When I heard about this game over a year ago I was pretty stoked. It has been in the wood works for over three years, so you would expect greatness. It had all the makings of a great game. You could evolve from a little cell all the way up to a sentient being who travels the galaxy in a spaceship. There are five stages in the game the cell, creature, tribal, civilization, and space stage. You can create your own creature and content throughout all but the space stage(besides your ship).

It sounds cool, and it is for the first day or so. Then it starts to get boring in space, everyone says they love the space mode, but wait till you play it enough. You have to travel back and forth preventing eco disaster every ten min which gets monotonous. On top of that the wars with other nations aren't that fun and are more of a task than enjoyment. There are better space games out there likes Sins of a Solar Empire.

If you try to play the game over again from the beginning it still isn't that fun. The only phase that isn't similar to other games are the cell and creature phase. But you can only play that so many times before it gets boring. In the original game trailer the creature phase was more like the Discovery Channel. More gritty and raw. The animal would actually tear the meat off its prey. But now it is more like a childish cartoon. It is literally hard to make your character look intimidating. Plus every time you die you just spawn again in the same level. What kind of challenge is that? You can't lose essentially. While kids may enjoy that, real gamers want to challenge themselves. Even with higher difficulty you still can't lose and their are little setbacks if any till the space age. If this game had been multiplayer where you can challenge your friend's creatures to battles, that would add more to the replayability.

Sadly, this is the first time Will Wright has ever let me down. It's like he gave a half-hearted attempt at this one. Plus they made the game too kiddy like for the extreme gamer. Its like a game you would get your kids to keep em busy for a long while. The design and controls are easy enough for them to learn almost instantly.