Worm Before I am a Man?
Sim games have never really been my cup of tea. By sim I mean Sim City, The Sims, and whatnot. I do love a good flight sim. And, to be honest, I did get into Sim City for a while, but… well… It was then I decided I wasn’t cut out for government.
Anywho, as I browse the web I come across some cool gameage from time to time, and Spore is one of those little gems I’m not so sure about; but I know it looks cool.
The game is about evolution and the website says there are five stages of civilization which you get to take a creature you create through:
- Tide Pool Phase – You start out as a microscopic… er… spore. You eat stuff to get evolution points which you use to upgrade. Sounds pretty similar to Sim Earth… except you don’t need an Amiga emulator to play it. O_o
- Creature Phase – Think ape. Except with the creepy creature you designed.
- Tribal Phase - Ah, the ol’ Hunter/Gatherer stage. It’ll be interesting to see if tribes will be patriarchal/matriarchal and if there’s any type of religious development. Personally, I don’t see the religious angle happening. It is interesting to note that Humans were mostly matriarchal at this stage, until they started warring with each other.
- City Phase – Think Anthens. This is where the game turns into Sim City, and we start getting into macro- instead of micromanagement. (That’s for you, Brideano).
- Civilization Phase - Now we’re into global interaction. Other cultures have been developing and you can now make peace or make war on them.
- Space Phase - Spread out across the universe like the virus you are: Find habitable planets and colonize (or conquer) them. Supposedly this is going to be mission based, which is sort of disappointing because it’ll really limit the game. I guess it’s open enough. *shrug*
So, that’s a little run down on the basics. We won’t be seeing Spore until sometime in 2007, but it’s shaping up to be a great game. It probably won’t live up to the hype, which is totally extreme. I mean, they have Robin Williams demonstrating the darn thing.
Spore will be released on PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Nintendo Wii. Didn’t see any word on a Mac version. They don’t need any more games anyways, with the market glutted as it is. However, there’s a little ipetition going on to try to get a Mac version here.
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dood i dunno about all the sim games but i have been playin tom clancys ghost recon advance warfighter or something of that nature, anywho ive been playin on xbox360 live and its freakin great theres not any spores but it really pisses me off when someone is standing next to my respawn spot with a ******* (moderated O_o) gun waiting to kill ahhhh later
haha, I played the GRAW demo on pc. I was personally excited about it because it was the first game I played that supports the new Physics Processing Units… which aren’t even out yet. Hmmm… I sense a post about those. I love em.