Official Spore Release Date

Hey guys, in case you don't know, Spore officially has a release date set for September 5th, 2008. Just figured I should update on that since there's no talk in this forum lately. Oh, but I should mention that's only for Europe, the US gets it 2 days later.

I got about 15 screenshots of the game on our website, the official screenshots, which you can view here: http://simcityboard.byethost11.com/screens/spore.php

I was looking through them, and I have to say, it actually looks pretty interesting

Hey, that is pretty cool! Those screenshots look sooo detailed. They should make SimCity look that good.

The graphics are pretty crap imo. And how come it's taken so long to release the damn thing?

Yeah, that's a good question. Probably because they kept coming up with new ideas, so they had to keep updating the game a lot.

I think I read somewhere that Will Wright himself is overseeing the whole project..

That's probably why

Yeah, I think that is true. It was his idea, and he wants it to come out just like he invisioned it.

I just hope it's not his last idea...

True, but he has to realize that people are waiting. You would think they could pull a game out faster than 3 years, or however long it's been. I mean, those guys at Maxis are very talented, it just shouldn't take that long.

Yeah but I think they're going for perfection on this one. SimCity Societies kind of disapointed fans already, so I think now more than ever they will have to pull off a really great game.

True, I guess that is a good point, but still. It has taken far too long, so many setbacks and all.

Yeah, I suppose. I was never really paying very much attention to this game until just recently though, so to me it hasn't really been long. To everyone who has been waiting since news got out about it, I can see why it seems like too long.

^Same here. I almost forgot this game was even still coming out until they posted the official release date. But that's what I never liked about the whole thing, they never release anything about a game until it's ready to come out.

That goes for any game though. They try not to release any details about it so that way they get a bunch of hype going.

True. But still, with a game like this you need to release details to get any hype going. I still think it will be a good game, but man they took long enough..

Oh yeah I almost forgot, Spore's been released. Apparently it's been out for a couple of days in some places, but we still have to wait until tomorrow for us here in the U.S. (not that I'm planning on buying it).

I saw that it has actually been about 4 years in development, and also a rumor that it cost 80 million dollars to make....I don't know if that's true, but somehow I doubt that. But anyway, just a heads up that it's out for those of us who weren't paying attention

Yes, I was going to wait until today to announce this, but yeah, Spore is out all around the world today. For being such a big release things seem a bit quiet though.

I guess that's because everybody's too busy playing it