Spore Hero Interview

seems ok... let's see how it turns out...

First!

This game looks okayish.

lol Ryan Davis, you're a trooper...

If they had the sharing capabilities of the PC version of the game they'd be shouting it from the rooftops, I'm sure that if the Wii would let them they'd have all of the content from the PC version compatible with the Wii version too

I'm very sad they destroyed any kind of biological educational stuff in it that was original intended for this game. The scientific stuff that could have been useful to teach children was a great potential for the game, but "the cute marketing team" terminated everything and replaced it with this complete piece of crap and mild humor. 

Where is the City and the Isle? ..... Where is the Tower I was building?... They have passed, like rain on the mountains.... like wind in the meadow.  The days have gone down at Maxis, down with Spore.... into shadow....

How did it come to this?  *sheds a silent tear for Maxis*

something to finally use my wii for

i think its hilarious how they cant do ports to the wii so they make gimped versions of the same game and add on something to the name or change the name slightly.

Abrupt ending much?

This looks horrible. Anything that even remotely tones Spore down is going to be crummy, because Spore is teetering on the edge of Awesome and Bad.

"We're not talking a lot about the sharing." = there is none

Talk about a silver fox!!

Call me prejudice but if a game's PR rep is a 50+ year old woman, I'm probably not interested. 

Yea I can already tell your gonna wanna play the PC version over the DS and Wii version, well me personally anyway.

I'm going to continue boycotting the Spore franchise.  Fuck DRM.

so, find out more at e3

why does the wii hurt me so

The saddest part is that this game could actually be better than the real Spore.

Go back and rewatch this video, paying attention to Ryan's mic's distance from his face, and then compare to where her mic is in comparison.  I don't wanna say that Ryan was definitely nervous around her but...I'm going to go on a limb and speculate it.

i dont care about this game whatsoever....but DAMN,...i think i have a major crush on Lucy Bradshaw, she looks like a classy lady, if only i lived in USA and a million other things...LOL

Spore Hero?? Crappy name.

The new Spore for the DS definitely looks better than the previous version on the DS, in my opinion. I thought the Wii one is looked pretty good, hopefully it will turn out to be as good as the PC version.

LOL Why is Ryan holding the mic so high?  He could scratch his forehead with the mic doing that.

i don't think she's 50

It's not a port of Spore. It's just a spin-off of two new games exploiting the Spore franchise. I wonder if they'll do something similar for the 360/PS3 or do they plan on snubbing Sorny & Mr. Softy consoles?

Spore should've been on the Wii in the first place, PC was definitely not a good platform choice. It also looks like they did the sensible thing and tightened it up, made it less ambitious and focused on the strengths - creature creation and fighting. The PC version was a disjointed assembly of half-games with a quixotic focus on UGC.

I doubt I'll find time for the Wii version, but I welcome their approach.

@TheFrostedGamer: Ryan's held mics like that since the gamespot days. I believe he's spoken to ladies before as well.

that chick so wanted to bone ryan

Women and video games are virtually synonymous.

Hiya Lucy...

That's not just a PR rep, Lucy's been attached to the Spore project for years. Whatever "general manager at Maxis" means, it could be brand manager or god knows what in their complex corporate ecosystem. If I had to take a guess, 'The Sims' and 'Spore' would logically both be under the general manager of Maxis, so it's no surprise they're yanking out components of Spore and crapping it onto a console system, just like they did with The Sims.

Was there a single Sims for console that wasn't a drastically inferior or limited, hollow shell of the real thing?

I hope EA's thrall-studios stop making such a glut of craptastic bait-and-switch titles, now that EA is losing money hand over fist. Then again, that wouldn't really correlate, corporate CEO's go by the guiding principle that marketing = profit, good game = loss... they'll probably just close down Maxis and Lionhead, and other studios that dream a little too big to be economical, and offshore their franchises to foreign, budget studios.

I've learned over the years that assuming the worst with EA is the most realistic way to go.

right, great thank you-

I remember the DS games, but I had no idea a Wii Spore game was a thing.