Darkspore Beta Review

I think it’s pretty unfair for any website to pass judgment on a game that’s still in beta testing, but that hasn’t stopped Final Level from handing Darkspore a score of 6/10 in this brief review.

Levels are sectioned into stages and you can take up to three heroes of your choice in to battle with you, each hero is of a particular class; Necro, Bio, Quantum, Plasma and Cyber so choosing a group that is varied and also strong against the enemies situated on that level is a good idea, each character also has unique abilities depending on what class it is, one Bio hero may have offensive abilities whilst another may focus more on healing. Progression to higher levels can only be accessed once each level already available has been complete, with the exception that when a level is completed you may get the chance to gamble the items won from the level just complete by continuing straight on to another level with considerable higher level enemies; the levels will be harder but the rewards are greater. Each level looks great and from first impressions the maps don’t seem to look too repetitive, with my first level taking my characters into what looked like the depths of space and then onto a mountainous world covered by forests; the worlds seem do vary at this point however I have my doubts as to if they’ll keep looking unique as the game progresses.

“I have my doubts”? Maybe this guy should have waited until the game was released so he could test the validity of those doubts?