I must disagree with you there. I personally think it's a horrible, overrated game that got more hype than it deserved. I'm surprised it's so popular.
I agree with you to a degree. SPORE is a good game and concept, and I greatly enjoy the Creature Creator, it's so much fun! However SPORE was not released the way they advertised it and hyped about. All you do is go through three options the entire way through. Make Peace[eat ur veggies], destroy [OM NOM NOM], or mix it up [cookie monster]. That is very boring. Not to mention the expansion packs, very over-priced for what you are getting, if not you should have gotten for free with the game to begin with...
**** They killed Science SPORE, which was what I and, I believe, many other people were waiting for. We still want it!