Spore Hands-On Preview

cardjoe writes "The release date for Spore has just been announced and what better way to celebrate than to check out the latest build of the game? That's just what bit-tech.net did, spending hours with the full version of the game. The article covers all the different editors and stages in the game as well as providing a brief on the pollinated content and how it may well introduce an entire new genre to PC gaming — that of the Massively Online Singleplayer. The article is in-depth and has a whole load of brand new screenshots too, showing the various stages that the player will go through as they play the game and move their creature from single cells to galaxy-hopping space freaks."

One thing is for sure.

[AltGrendel]

This will make VG Cats [vgcats.com] happy.

I can't wait...

[Darundal]

...until I have created a race of suicidal paper clips, and have them wage war on all the fruit-producing fauna in the universe.

Or...

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe its Massively Singleplayer Online

Re:I can't wait...

[mouko]

Too bad my race of fire-breathing red staplers will kill your paper clips when they aren't looking. All is fair in love and cube warfare.

I care only about one thing:

[AndGodSed]

Can I make my spore avoid the whole Microsoft debacle during their evolution?

Re:High Hopes

[Captain Splendid]

The thing that fascinates me the most is that the progression through the game's stages seems in some ways to mirror the evolution of video games themselves, from simple Atari games to the modern day. Or to look at it another way, the idea of having an arc throughout the game in both the objectives and the style of gameplay itself sounds amazing.

You could have saved yourself some typing by just saying "Spore is so Meta!"

Re:One thing is for sure.

[alexgieg]

Don't forget Spore's team version [vgcats.com] using in-game graphics.

Spore's hidden sixth stage

[StefanJ]

After your race has risen from the primordial slime, competed with other critters, evolved to sapience, built cities, and achieved spaceflight and reached the center of the galaxy, you can submit proof of age and $45 to receive a key to open up a new level . . .

SimGalaxy Interspecies Brothel

Just remember . . . one race's intimate lubricant could be another's caustic death sauce.

Re:It's fine that the source is closed, for them..

[wampus]

And I'm sure the folks at EA will just LOVE supporting every permutation of every Linux distribution out there or listening to the loud BAWWWWWW noise when they only support 3 major distros.

Re:I can't wait...

[Eli Gottlieb]

You fail to understand the breadth, depth and scope of our new creative power.

I shall create an entire race of Weighted Companion Cubes!

Re:High Hopes

[Amorymeltzer]

Reminds me of that Mitch Hedberg quote:

My friend said to me, he said "I think the weather is trippy" and I said "No man, it's not the weather that's trippy. Perhaps it is the way we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought man, I should have just said "Yeah."

Re:Or...

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's sort of like as if instead of..."

  and such as?

Re:I can't wait...

[Vectronic]

Don't forget the Toasters... with wings...

Re:High Hopes

[ectal]

What can I say? Sometimes, I just like to hear myself type.

Re:With creatures like these...

[RealGrouchy]

After acquiring a spaceship, I fully plan on plotting a course to the black hole's event horizon. I wonder how the game will model that experience...

You can do that with the demo on their website.

After installing the demo, turn off your monitor.

- RG>

Re:Evolve me this.

[cptnapalm]

I think they tried, but all they could come up with was vapor.

Re:Evolve me this.

[dangitman]

Ahh, so it was powered by Steam?