Another game in the horizon for EA Maxis, Spore, a massive online multi-genre game, is set to be launched on September 5 in Europe and on September 7 in North America and Asia-Pacific.
Some call it a god game; others simply cannot categorize it in a single game genre. In the game, the player is allowed to design his own creature, starting from a microorganism and then nurturing it until it developed into a complex, social animal enabled to have intelligent mastery of the objects surrounding it and interacting with alien species across the hundreds of galaxies. It is perhaps similar to the Sims 2 but is online and wider in scope. Gameplay possibilities are enormous as one could concentrate on developing a single creature or a whole new civilization. And while it is a single player game, one’s creatures and civilizations are automatically shared with other players, and thus the endless source of different gameplay.
Here are screenshots of the game, from the official site of Spore:
Cell Stage
Creature stage
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