Spore, a new game from Electronic Arts, is generating a big buzz. Spore is designed by Will Wight, the creator of the Sims games. Spore allows you design life starting with a single-cell organism in the primordial goo. GameSpot.com and GameSpy.com have both have written favorable articles about the game which have generated additional buzz. Wired also has an interview with creator Will Wight. The Wired feature also provides a good description of Spore:
Starting with single-cell organisms, players work on designing life with ever more complexity. As the game progresses, players must figure out how to take creatures from individual animals to small tribes and then to cities, whole planets, solar systems and galaxies.
Wright and his team of about 30 claim to have broken new ground with Spore.
While it's a single-player game, everything players create, from huts to spaceships, can make its way into a giant database, which will be used to populate planets in the online Spore universe.
It's what they call a massively single-player game.
