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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.
This game sounds a hell of a lot like E.V.O:The quest for eden for the SNES (or something like that). Basically you start out as a fish, eat other fish to get evo points, then get evolutionary things like fins and teeth and stuff. The game got very loopy at the end, but it sounds like a VERY similar premise.
-Dizzle
"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
You are without question right. If they want thier children to growup clueless and unpreparded for college, that's thier choice.
And it is OUR chioce to mock them relentlessly for being such asshats. As for the post,it obviously ISN'T a troll because lots of people here find it funny to mock them. (hint: it's because they are dumb)
I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.
Spore has nothing to do with evolution. Gameplay seems more like Intelligent Design, with the player in the role of God.
I'm sorry, but the state's (and in some cases the nation's) tax dollars fund public high school education. So concerned citizens have a right to question the ignorance of Kansas' school board. The U.S. as a nation needs to prepare its citizens to be able to compete in a global economy. Biology, especially in the field biotechnology, will be a huge driving force in the economy in the coming years. Is it the right of a community to perpetuate scientific illiteracy? Not in my opinion. We should prepare our students in a variety of subjects like English, math, and science. Biology is a science. Evolution is THE major theory of biology. Thus, biolgoy classes in high school should be teaching evolution. No serious college or university is going to be teaching "intelligent design" in a biology class. Should we teach astrology instead of astronomy? Numerology instead of mathematics? Intelligent design instead of evolution?
Of course! There should be plenty of room for discussion about alternative beliefs and opinions. But if we're going to teach our students science, in a science classroom, in a public school, to prepare them for science at an accredited college/university, then we MUST teach them SCIENCE. Not astrology; not mythology; and not "intelligent design". Why? Because none of these concepts have survived the scientific process. If you want to teach our kids about intelligent design in Sunday school or philosophy class, be my guest. But in biology (and in almost all of science), there is no more important and supported theory than the theory of evolution.