Spore Creatures

Spore Creatures, as the name makes clear, focuses entirely on the PC version's "creature phase" -- in which you create a primitive creature from scratch (or, if you're lame, use one of the premade ones), and watch how it evolves and survives.

Pocket monsters? It'll never catch on...

Genetically codified.

The evolution will not be televised.

"To start the game, you and a few friends hatch in the ocean and swim to shore. The game's graphics are very Phantom Hourglass-esque; presumably, EA and Nintendo came to a similar conclusion about how to make a good-looking game on the DS. "