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Just recently I blogged about how I had been waiting years to see the epic game that will be Spore. Just over 48 hours later, Will Wright heard my prayer and has announced the release date of the game that will revolutionise the simulation genre, September 7, 2008. A small teaser trailer (Which can be viewed here) was released through the game’s first newsletter…which I signed up to two years ago.

The game is an open-ended Simulation and what looks to be a dash of RTS as well. The player is immersed in galaxy in which you will start with a tiny single-celled organism and grow them to conquer the galaxy. And by galaxy, I literally mean, galaxy. In 2005 Will Wright said a hundred thousand planets and then he mentioned millions of planets. After that he even said billions of planets! As you grow your single-celled organism you can attach various body parts and colour them in anyway. For once in a game you can make the creature literally anyway you want it to look. And that isn’t the best part, this humongous gigantic galactic proportional open-ended simulation is not the only awesome thing that makes this game look so damn good, it’s the fact that everything you see in your galaxy was created by another human.

The online feature is known as Asynchronous Sharing. I like to call it Massively Single-player Online Game. Everything that you create is uploaded to a master server and then shared to everyone else who has the game. This means that you could be invading the planet of a race created by your next door neighbour or someone in Antarctica! Though if you don’t have an Internet connection you can still play the game, you just get to fiddle with the developer’s content.

Now, we sit and wait seven long months for the awesome game that will be Spore. More information can be found at Spore’s Official Website.