![]() ![]() Once you’d scoffed down enough genetic material (ahem) you’re taken to the creature creation system where you can customise your species. Of course, being at the bottom of the food chain means there are plenty of bigger fish looking to add to their own DNA, so you need to be pretty quick on your flippers to avoid becoming part of another creature’s double helix. Being as nature is such a harsh mistress, the only way to do that is to eat and absorb new DNA, so your primary task is to swim around gobbling up smaller life forms than yourself. The primordial soup into which you’re born is teeming with basic life that wants to find a way to grow beyond its bounds. The game casts you as a micro-organism at the bottom of the genetic chain. Now we’ve seen the previous games develop into the desktop title and expand to encompass entire galaxies, going back to the simple antics of protozoa feels like a real step backwards. ![]() The mobile, iPod and iPhone versions of the revolutionary EA game went down very well, though I’m now left wondering if the quality of their rung on the game’s evolutionary ladder wasn’t entirely dependent on timing.Īfter all, amoeba would be pretty impressive if there were no other life forms on the planet that could boast ownership of their own cells. But all social commentary aside, the fact that Spore Origins has finally appeared on the N-Gage platform further bolsters the idea that evolution is not a one-way street. So I wonder if it also follows that if you believe in the theory of evolution, you must also believe in the possibility of devolution?Ī quick glance around modern society does indeed suggest that nature can also move backwards as well as forwards. It’s said that if you believe in God, you must also believe in the Devil. ![]()
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