I am truely glad for anyone who enjoys this game, alas, I do not. As I posted earlier, I just feel this game to be a total let down, boring/repetitive/linear and rather goalless. I'm just trying to finish the Civ stage to see if the space has any hope of reviving the game for me, but as that about 4/5 through the game, I don't see this last stage will make the game suddenly feel like fun for me. Especially as you cannot go online and visit other people's planets for social or war reasons, apart from sharing what your creature looks like, whooope dooo!
Like someone has stated, it is indeed like marmite, you either hate it or love it. I think anyone who enjoyed SIMS(and to a lesser extend DOGZ & CATZ), will probably endup enjoying this game a lot. But for people who were hoping a more openended game like CIV or more ability to explore the universe with other people online and visit their planet for social or warlike interaction, you will be soarly disappointed.
There is a lot of 'Dry Cracker Syndrome' with people and this game though. ie, you have been starving for a while and someone hands you a dry cracker, you think it the best meal you ever had, but its still just a dry cracker. I'm sure that most people who love the initial look and feel of this game will pretty soon get bored and it will be left to gather dust.
The 2 releases after this dry summer, Space Siege and Spore, have both been major letdowns for me, lets hope for something, anything to come along before Xmas and revive my faith in games.
But for now, I say no thank you, I will not pay £££ for a dry cracker, my bookcase is already full of them, gathering dust.
