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."

Comments

High Hopes

[ectal]

Everything I read about this game makes it seem like this is either going to be the greatest game ever released or the most disappointing.

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.

Hang on- I think I played this before!

[VValdo]

Wasn't this game around more than twenty-five years ago? I mean, I remember clearly that you'd--

Oh, wait... I guess there were some minor differences.

Whoops.

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