and can be befriended but only if one befriend a nest of the same type of epic. They have health, and rarely in which they are called "half-epics", and can kill most creatures with a single strike.
As a result, epic creatures are almost impossible to kill during this stage and are often best avoided; during later stages they present a less serious threat. Killing one in this stage grants the epic killer achievement. Epics in Creature Stage are slightly representing dinosaurs, due to their collosal size.
As the player's creature befriends or hunts more of the other creatures, its intelligence increases. Eventually it will be ready for the subsequent Tribal stage; in these, only cultural evolution is possible and the Creature Editor is no longer available. To add new parts, the player's creature can mate with another member of his nest. Then, the creature creator pops up similar to the one on entry to the creature stage when coming from the cell stage , and the player can add new parts to his creature, and take off old ones, earning a full refund on the DNA points used to purchase these parts.
He can also mold the shape of his creature and color it differently using three coats of paint and texture, so that the new creature can look wholly different from the previous version.
More expensive parts will upgrade the player's abilities for their method of interaction. After the player is finished editing, a newly evolved generation of creatures will appear with the new parts and form. After the brain of the player's species evolves sufficiently, the species may enter the tribal stage. Physical development ceases, as does the player's exclusive control over an individual creature, as the game focuses on the birth of division of labor for the species.
This is only possible if the player played the previous stages; if the player started directly from the Galaxy Screen , they are locked. This stage begins with a humorous cutscene parodying A Space Odyssey , depicting the player's creature attempting to make fire using a stick tool, throwing it into the air, swaying as the stick comes down on its head, and finally succeeding.
The game during this stage is similar to an RTS. The player may give the tribe tools such as weapons, musical instruments, and healing or food-gathering implements.
Food now replaces "DNA points" as the player's currency, and can be spent on structures and additional tribe members, or used to appease other tribes. Creatures also gain the option to wear clothes, the editing of which replaces the Creature Editor in the 'Tribal Editor'.
Additional creatures may be domesticated in the Tribal phase, which provide eggs for food. As you explore and play in this limitless universe of unique worlds, your personal Sporepedia tracks all the creatures you've met and places you've visited. Take complete control of your creature's fate as you guide it through the following six evolutionary phases: Tidepool phase: Fight with other creatures and consume them to adjust the form and abilities of your creature. It's survival of the fittest at the most microscopic level.
Creature phase: Venture onto dry land and help your creature learn and evolve with forays away from your safe haven. Carnivore or Herbivore? Social or Independent? The choice is yours. Tribal phase: Instead of controlling an individual creature, you are now caring for an entire tribe of your genetic craftwork. Give them tools and guide their interactions as you slowly upgrade their state of existence. City phase: Bring your creatures' race into a new golden era by building up the technology, architecture, and infrastructure of their city.
Civilization phase: Once your city is established, your creatures begin seeking out and interacting with other cultures.
You can have them do so with an olive branch or a war cry—either way, the goal for your creatures is to unify the planet. Space phase: The time has come to move on to other worlds in your solar system. Make first-contact, colonize, or terraform, then venture further to find other solar systems scattered throughout a magnificently rendered galaxy. A 'mission' structure provides new goals and paths to follow as you begin to spread through the universe.
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