1UP: Spore Hero Arena Review

While there's a decent variety of creation options, the small character models and lack of visible detail on the DS screen makes the joy of creature creation negligible. It's hard to want to endure extra strike-mashing for arms, eyes, and hands that are barely indistinguishable from each other in-game. 1UP doesn't know what it would take to make a game of Spore's scope on the DS, but they know it requires an entirely different approach than the lamentably simplistic Spore Hero Arena. D/A+