Spore

Again Will Wright will revolutionize the gaming world with a simulation of the real world. After establishing itself as one of the most important designers in the market for games like SimCity and The Sims, Wright ventures now in a simulation of evolution of species with Spore , developed by Maxis and distributed by Electronic Arts.

Spore allows players to take a one-celled creature from its earliest stages in the primordial soup, becoming multicellular and finally leaving the seas to populate the land of a planet. This creature will find similar who will mate, reproduce, and then establish tribal communities.

At this point the game becomes a game of strategy, where the community will fight for the survival and growth, becoming a city, then a civilization able to dominate, through diplomacy or supremacy, all other civilizations on this planet.

The cycle is complete when your civilization becomes then able to travel to other planets, where you can make contact with other races, go to war with them, abduct people and help their popular these planets.

Spore is called a "massively single-player online game" for allowing the creatures to other players are used to populate the planets of the galaxy where it becomes the game. It is a game difficult to characterize because it has elements from several categories, such as simulation and strategy.

A kind of demo of the game was released through the Spore Creature Creator, which lets you try out the system for creation and customization of creatures, which is found in step on the creature evolves and becomes land. The demo can be downloaded for free at the official site , and there is also a paid version with a larger number of components to create the character.

See below some videos showing various stages of this great and fun game. Spore is being released today, September 5, for Latin America and Europe and September 7th for North America.

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