Spore? What ?!?!? (Will Wright Game)

[bryan_05]

This game looks amazing.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/617/617441p1.html

[tripwire]

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I'll have to keep an eye out for that game, it looks awesome.

Thanks for the link

[Flawless]

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I came across the presentation from last years GDC again today. It was never posted on here, and not sure if anybody has seen it on OS, but Spore looks like it will be the best game ever created.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore

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[jmood88]

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I remember looking it up awhile ago but I don't think I saw the video. Thanks.

[Flawless]

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New Spore preview

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3150390

[Hooe]

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I just watched the video posted earlier in the thread. HOLY COW.

Yet another must-have title, haha.

[Flawless]

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Some new pre-E3 footage of Spore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHaulHxmO4A

[burnwood]

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I'm trying hard to see what you see guys but this looks incredibly boring to me.

[The GIGGAS]

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What is this game about? I'm all for Will Wright, but this game looks confusing.

[Rodster]

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What is this game about? I'm all for Will Wright, but this game looks confusing.

You're not the only one.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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good lord that game looks wack. talk about snoozefest.

[HealyMonster]

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i havent seen too much on the game, i mean some videos etc. im just confused as to where everyone is saying itll be the best video game made to date.....what makes it so special?

[luv_mist]

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The possibilities are endless in this game. Just to have such a wide open-end to it like never before seen. I like how it's looking. It's a kind of evolution type of basis where you make a creature and watch it advance I think into something else. You can take over other worlds and stuff if your creature advances to a stage that he has great technology and stuff like that. Amazing on the real. I won't say it's a must-have but I will say that the video looked pretty hot. It'll most likely wind up in my collection of games waiting to get played through fully one of these years.......

[Hooe]

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What is this game about? I'm all for Will Wright, but this game looks confusing.

Basically, you are creating your own universe from scratch. You start at the cellular stage with your little creature or whatever, evolve him until he's a multi-cell guy, then evolve him until he's intelligent, then develop a civilization with the creatures you evolved, all the while during this exploring and investigating other creatures who are going through the same process. The game also appears to interact with other players playing the game via some sort of online capability and you can interact with their creatures.

Just looking at the videos, the game is completely open-ended and huge in scale; you won't ever play the same way or have the same result twice, and you go from being a single-celled organism to exploring the galaxy.

[mudtiger]

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From the ign article in first post

After terraforming planets in the Tripod home system, Will zoomed the camera out even farther to a view that showed a ton of stars. Each of these stars is an actual system that can be traveled to in the UFO. Answering the question of "is there other life out there?" is easy enough with the radio telescope. Putting the cursor over the other planets will give a radio transition of the area. Get a signal and you'll know it's inhabited. After finding a planet with a signal, Will zoomed down to that system and went looking for the civilization living there (there was only one planet so this was easy).

After finding the city with very crystalline buildings, Will attempted to make contact via a musical language bit ala Close Encounters of the Third Kind. These guys (someone else's creatures) fired on the UFO. Will then shot back from the UFO in a small action sequence. After realizing his regular weapons weren't doing much damage, he backed out into an orbital view. From there he blew up the planet with a super weapon. Thousands of voices cried out at once... and then were silent. The resulting debris made an asteroid field that circled the sun. Will traveled off to other planets.

This is the kind of thing that Will is most excited about. It adds the feel of a massively multiplayer experience without the worry of screwing up someone else's game when you blow up their planet or having someone else blow up your planet.

Finally, Will pushed back the view one last time showing off the last level of scale that pushed us over that final edge and forced us to ask the question, "Is this guy freaking crazy?" The answer is probably yes. That final view showed that the tons of planets in the Interstellar game were actually just a very small fraction of a gigantic galaxy where every star you see holds a potential enemy, ally, or colony.

If that doesn't get the little kid gamer inside of you all jumpy and excited, I dont' know what will.

The multiplayer bit is that your created creatures get uploaded to a server where other people's games can automatically download them and fill the planets and galaxy with life.