Unfortunately though, Galactic Adventures fails honkingly on every level. The manual claims you’ll encounter player-made missions in the Space phase, but this never happened to us. Every one of the dozens we played were Maxis-made. These missions are few, short and bad. Player-made adventures are confined to the Sporepedia browser – which is still malfunctioning, awkward and slow. Thousands of missions have been made at the time of writing, but even the most popular are glitchy, ugly and dull.

You’ll love

  • Creating missions is almost fun
  • Some good missions will be made eventually
  • Gives Spore-addicts more to do

You’ll hate

  • New missions are short and bad
  • Mission creation cripples creativity
  • Exorbitant cost for nothing worthy of play

I can’t believe this, but GamesRadar gave Spore Galactic Adventures a score of 4 (flawed). Care to continue reading their other complaints? Click here.