It began as a cell, that interestingly, already had eyes. You know, fully formed mammalian eyes. It came from outer space, brought to my planet, Cakeulon-74 by an icy meteor. It was carnivorous, and quickly rose in the food chain and proliferated.
Throughout my creature's evolution, it simply destroyed everything that it didn't like. As a semi-intelligent creature, it made a few attempts at forming relationships with other animals, but most of them were failures. Thus, I decided that my race need not suck up to other animals in order to survive in the world. I gave them large skulls and sharp teeth, as well as long bladed claws. I took their social features away and turned them into killing machines. From then on, they went on a path of destruction, driving eight viable species to extinction.
After denying each species' any form of genetic heritage, my own species evolved to become faster and deadlier, and even more intelligent. Soon, they developed a primitive language and formed simple hunter-gatherer settlements. At this phase of their history, they were simply able to articulate their violent message in a more sophisticated form, with spears and fire.
Soon enough, my species became the dominant sentient life-form on the planet. They constructed cities from reinforced minerals and aggressively advanced to become a militaristic civilisation. History repeated itself, only this time with nuclear weapons.
That was pretty cool, nuking those rival cities. Especially the religious ones.
So then I sat back and admired my creation, what amazing and destructive creatures they had become. Who knows what else they will do, now that they have unlocked the secret of intergalactic travel? (I do. Kill more stuff.)
Spore is now the king of Sandboxes. Nothing is more fun than flying a spaceship around, abducting people and plants. And then bringing them to an uninhabitable planet and releasing them. I spent about an hour doing that, just to see if they would freeze, fry, or explode because of decompression.
If you aren't so keen on that, you can just fry them with your laser. It's awesome.
I have yet to unlock most of the intergalactic functions, so I don't know how much more there is in store for me. I'll probably find more user-generated content and decimate them, though. So, it's a great god game.
However, I do wish that they had randomised the colour of blood, among certain other things. It seems like every creature in the universe has red blood. Why would every creature in the universe use haemoglobin as an oxygen transporter? Even on Earth, there are creatures that have blue blood, such as horseshoe crabs. Also, sexual dimorphism seems to be impossible in this world. That kinda took something out for me, because I was anticipating something a bit more lifelike.
Also why no larvae? I wanted to make a race of intelligent insects, with exoskeletons and all. However, there's just no way to do that. My little baby insects would look exactly like the adult insects. Maybe in the next version...
Anyway, it's time to explore the universe. Gotta go!
-Joe