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Spore Games For Wii and DS, PC Expansions Due In 2009
Supa writes "EA UK has confirmed new Spore games for the Wii, DS and PC, as well as four more Spore expansion packs. From the article: 'Spore fans are finally getting that Wii version of Spore in Spore: Hero. Another new game tie-in will be Spore: Hero Arena for DS, a standalone Spore: Creature Keeper (PC), and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
Kotaku has a more in-depth look at the details of the first expansion, saying, "As with most of what comes from developer Maxis, there's a lot of stuff to soak up whenever they make something new. Adventures is way more than just slapped-on content or a single new feature; you really have to play it to even get a feel of just how much is going on."
Can you please go back to making quality software toys? Perhaps you need to adopt a pseudonym to publish under so that EA can't claim your soul.
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"...and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
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Penis Creatures running on a Wii. It's perfect.
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And this time, the game box will be accompained by a thug that will follow you to your home and will punch anyone who looks like they're thinking about copying it.
And you'll have to feed the thug.
Go to Bob in less than 25 sectrons
Bob has 3 different things he can say, you can pick 1 of 3 responses to correctly correspond to what he says like the game Simon
Bob gives you item
Take item to Sally
Sally takes item, but only if you a dance combo consisting of 3 different possible dances. Also it must be what she asks for
Sally gives you 5 yellow spice, use it to trade for some blue spice by taking the yellow spice to Amy
You already have blue spice in your inventory. Sally gives you 100,000 spore bucks for it
Finally you must kill some turrets from the pen15 civilization in 45 sectrons. Before you can react though, 7 of your planets are at war and 2 ecodisasters are starting!
Sounds like the very definition of "shovelware" to me.
I agree. I actually defended Spore here on Slashdot when it was the Great DRM Debate, I thought it was fun. But I got really fed up with it surprisingly quick. Designing creatures remained fun, but the core gameplay was just too...shallow.
I think it really deserved the "most overhyped game" awards it won.
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Is it just me or does it seem that whenever there's a lesser version of some game, it has a longer name.
First we started off with 'Spore' on the PC.
Then it's 'Spore:Hero' on the Wii.
Finally, it's 'Spore: Hero Arena' on the DS.
Can we expect a 'Spore: Hero Arena - Electric Boogaloo' for the Atari 2600?
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Even if PS3 or Xbox360 added a Wii-type controller, it wouldn't help them because it wouldn't be the standard controller for that platform, and thus third-party developers wouldn't be able to count on the player having it. It would suffer the same fate as every other non-standard controller in history (light guns, mice, dance pads, etc.): only used by one or a few games. Nintendo's brilliance (or luck, if you're a Sony or MS fanboy) with the Wii was not that they made a new type of input device available, but that they forced developers to actually use it.
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