Spore. Changing game experience forever?

Spore was around for I think four years now. Never took much interest in it but every time I heard something about it there was this feeling that Spore will change gaming experience when it will come out.

Well, it will come out soon and let me tell you: it will knock your socks off. But let us start from the beginning. What is Spore? To quote wikipedia on Spore: “Spore is a multi-genre “massively single-player online game” under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a

 species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social land-walking creature, to levels of interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture.” So basically it is a world simulator. You start from single cell and end up with spaceships.

But where is the groundbreaking change? Well, to give you a taste of what will be happening in few months Spore developers released a free Spore Creature Creator. It is a lovely tool that will be included in the original game and it allows you to create creatures. It shows how fun, easy and powerful is this groundbreaking engine. It allows you to create all kinds of creatures, test how they behave and basically play with all the goodness there.

Will Spore be groundbreaking? Time will tell. In the meanwhile I am having a blast with the editor and that’s where I’m heading over right now. More news on Spore and Creature Creator first thing next week. 

I will leave you with this - a short interview with Spore’s creator showing what his game is all about. It is definitely worth watching.