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Spore Hands-On Preview

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the frothing-at-the-mouth dept.

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."

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  1. One thing is for sure. by AltGrendel · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will make VG Cats happy.

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    The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination

    - Douglas Adams

  2. I can't wait... by Darundal · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:I can't wait... by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      I shall create an entire race of Weighted Companion Cubes!

  3. I care only about one thing: by AndGodSed · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity

  4. Re:High Hopes by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

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    Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
  5. Spore's hidden sixth stage by StefanJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:High Hopes by Amorymeltzer · · Score: 5, Funny
    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."
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    I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.