Jan 22 2009
Four New Spore Titles Coming Soon
Enjoy playing Spore? Whether you are one of the 2 million plus that bought Spore, or the 1.7 million that illegally downloaded Will Wright’s latest opus, if you enjoyed the game you’ll no doubt be interested in the four new Spore titles that have been announced by EA. The first of which will be an expansion pack to the original Spore called Galactic Adventures, fleshing out the game’s biggest portion, space exploration.
With Galactic Adventures you will be able to create your own space missions, and even planets, which will allow you to actually leave your spaceship and do some adventuring. While the create your own game approach never really appealed to me, I can see how Spore junkies will be excited for this.
The second PC adaptation of Spore will be Spore Creature Keeper, a stand alone instalment focused on younger gamers. Creature Keeper will focus on the creation of your own unique creature, and will involve various toys and clothes that you can use with said creature. So, Spore-Lite for the youngsters.
Another of the titles will be Spore Hero for Wii, which will entail creating your own group of creatures and watching them evolve as you explore and accomplish tasks in a colourful world. With an emphasis on wacky motion controls of course. And the fourth title is a Nintendo DS game called Spore Hero Arena, in which you create Spore creatures, and take them into battle with other creatures from all over the galaxy.
So if you’re a Spore fan, you’re set for some time with new content. If not and you want an awesome Xbox Live Arcade game to play instead, check out the Reviews page for my take on the awesomeness that is The Maw.
If they can find a dev team to do something based on Ray Bradbury’s works without screwing up the ingenious source material, I’m all for that.