Spore Spawns Sims-Sized Expectations

EA risks millions on 5-in-1 evolutionary computer game
By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 4, 2008 8:40 PM CDT
Spore Spawns Sims -Sized Expectations
This photo released by Electronic Arts shows' "Spore," which is one of the first big games announced for Apple's iPhone.    (AP Photo)

Spore will face scary expectations when the one-of-a-kind computer game goes on sale next month, CNET reports. Electronic Arts has poured untold millions into it; fans of Will Wright's last all-new creation, The Sims—the best-selling game of all time—hungrily await a new diversion; and analysts ask if gamers will glom onto the premise of Spore, which offers five games in one.

Spore gamers will get a complex tool box to design species and play them through five stages, from cellular growth to interplanetary adventure. More than 2.5 million have already downloaded a demo to cook up creatures, which have been integrated in the game. Now Will Wright, EA, and 92 full-time workers hope that 3 years of hype will pay off. "The expectations are very high," one industry analyst said. (More Spore stories.)

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