Yeah, I’ve been playing Spore a bit, in between work and the WAR beta with the girlfriend. I’ll reserve a full blown review for when I’ve had more time with it, but so far I think I agree with the consensus that the game is more than the sum of its parts. Each stage, taken individually, is really nothing to write home about. But once you start to take all of the stages in as a whole product, that’s when it starts to resemble the super-hyped Sim game we were all expecting.