Spore Origins out for iPod, iPhone version due this week

Spore Origins has wriggled its way out to the iTunes store for the iPod. The game is a slimmed-down version of the early microbial stages in the upcoming PC game -- in the main game, you'll be able to take your little microbes up through the evolutionary ladder all the way up to space travel, but in the iPod game, you just guide a little cellular organism around in the primordial muck, eating what's smaller than you and running away from what's bigger.

We haven't played the iPod version, but the iPhone version, which we got a hands-on with at E3 earlier this year, is due out later this week, according to the game's creator, Will Wright. Both games pale in comparison to the creativity and polish that the full Spore game will offer -- running a creature around in the muck isn't nearly as fun as guiding it through the history of time itself, and unfortunately, as we were told at E3, online play and character transfer never made it into the final version, so the portable games have no relation to the full game at all.

So what you're left with is a little arcade game, which probably isn't actually worth the $5 it costs. There are, after all, better games out there for less.

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bryon brock

Here is another hands on review of Spore Origins for the iPhone http://www.iphone-hacks.com/2008/09/09/spore-origins-for-the-iphone-reviewed/

September 09 2008 at 7:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rylin

Been playing Spore for somewhere around twelve hours now.
It's absolutely brilliant.
Galactic stage is by far the most challenging one though :(

September 04 2008 at 11:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OWRC

Loser

September 04 2008 at 8:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Trevisol

Let me give you a little advice. Don't start that "First" crap here at TUAW. It's a hollow victory. Relatively few people actually comment here.

And your comments above are absolutely useless and irrelevant to the article. Observe, this is how you actually make a comment that doesn't annoy:

I find it interesting that this game has so many versions. If you're the kind of person who really goes in for this sort of game, you'll probably end up buying at least 3 versions of it. It's genius really, they're getting $5 out of all those hotly anticipating Spore now, then probably $10 out of iphone users later, and then the full, what, $25? $30? when the full version comes out.

Genius marketing, but only if the game is worth playing. It's definitely not my thing, but I can see how some would get a kick out of it.

September 04 2008 at 8:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tom W Browning

You get the price of Creature Creator off the price of the full version if you purchase both. Unsure if the same will work for the iPhone version.

September 04 2008 at 9:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joe Lamb

If this game is as uninteresting as you make out, why was it worth blogging about?

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tushas

sorry but my name is TUSHAR

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