Spore

Spore

The latest instalment from the brain of Will Wright, the man behind the biggest selling computer game franchise of all time – is a single-player online game in which you develop a creature from its origins as a tiny cellular organism into a fully formed animal with limbs, markings and characteristics as you please, and adapt it to live and thrive on your planet. So essentially, it’s The Sims but you make an animal instead of people, and don’t spend the first three hours of gameplay buying furniture.

Spore should entertain any fans of simulation games, strategy games or even role-playing games, due to the extent to which you can customize your character. Alternatively, it might appeal to anyone seeking a way to kill the hours before Warhammer Online and Wrath of the Lich King come out later this year.

Ria Farrell