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I was hyped about the game from the few very first videos from 2006 or 2005, don't quite remember, at that point it looked fantastic. Through the years they made it look more and more cartoony, but that didn't phase me a lot, if the game is fun it's fun no matter how it looks.
Now I picked it up, played the night over, and don't feel like spending much time with it anymore. The game is dull, boring & repetitive. I guess I'm going to get a lot of bashing for saying this, but this game obviously isn't for me.
The cell stage is the most fun part of this game and that's over in like 10-20 minutes, but if you care you can play it on endlessly, however you wont evolve into a more advanced creature in that pool anymore, so there's no point playing on and on, you can't even customize your paramecium anymore, so you need to get on land to get it going, but there the boredom begins.
Either you make friends with dances, motions, and what not, which half of the time fail to impress your fellow inhabitants and you loose your nerve, so you instantly go onto killing them, I might notice, that you can advance either by killing or diplomacy, however as said, killing is the obvious way to go, without loosing your nerves.
Once you kill so and so many of those other creatures, you enter the tribal stage, where it all begins from start, you either fight or make allies, where fighting is the obvious choice, oh and you have to collect food now and hatch stuff, which again is tedious (send 2 guys to fish and the rest to attack) and you're basically done and won everything and you move to the "modern" age, where it's again the same only now, instead of huts and spears you have sky scrapers and tanks, you finish this and off to space you go.
Boring as hell.
I really don't know where the fun in this game is, a lot of it went down the drain, when I designed my first tank, and put like 10 guns on it different sizes, rockets what not only to find out that when it actually attacks, some generic fire is drawn on screen, nothing that should represent my uber killing machine.
So everything you do in that creator is purely cosmetic aside of the non visible +armor +damage bonuses which in todays time I really don't care much about, I want the guns I put on that thing, to be working, shooting and doing what they are supposed to do.
Same goes for boats, planes and in the end your space shit, I put like a tripple earth destorying laser on that thing, 4 banks on missiles, 3 mega lasers and that thing was still unarmed until the game offered me a mini laser (not even a visual upgrade) to kill off some infected creatures. Seriously a bigger gimick as this modeler, I never saw in any game. And at the space age, you basicly fly from system to system do some missions upgrade your space craft, rinse and repeat.
The game is a huge huge disappointment for me, but I guess it will receive awesome reviews as it is one of the most hyped games of this century, but as said, it's really not, and I really don't know where all the development time went, as there is basically one and the same thing going on all the time.
I'm returning my game, if the shop will take it back as soon as possible.
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