Darkspore Review (Crush! Frag! Destroy!)
CFD!'s Nate Andrews reviews the questionable evolution of Maxis' Spore:
"Two years ago or so, I wrote a cursory piece about a Half-Life 2 mod called Research and Development.
"The thesis of this brief article revolved around the concept of “[identifying] and [isolating] a small part of a multilayered body of work, and then [molding] that into something that maintains the same level of quality on its own,” as the mod did with Half-Life 2’s physics-based puzzlery.
"It was a fleeting idea, directed solely at a small project, but it bubbled up once again as I played Darkspore."
