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Spore Hero Reviews
EA’s new Wii spin-off of the franchise, Spore Hero, has a decidedly scaled-back scope. Instead of melding several different genres into a galaxy-wide journey to the top of the food chain, Spore Hero sticks to a single planet and the well-tested 3D platforming and questing normally found in Mario or Zelda games.
There’s something undeniably impressive going on at the heart of Spore Hero; some kind of alien technology that means if you stick a third leg on the creature you create and put its eyes on its belly, it will walk around looking as pitiful as it sounds.
The first thing we did was give it a mouth so it didn’t starve to death. See how the sorry thing uses its bellyeyes to look for food. Horrible. And when we put a pair of useless flappy hands at the end of giant spindly arms coming out of its arse, it used those to pick up the oranges and berries it stuffed into its lamprey’s maw.
It’s been just over a year since Sporewas released for PC and Mac; now the ultimate creature creation game is out for the Wii. But Spore Hero isn’t a carbon copy of the original – instead it’s been retooled to appeal to the Wii’s more casual audience. This means cuter DIY beasts, a platform approach to action and simplified combat – all of which make this feel like a kiddy-friendly, Spore-lite. While it’s nice to broaden the reach of the Spore universe, it’s a shame that Will Wright’s vision has been made more anodyne.
There’s something undeniably impressive going on at the heart of Spore Hero; some kind of alien technology that means if you stick a third leg on the creature you create and put its eyes on its belly, it will walk around looking as pitiful as it sounds. The first thing we did was give it a mouth so it didn’t starve to death. See how the sorry thing uses its bellyeyes to look for food. Horrible. And when we put a pair of useless flappy hands at the end of giant spindly arms coming out of its arse, it used those to pick up the oranges and berries it stuffed into its lamprey’s maw.
Spore Hero is a Wii-exclusive spin-off of last year’s innovative PC game Spore, taking that game’s complexities and refining them with the Wii in mind. The result is a fun and accessible creature adventure that rewards creativity.
Spore Hero feels like it was inspired by the design in last year’s Spore Creatures because its theme is very, very similar: instead of creating a race of creatures as in the original Spore design, you’re one creature in a foreign world, forced to evolve in order to complete tasks and quests. And in this case, you’re an alien critter that’s crash-landed on a planet filled with Spore tribes, set out to right the wrongs after your arch nemesis also landed on the planet. Your enemy brought with him red rocks that are poisoning the native inhabitants with pure evil, and you’ll have to search out these shards and destroy them to bring balance to the world.
Spore Hero Soundtrack Reviews
Opening with “Spore Hero Main Theme”, the mood is set with a playful, inquisitive but fully fleshed piece which is instantly listenable and ever evolving whilst not really having a big hook to keep you held. It’s the comical bumbling bass line that does it for me. “Home World” is rich with strings and tuned percussion. The way how it sways from warmth to potential troubled waters and then back again.
Phillips’ music has always done a wonderful job of matching the vibe of a game whether the character is walking carefree through lush fields of vegetation or dealing a decisive blow to the final boss. With a game such as Spore Heroand the audience it caters to, you would imagine the soundtrack would consist of quirky or blatantly jolly songs, butSpore Hero’s soundtrack totally outdoes those expectations. The entire soundtrack is orchestral in nature and drips of complexity and style. It’s entirely possible to view Spore Hero’s music as that of a feature animated film and not that of a video game.
The Spore Hero soundtrack is a surprisingly broad selection of differently-styled pieces, all maintaining the science-fiction theme of the Spore franchise and the jauntiness of the Wii. While the tracks are better when accompanying the specific play portions they were designed for, they range from the aggressive and staccato “Monster Mayhem,” to “Spore War” with its aggressive rock edge, to the more languid “Haven” and “SporeZone.”
The theme that everyone should be familiar with – it’s the title theme you’ll hear during the game’s opening sequence! The tune isn’t meant to be an attention grabber, it stays calm with a nice drum beat and (like I mentioned above, not a musical expert) what I believe to be a flute or clarinet… It does its job which is to fill the background with peaceful music until you select the appropriate choices in the game.
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Looks like EA is just re-packaging the creature creator and creature phase on different platforms. It’d be nice if they got back to fixing Spore on the PC.