Spore hits Planet Earth
Spore, the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe, hits stores worldwide this week.
The latest brainchild of game legend Will Wright, maker of the world's top-selling computer game The Sims, Spore is being released in Europe and Asia on Friday ahead of its September 7 debut in the United States, with some pre-ordered versions available here late last week.
"We are hoping to build a community as big as that of the Sims," Wright said during a Paris stopover this week ahead of the launch of the game by Electronic Arts. "You are given this God-like power," Wright told AFP in a recent interview in California. "You can create ecosystems, biospheres ... We try to make it real science."
