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Spore Hands-On Impressions
Spore is being kept locked down on the show floor, available for preview only to members of the "Best in Show" committee, but there is still some information available for the rest of us. The official Spore site is now available for your examination, including an option to sign up for a newsletter. For hands on impressions, we turn to Gamespot and Gamespy. From the Gamespy article: "The game opens within the primordial soup, which absolutely teemed with blobs and squiggles of prehistoric life. As your creature evolved into a 3D environment and swam around in the sea, the water swarmed with life: plants, bubbles, little microorganisms. That same detail carried out once your critter walked out onto the land, where tiny insects buzzed around. Outer space was cluttered with comets, meteorites, gas clouds, and all sorts of interstellar phenomenon. Visually the game is a treat, not from state-of-the-art graphics but simply from a standpoint of detail and variety." Update: 05/20 15:43 GMT by Z : Wired has an interview with Wright at the expo on the game and what it means for gaming in general.
You know I'm really sick of the trolls on this. I live in Kansas myself. If a community wants to decide to teach their children a different thing, that's their bloody business. I may not agree with it, but it is the right of the board and those elected by the people of the school districts and other places in question to set educational standards. There's a reason that the Federal government allows local governments to control those standards to a certain extent...
If they want to believe Monkeys didn't turn into Humans, that's fine. I don't believe it either.
But, nor do I believe their fantastical mythic religious explanations.