This actually surprised me a tiny amount:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/ea-m ... hone-game/

Well that's interesting, but I can't help but think it will be nothing like the actual game. The screen's a bit too small, and it probably doesn't have the storage capacity. It will be very interesting to see how that turns out.

Maybe only for those lucky people that got the 16GB iPhone... ah well, I'm happy with this 8GB one.

Ah, yeah, I guess. Though I still don't see how it's going to be able to run a full version.

It doesnt run a full version...

It runs a simple game that is an "add-on" if you like. Basically you get to play the initial microbe section of the game. This section is also being released on the DS... We don't have any information at the moment about the Wii version of the game.

Ah, it didn't say that in the article Aaron linked. Hmm, just the microbe stage, probably not worth it, IMO, unless it's really cheap. The microbe section is only a tiny fraction of the game.

Kyle showed me a vid on youtube about this game eons ago, it looked really interesting thought looked like you needed alot of patience for the first part of the game but looked so rewarding once you had finally created something that could stand on two legs (or four or even six if you wanted ). I would love to get this but one i dont have the time and my computer has the graphical power of a gizmondo XD Maybe at uni if i get something better. Is it on pc or xbox or both? I know its coming out on ds but i mean whose going to bother getting that?
also would this game actaully have an ending or does it just end up like the sims keep on playing untill u cba anymore?

I've only heard about it on PC, could be wrong, though.

Anyway, I personally think the first section looks pretty fun, with a completely different style. Minigame etc.

The overall game doesn't really have an end, you get to the stage where you become a futuristic civilisation and can build a UFO. At that point you can make contact with the thousands of other planets, or simply destroy them.

Its on Wii aswell
http://kotaku.com/gaming/confirmed/its- ... 315961.php

I said that :/ Does no one actually read what I post now

I doubt itll be as good as the PC version still... Nothing will top that

Your post could be interpreted as it's not confirmed yet, so that was confirmation.

One of the features I found interesting on the PC version was it's ability to download other people's creations randomly, to populate your world. This could work with Wi-Fi connect, but whether the Wii will be able to store them all is a big question.

Thats the main problem... Apparently they can't do a downloadable Fighter for Brawl, because there is knowwhere to put it...

So I would have to assume the download stuff would be kicked off Spore too when it is on the Wii

Well there's 512MB of internal memory. Not a right lot, considering models and textures are probably around 10MB a piece now, probably a lot more.

I guess Spore could ask for it's own SD card, it would certainly need it to be as fully featured as the PC version. IMO, the Wii's flash drive is perfectly fine, just people seem to want to put big multiplatform games on the Wii, which doesn't work.

Theres always "live" storage. Stores it on server and then retrieves as needed.

Would consume a lot of bandwidth, for both the client and the hosts. This would be a problem as people have limited per month usage, and constantly downloading models would take up a lot of that.

They've added Youtube Integration into Spore now:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/ ... spore.html

That's pretty interesting. Don't really see how it's going to work, really, unless it's like a simple inbuilt FRAPs that just records at the low quality and uploads.

The Spore Creature Creator was released today

http://www.spore.com/
http://eu.spore.com/whatisspore/article.cfm?id=23835

LOL, the Spore Country select page is /ftl

I don't think I'll bother downloading it, I would rather play the full game fully when released, as a matter of personal preference.

LOL, agreed :})

I mean the actual web address, if you didn't notice, lol.

Also, it appears there's a trial version and a full version of the creature creator, is the full one for preorders?

IIRC you can buy the creature creator with more body parts etc... but it still isn't the full game.
In my mind I'm thinking GT5 prologue.

So basically you spend money to get a small part of a game

Yea... and it is fooked already.

Fully up to date DX9... apparently I don't have directx installed... update? *click yes* "This application has failed to start because d3dx9_27.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem."

Is this the free version or did you actually buy it