Ea And Maxis To Ship Spore In September

[chrono]

EA AND MAXIS TO SHIP SPORE IN SEPTEMBER

Redwood City, CA - February 12, 2008 - Get ready for the next Big Bang this fall! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore™, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS™, and mobile phones.

"The wait is almost over," said Maxis Chief Designer Will Wright. "We're in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can't wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year."

Spore gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers.

Consumers can visit SPORE to sign up for the Spore newsletter or check out all-new screenshots and video of the game. Members of the media can visit EA's press site at info.ea.com for information about all of EA's games.

Only been 2+ years...

[TheGreatRaja]

kewl, this game is a must have for me
if it's half a kewl as it looks it should be a blast

[Viper]

That's good to hear...I was starting to think the game was going to be dropped, so it's nice to know that it's already in the finishing stages

[chrono]

Personally I'm still highly concerned on how it will play. RTS?, Sandbox?, 4X?, Multi-player online only?, Single Player Campaign?, does it have a storyline? VS. mode?

It's an ambitious idea, but give people the skinny on it!

[Mauiman]

I guess this game makes Empire earth look alot like a childs game.

[Martocticvs]

chrono - I think it's meant to be most of those things rolled up into one... bit of a genre-buster. I'm pretty sure the single player is intended to draw content that other people have created off the spore server or whatever you want to call it to populate the universe in your game, but it will be all AI controlled... no idea what multiplayer plans there are for it though. Definitely a game I'll be getting if only because it's so different

[chrono]

Well if it is designed to be a Online game then it should be interesting when/if you fight a battle of any type because of creature designs being so potentially radical!

[spudmonkey]

The original plan was for your creature to be able to appear in other people's games, but not as a complete multiplayer solution - kind of like the Wii Mii roaming.

This is either going to be really great or really rubbish. Hopefully they haven't tried to squeeze too much into it such that the gameplay suffers. Been looking forward to this for a long time now, but I remember being hugely disappointed with Black and White when that came out after a similar level of excitement, so fingers crossed

[Martocticvs]

Yeah Black and White was massively hyped... and fell well short of the mark Full of annoying bugs too

[HawkMan]

The game is just a sandbox, not 4x or RTS, outside of a very simplified RTS thing in battles/conquests. and there's no online multiplayer as such. everyone plays in their own little sandbox, but the aliens you create get uploaded to the sentral spore database, and the aliens of other players are used to populate other players sandbox universe along with template aliens and possibly random stuff.



it's a game I'll probably buy cause I love the conceopt and such of the game, and it's fun to sandbox for a while. BUT after conquering the galaxy once and loading it up a few times to create crazy aliens... I don't see it being played much, it's not got a whole lot of longevity. it's got replayability, since it's got no real game to talk of , but I don't see that I'll really bother.

It's a hardcore version of Sims, wich is why it'll probably not have close to The Sim's fanbase or playerbase. Too hardcore while the Sims is just simple easy fun. and has a much borader market appeal in any case. Though I doubt the'll lose money on the game Too many people like me who'll pick it up to play around with and have fun