9 hours of playing straight, got to the Space Stage, played it for about an hour and so far its not very good. Its like an mmo, you go around doing stupid missions for super intelligent alien race that are to lazy to do it themselves. However my path was POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU but the Aggressive and the neutral ways might be a different story. As for any type of vehicles you can only have 1 of each type, like 1 sea vehicle and 1 Air Vehicle, I was a bit depressed about this. But once again I was only able to build Jesus Mobiles and I didn't make a Military city. The controls are just plain weird, I've gotten used to them but the camera view tends to be in bad angles once you pass the tribe stage. The space ship view is like an RTS now, before Spore was released it was like a FPS and looked much easier to use but now you can't tell if you're going to run your ship into every thing. The Creature Creator is completely useless now (I didn't buy it anyway) because in the main menu you have editors for vehicles/buildings/creatures. Another thing I'd like to mention is that the creator of Spore said himself he wasn't going to make it like a single story game but he did just that with spore, my friend got it with me today as well and he was like 30 mins behind me having the exactly the same events (Meteor Shower and UFO stealing creatures) as me but just different creatures/spaceships. Space stage is quite annoying, you get a crap load of money but turns out it isn't even that much at all, you use it on like 2 new features for your Space Ship then you only get money from the missions you do, so you've turned your planet from idiots to Space freaks and all they give you is free recharges/repairs... BASTARDS.
Just a warning, the game can be quite repetitive, you end up doing the same attack when taking over your planet on each city (Because there is only ONE way to do it) and there's like 9 city's to take over, past the tribe stage there is no other intelligent race then your own on your planet. Also a BIG IMPORTANT thing you really need to know, when going into the tribe stage its the last chance you get to modify your character, me and my friend didn't know this so our guys where bloody dinosaurs with spears.
Overall its a bloody good game and I still yet to get further though the space stage, I just wish they kept some of the original content that would of made the game even better. (Like the underwater stage and 3rd Person view on the Space ship)
