Spore set to take away the Sims's Crown?

[TrinireturnofGamez]

       ( dial up users beware, it will take a few hours to load ,  video itself is 30 min)
   
      Basically its all the versions of the Sims , Sid miers games  like civilization and Alpha Centauri and  that old snes game EVO where you take a primitive creature and survive to evolve , stuck together with an advanced 3d engine .
   
  Almost everything but the core gameplay is generated procedurally , for example ,  in the video a 3 legged creature with a tail sucker was created , the game mechanics allowed the creature to walk fluidly as well as grip objects with its tail ....


    I'm Seriously impressed with it, it looks to promise YEARS of gameplay , albiet after  awhile it may become  a tad repetative,  but the amount of different ways it can be played makes up for it , the ability to download other players creatures and civilizations and integrate them into your game .  The replayability may be extended even more by mods eg. to turn it into a  clone of ''Stargate'' .
   Your need to see the video yourself , this will change gaming as we know it ,  Both in creating a new genre and ushering in new technology .   
   

[ProtoJoe]

I'm sorry, but to compare this game to the sims seems to be a real understatment... I really honestly cant wait for this game.. I mean, to pretty much sum up the game...you get to play god!! And not (only) in that *cough*crappy*cough* way you do in the sim games like sim city and what not...but literally!

And it would be so amazing if you could use mods on it, this game more than has enough potential!  This really is something revolutionary!

Actually what really captivated me about this before i saw the video was the way the creator described it;

"I didn't want to make players feel like Luke Skywalker or Frodo Baggins. I wanted them to be like George Lucas or J.R.R. Tolkien."

Now that guy knows what hes talking about....


Anyone know the time frame in which this is going to be released?

[Czar]

Will Wright is just pure genius...plain and simple...

[Beomagi]

There's one thing that bothers me, and that's just the utter magnitude of this undertaking. I expect years more on this game's development, and am hoping 10GB of space would be enough It looks great, but from the videos it's pretty incomplete.

planned creature - cute furry bunnies with sharp pointy teeth ala "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail"

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 remember its Procedural,  entirely a dynamic program ,  down to the textures and shaders would be generated by small programs instead of using textures ,  the terrrain will be randomly generated and the texture applied to it.  Remember the 100k game K.Krieger? it used the same system , just to an extreme extent .  I'm sure this game will fit one a single DVD
     Procedural textures are the future for large scale games , though its not as good looking as if an artist applied the texture and modeling , but it is more efficient performance and storage wise .
    Quake wars is supposed to use it too.. to prevent it from killing people's rigs  like BF2... 

 Spore will change gaming as we know it.. i hope it's modable .

[BeoBear]

now thats intense!!!!

I can make an animal who kills with its crotch!!!

the possibilities ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I cant wait for this game!