Spore is an EA game launching September 12th. Check it out here. Basically it is a massive single player online game. I am not 100% sure what that means but my educated guess would be that you will not be interacting with live players but their inventions and creations. That is to say it will still be a game that credits the sharing of things with keeping it interesting. Better than all that is the mere premise. Get this, you start as a single cell life form and have to survive and thrive. The game progresses as your life form evolves and surpasses other life forms on your planet in intelligence..... or I guess strength, numbers or a myriad of other variables. Cool right? It gets better. It doesn't stop the action once you become the dominant creature on your little island, pissing you off and making players wonder why they invested so much time and emotion into it like Civilization 1 through 3. You get to take over your whole planet. Then, when you have conquered all there is to conquer there, you evolve enough to take to space and find other planets to take over! WICKED! We have finally created a game that makes some philosophers very nervous I would imagine. Who's game are we? More importantly, are we winning?
Their Creature Creator program demo was made available today and is worth an install. (video demo here) You get to create a life form in a sort of Sims way but a lot more intricate. More like the Eve-Online character creator but in a mature cartoon animation style. It is a lot of fun and below are a few creatures I have already created. You get to check out how they function as often as you like so you can see how each change effects certain attributes in the creatures movement. This is of course just the basic demo and you can see how many empty slots there are for all sorts of fun selections in the full version. There were something like 55,000 creatures uploaded today to Spore's servers. That's a good sign. So if you ever had the desire to rule the universe with your very own army of mutant insect space monkeys, now is maybe your very first time to do so. I would guess it will not be your last however. What are you waiting for? Go play God. I got my beard growing in as we speak.
is it me or does one of your creatures look like Jer?
Posted by: sam | June 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
this game is going to be so ausome
Posted by: Strenght | November 29, 2008 at 11:51 PM