{"id":863,"date":"2008-02-13T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/spore-hands-on-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T19:08:35","slug":"spore-hands-on-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/spore-hands-on-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Spore Hands On Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit-tech.net\/gaming\/2008\/02\/13\/spore_hands-on_preview\/1\">No, not me.<\/a> Sadly.<\/p>\n<p>But if someone knows someone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the hands-on doesn&#8217;t tell us a lot we don&#8217;t already know. Some new screenshots, and a description of the editing tool.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, the editors aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as straightforward as they look and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not actually as simple as just tossing a few hands onto a blob and putting that in the game. Instead, players are limited in terms of how detailed they can make their creatures and adding new limbs and so forth will cost you in terms of DNA points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also has a very unfortunate paragraph near the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I find the backstory of Spore fascinating too, not just the up-front gameplay. Electronic Arts gets a lot of stick from the gaming press and from gamers at large and a lot of people hold the uber-publisher with ire \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the company is well known for its repeated visits to Sequelville.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gamespot UK&#8217;s Guy Cocker has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/spore\/news.html?page=1&#038;sid=6185948&#038;part=rss&#038;tag=gs_pc&#038;subj=6185948\">another hands on over here<\/a>. And the typical Will Wright humor seems to be in place.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spore has a very dry sense of humour, and it calls on you to collect creatures for your own nefarious ends. However, there&#8217;s a downside to your scientific experimentation, and in our demo we managed to introduce a rogue infection to our city by collecting bug-ridden creatures. The result: You have to eradicate the surrounding colonies with your onboard laser, using the left mouse button to fire. Before you can start exploring and colonising other worlds, your final task on your home planet is to colour it purple, although we couldn&#8217;t quite understand why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to hear that there is a game there, though, since one of my concerns was how well EA\/Maxis would be able to integrate the various levels of the game. It&#8217;s hard enough to get micro\/macro right in settled genres. Trying to do something completely original and make it seamless from primordial ooze to prime directive is an especially big challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not me. Sadly. But if someone knows someone&#8230; Anyway, the hands-on doesn&#8217;t tell us a lot we don&#8217;t already know. Some new screenshots, and a description of the editing tool. However, the editors aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as straightforward as they look and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not actually as simple as just tossing a few hands onto a blob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[86,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}