Whatever happened to Spore? I hear you cry! Well, the game was notably absent from last weeks E3 and the throngs of journalists hoping to play the game were denied. In comes IGN with the reason.
IGN has a new video, screenshots and an interview with Maxis VP of Marketing Patrick Buechner. If you don't want to bother reading it (although if, like me, you're so interested in this game that you devour every last piece of information then you will) I'll summarise it here:
- The game is in the Alpha stage of development, meaning most of the games main features are done and it's coming down to tweaking and polishing.
- The team are getting extremely positive feedback from play testers (to be fair wouldn't a guy who's job is marketing say this anyway?)
- There are so many genres mixed into the game that the player has to adapt their play style and gaming experience of each genre to fit each one.
- Since the team are already committed to making the game playable at the Leipzig Games Convention in August they didn't want to fit it into multiple events by showing it off at E3 as well.
- The press will be able to play the game at the Leipzig Games Convention but it will be behind closed doors.
Patrick also talked about the DS version of Spore:
- The DS version of Spore will be out around the same time as the PC version.
- You won't be playing the whole evolutionary arc on the DS version but the main focus will still be customisation.
- It won't interact with the PC version in any way.
- Both versions should be out sometime shortly after April 1st 2008.
- The creature editor portion of Spore will be released several weeks in advance of the core game.
So, sorry Spore fans but it looks like we're going to have to wait until August for new information on the game. Let's hope it will be worth the wait.
E3 2007: Spore Update - IGN.
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