Seen the video, i must say i'm impressed, this thread is already filled with enough songs of praise for Will Wright, Maxim and their new and innovative creation Spore so i'm going to skip a beat to some criticism if nobody minds... thought not.
Please forgive my pessimistic and sarcastic tone.
From what i understand, you start off as pac-cell the amazing single-celled organism that must survive in the water evading some of the most dangerous evil-cells around until it reaches a stage were you can evolve and move on land. While on land you embark on an epic romancing RPG to find your true love, roll in the hay and produce a colony, the game then becomes a pretty generic RTS where you control the entire colony. You advance this colony age of empires style from the stone-age through to the nano-age after which you can expand your colony to other planets. Through out this entire process you play God ala Black & White and can customise everything from the look of your species to the layout of their homes, interior decorating and you can give them random toys to play around with*cough*Nintendogs*cough*while you watch with much joy and exitement just like a kid that got a new puppy awww
. Your species however will realise that they are not alone and must battle others for control of the galaxy, get your light sabres out guys, the Star Wars have begun.
The first thing i'm not sure about is will this game be single player, multiplayer or both? If the game has a multiplayer factor then they seriously need to think about how they will protect the amazing pac-cell noobs from being pwned by the 1337 hardcore gamers that will literally own half of the spore galaxy Darth Vader style the instant this game ships. Apart from that all i can see at this time is a pretty innovative yet simple RTS with MMO capabilities. Your objective is plain and simple, create your own species and conquer the galaxy, the game becomes a persistent online power struggle with the likes that leaving your PC for one second to take a piss might result in the extinction of your entire race.
As for single player, believe it or not some players might even enjoy the amazing pac-cell saga of the game or even the epic love story rpg based on looking for their one and true love and performing mating rituals and once you create a colony will you be able to go back to all that? Say you do build a colony and engage in war, a main focus of the game then how strategic will the fights be? At this point will the game just become another RTS but with your own species of organisms and cool toys for them to play with*cough*Nintendogs*cough*?
Anyways, these are just random no-basis thoughts, i know i know, the game isn't finnished yet, probably not even half way there and i might not even have a complete understanding of what i saw but i just feel a lot of people (not specifically on these forums) are prejudicial and think just because spore is tagged with Will Wright and the video oozes machismo this automatically means that this game will be the best game ever concieved by mankind.
It's gonna have flaws!
£0.02
