Spore is out in about a month, and the spore creature editor is available as free trial download NOW

Get the creature editor, it's miles of fun, the full version is only 10$ so you have something to play with while waiting. Even the free trial is tons of fun.

http://www.spore.com/ftl

Don't know what the hell Spore is? Living under a rock are we?

Spore is a total universe creator.

You start out making the primordial soup creature that you will evolve (Sorry fundies, guess you don't get to have fun ehehehe)

After selecting some properties and graphically building your amoeba or whatever you spawn it and let it live. After a while, based on what it learns and what it can do with whatever stats you gave it you can upgrade. You get new building blocks of life, like arms legs eyes TONS of shit.

Then after evolving your creature becomes sentient, also based on its past, it can build somewhere to live, find mates, form a tribe.

It goes on to learn how to build cities, which you again build from various bulding blocks.

Now it gets interesting, if it wasn't before, because the game is an massive online SINGLE player. Your planet is populated by creatures other people made on the fly and these can be friendly, hostile, may try to take over your creatures cities, or they may be friendly and you can develop trade with them.

Now you can create vehicles, totalle free form like creating creatures and buildings so you can move around the planet.

You can import buildings, vehicles and cities from other players around the world, or creatures and see what they came up with and base your game around that.

Oh but it doens't stop there by a long shot.

Now you evolve to be able to fly into space. And guess what, space is filled with planets that you can terraform and start new worlds. You can fly to your own planet and grab a creature from there, either your own or ones other people created and drop them on the planet you formed and see what happens.

Planets can be land based or water worlds, you can make ocean creatures or land and flying creatures.

Other planets in the universe are also loaded from other players worlds so you can fly there and make relations with those planets or take your creature there and see if it can take over.

Oh you thought it stopped there, oh no, there's also galaxies, black holes and I don't know what the fuck else.

Here's the official youtube channel with tons of videos from the devs showing of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Spore?ob=1

The full game is supposed to be out in about a month, and I can't WAIT.
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