Each part of the body has its own unique characteristics and skills, allowing coming into contact with representatives of other species, or attacking and subjugating them.
You also may create the appearance each element of your creature - legs, hands, even tail and eyes - can be moved and changed. You can choose absolutely everything: your hero will be herbivorous and friendly or will eat meat and fight with other tribes.
In “Spore”, you create your own creature almost from scratch, developing it from a tiny unicellular to a highly intelligent member of a developed space colony.