TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone

In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. that is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright’s sure-to-be masterpiece.

Like the EA Mobile space, Spore Origins is pretty simple and clean, and stands out as a fairly calm experience among the racket of a lot of other iPhone games. Spore takes you through

a civilization from ameoba to space travel, but Spore Origins sticks with just the ameoba stage. You play a creature of your own creation and drift through the microbial ether, eating things that are smaller than you, and running away from things that are larger.

Read on for TUAW’s impressions of one of the most anticipated iPhone games, and why it might not be all we had hoped.

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[Source] Mike Schramm