I admit it... I'm a spore junkie LOL. I'm still in the creature stage, and at this point, I would call the game very arcade like. There isn't a lot of strategy that I've seen, though there is a fair amount of hints in the manual about how all decisions now impact you later on. We shall see.

So far I've run into a couple of the creatures I created with the Creature Creator in my world. It was a shock to watch as one of my own creations had me for lunch. I even ran into one of the creatures that my daughter had created.

My first official creature: RedEye (he used to be red)