When the Spore Creature Creator hit last summer, there was about a week in which the Internet was completely overrun by a host of bizarre aliens -- most of them with a strong resemblance to a certain set of genitalia. Subject matter aside though, it was quite popular, and it seems that Maxis was taking notes. Spore's first expansion, titled Galactic Adventures, builds heavily on the game's design mechanics by fleshing out the space stage and dropping in a powerful adventure creator. All of a sudden, the Spore universe seems a lot bigger.
The 2009 GameStooge Awards continue with the fourth part of the Awards – the Technical category that covers expansions, digital games, and the surprise games of 2009.
Winners:
Best Expansion: Fallout 3: Broken Steel
Best Digital Game (Original): Plants Vs. Zombies
Best Digital Game (Adaptation): Trials HD
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3: ODST
Best Game You Didn't Play: Dead Space Extraction
Best Surprise: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Stardock has released Impulse's Top 10 Sellers list for the week ending on January 9.
GP writes: "The sheer scale of Will Wright's vision for Spore was praiseworthy, even if the final product occasionally felt pinched and clipped.
In brief, Spore zoomed out from the microscopic to the telescopic in five phases as players evolved and nurtured a single celled organism representing a species into a space captain representing a galactic empire. Unfortunately, the first four phases played like a rambling prologue to the final galactic phase. But what it lacked in aspects of game-play it made up for in charm and creativity."
