Freaking Spore man.
They could have made it a great game of evolution, where the length of legs would affect speed, where having multiple sets of arms would have made a difference, where you would actually have realistic relations with other species....
But no, apparently that's not what they wanted, so they boiled everything down into how many "bite" points and "sing" points your mouth object gave you, and the "spit" value of the various spit objects. And made it so that, instead of realistically hunting for food, you render entire species extinct because you had the munchies.
It had so much potential, and they blew it. Don't even get me started on the parts of the game after the creature stage.
To be fair the space stage was kinda fun once you stopped caring about ecological collapses and started genociding entire species on a whim.
Dragon Age Origins: Everything about being a mage is awesome except for one thing: the default attack animation SUCKS. It looks like I'm poking the enemy.
Dragon Age 2, for all it's faults, fixed that.