ThinkGaming has written about their experience of Will Wright’s E3 presentation for the highly anticipated simulation game, Spore. Information abound, including tidbits about the creature editor, how they turn out based on your choices, how the game goes online to populate systems, and so much more. I can’t begin to describe how excited I am for this game, and I’m certainly not the only one.

The space mode has developed quite considerably since the GDC 2005 video (of course) and has a few very nice new features. When navigating across the galaxy and looking at planets, you can mouse over one and there is a small set of sliders that show information about the planet, specifically whether it has wildlife, an intelligent civilization, or the atmospheric features (cold, hot, forested, etc). Another really cool feature is the Sporepedia. The Sporepedia is a card deck where there is a card for absolutely everything that you create and is available in the game – from galaxies to creatures to cities to buildings. The galaxy is incredibly vast and has many different possibilities of alien races to be encountered and planetary conditions.