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Big_Adam
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock you would have heard of Spore by now.
No?
Really?
Well it’s from the people who have made Sim-insert-random-subject-here games Maxis and is the game that seems to have many going “oooow” over. The idea of the game is to be a god of sorts. No really, you design a little life and let it grow. You start at the single celled level and work your way up to space exploration. Really, it looks rather good.
Thus, being good someone leaked the demo of it early. So I decided to sneak a peek.
After smuggling the demo to my lair I installed it and fire it up. You’re greeted by a few EA/Maxis messages about “this is a demo blah blah” and the like. Then you get to the main sort of screen which to anyone who’s played The Sims will recognise.
Hit the create creature button and your off.
Off to a pink blob. At first it seems a bit crap, till you realise you can mess about with what little bone structure there is. You can pull, twist, stretch it for all it’s worth and that’s just the body.
Moving on you’ll want arms (you don’t need them but meh) which again you can pull, twist, rotate and generally do what ever the crap you like. Really it’s like having a mass of play dough to mess about with. If you don’t like something you can just twist it and stretch it until you do with your godly mouse powers.
Several minutes of twiddling I let my creature walk!
I shall call him Wobbly.
I found that because of where his … it’s .. err .. knees are placed it walked backwards. So I made a pink abomination with backwards legs, a freaky mouth and thumpers.
Thing is, it’s fun to mess with. You watch this thing you made walk and move really rather well. It doesn’t look wrong. It moves as you would expect it. It sort of lumbers about being tall and squawking away at anything it wanted to.
I let it walk around, played with its emotions and general enjoyed its short tragic life (didn’t save Wobbly, the shame).
So, Spore demo impression; It’s pretty damn good really. It’s still sort of early but it’s fun just to make a creature and let it lumber about then try to improve it. Go for a freak or something more human. Or as the guys at Kotaku have done, recreate the Fruit Fucker from Penny Arcade because you can.
I await the MONSTER that will be Spore. It’s going to be damn good for everyone who wanted to control a tiny virtual life.
Edit.
Another DNA abortions I made.
Right, the arms. Well … my mouse slipped and … errm … yeah.
Cool, will have to give this a go…