Crispy Gamer: Spore Creatures Review

Spore Creatures achieves, in a smaller fashion, the same vainglorious goals of Spore. It's meant to encourage the player to wrap their head around the problems of natural selection -- to give them a taste of the way science explains the world, and let them have some fun futzing around with a broad approximation of the insanely complex systems that allowed a single-cell organism to eventually beget a civilization of hairless apes.

That's a pretty tall order, and maybe it's forgivable that Spore Creatures is merely a passable portable diversion. Sometimes highfalutin goals and ideals have to take a back seat to survival.