Saturday, July 29, 2006

New video game looks promising

Will Wright talking at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference about 'Spore', which looks like it could possibly be the best video game ever.

Just found this really interesting game online that was recommended to me by a friend. Check it out! It's a mixture of The Sims, Age of Empires, Risk, and Black and White. You're pretty much a god, controlling this single-celled organism when you first start out, keeping it out of the harmful bacteria's way, then when the organism (presumably the "spore") has grown enough, you can use an intuitive editor that's built into the game to "evolve" your organism by adding new methods of movement, weapons, mouths, feet, legs, arms...you name it. You eventually move up into a fish/ocean stage, then evolve your organism onto land. Once you've mated with a fellow organism, you get the option to become what is very similar to the role you play in Black and White. You get to evolve/control/edit multiple organisms similar to the one you just helped to evolve.

It's really hard to explain, but I included a video (above) of the demo that was played at E3 this year that does a good job of showing you exactly what it's all about. Trust me, once you watch it you'll want to buy it. Now. But unfortunately, it's not going to be available until Feb of next year. Aaahhhh, well, we'll just have to wait until then.

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