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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."
This game is only being released to run on closed source, propietary operating systems, so I for one am not interested. Not only that, but the game itself is closed source. If they had written it for Linux, and made the code open source, it would not only be more secure and elegant, but it would probably be more efficient too. When will developers learn? OH well, their loss.
10 years to design a roll-up of other popular game genre's?
Sounds like Sims for the Facebook crowd. How cute.
How can this be when evolution is merely a random unguided biological process that makes the idea of God unnecessary, irrelevant, and archaic?
I hate to toot the creationist's horn here, but as an agnostic, I'm forced to point out that you really have no idea how random and unguided it is. You just have faith that it's random and unguided. Which really makes you no better than them.
This is going to be a colossal failure of epic proportions. Besides, "tribal stage" of the evolution of a species? That's like saying blacks in Africa are DNA inferior.