From here, you can finally do what we've all wanted the whole time: explore the vast reaches of space, make new discoveries, forge new stories as galactic explorers. Completing the civilization stage finally allows you to begin the space-faring stage of the game. Nonetheless, the awesome creation tool still exists during this time and allows you to create structures, vehicles, and even a national anthem with some simple music notes. Both of these stages had some potential, but felt rather flat and uninteresting. Uniting the tribes then leads to the civilization stage of the game, which is basically another version of the same strategy game you were just playing.
Your goal then becomes uniting the various tribes of your species under one nation. Eventually, after your creature has reached a certain level of intelligence, it evolves to a tribal state, where the gameplay changes from a third-person action game to a real-time strategy game. There's a collection of mouths, limbs, eyes, etc on your planet to find and utilize. As you explore your home planet and encounter other wild creations, which also happen to be creatures made by other players, you can collect different body parts to further customize your creation. It was simple and kind of fun to manipulate and change the shape and complexity of a creature. This is the real meat of the game as you can spend hours customizing your creation with one of the best creation tools ever made for a video game.
Once on land, the creature creator you can use to customize and manipulate your creature becomes more advanced. Depending on your evolutionary path as a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore, you get various bonuses when you evolve. Eventually, after consuming enough sustenance and spending enough time in the primordial soup, you evolve to a land animal and the camera pulls back to a full three-dimensional view. It plays like Pac-Man without any boundaries or much momentum, so it's a bit slow and tedious. In Spore, you start out as a single-celled organism simply trying to survive by eating whatever you can. Spore was supposed to be the next evolutionary step for the company, by providing players with a massive universe to explore and fill with their own creations. Spore was also the last video game project of Maxis founder, Will Wright, who had established a reputation of designing and directing great toy-box experiences for players. Spore, for those who might not remember, was a game developed by Maxis (RIP), the development team behind huge successes like SimCity and The Sims.
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