If there’s one game that is getting massive mainstream press right now, Spore would be it. It reminds me of the interest level before The Sims came out. Not ironically enough, the man behind The Sims, Will Wright, is also behind Spore. 1UP has a preview of Spore online, taking a look at the ambitious simulation from Electronic Arts. Here’s a quote from Mr. Wright himself:

“In some sense, it’s about stepping back and getting a sense of all the different things the universe is made of at all the different scales,” says Wright. “At the higher levels of the game, one of the things you can research is genetic engineering, at which point you can access the creature editor for free and you can design as many creatures as you want, and use them to populate worlds. You could recreate an entire ecosystem designing every creature in it.”