The Elder Scroll games. Take Fallout 3 for example. The tutorial is also a character creation and part of the story. You start in the Vault and the first question is Boy or Girl. You then proceed to learn all the other controls and create your full character. That's for ...
Oblivion was a good example of an effective tutorial. So was Fallout 3 but then it's from the same company. EVE Online is another interesting example of a decent tutorial. The learning curve of EVE is more like a cliff and the series of tutorials do help but they are ...
Get your Nike shoes and shove them where the sun doesn't shine. Then you can return to your Troll Hole and spread your spam all over the floor where it belongs.
Spore: not a real sandbox as you notice that every time you play the same events happen at the exact same spot. ie. the meteor shower in creature stage, UFO flying over, the offered missions in space stage, etc.. The only sandbox aspect in Spore are the editors for creatures, ...
