The co-founder of Maxis, Will Wright, has been working on a new game ever since the last release of The Sims. He’s calling it Spore, and people are talking about it quite excitedly. It won the Games Critics Award for Best of Show and Best Original Game in 2005.
Electronic Arts is looking to break out of its franchise-laden portfolio with this game. Even though the demo last year was just a prototype, and not much has been shown this year, the development team has demonstrated their ability to innovate.
If you haven’t seen it already, watch Will Wright give a demo of the game play. Even better is the full presentation. Or go to the official game page to see what little information they have available.
It is currently scheduled to come out in Fall 2006 for Windows PCs, and will be coming out for the DS, PSP and mobile phones as well.
[...] We’ve looked at Spore here before. [...]