Darkspore
Darkspore was a video game that borrowed creature editing technology from Spore. It was described as "a fast-paced, science fiction action-role-playing game in which the player battled across alien worlds to…
Darkspore is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Maxis, released 26 April 2011 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Darkspore is
Darkspore is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Maxis and released in 2011. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Crogenitors were a race of scientists that established a massive empire encompassing an entire galaxy. Many of them performed secret experiments on the populations they oversaw. Being masters of genetic manipulation, they used their knowledge to create a personal army of genetic heroes, called Living Weapons. However, the discovery of an experimental amino acid that bonds to DNA changes everything. Capable of achieving a millennium in terms of evolution in a matter of hours, it has an immense potential to manipulate life to levels never achieved before. Unfortunately, E-DNA proves to be unstable. All of the test subjects who came in contact with it were transformed into uncontrollable…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Darkspore holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Darkspore launched on 26 April 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire and Terraria. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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