My New Favourite (unreleased) Game

Will Wright, who created SimCity and The Sims, recently gave a demonstration of his newest baby: Spore. Check out the comprehensive Gamespy covereage here. Here's a quote from Gamespot that sums up the game nicely:

"A sim that allows the players to control life on all conceivable scales--an emergent and beautiful simulation game that ranges from the cellular level all the way to the galactic level."

That is very exciting, to me. I'm all about the "sandbox" games; games that give you some tools, and an environment, then set you loose to do whatever you feel like doing (usually with some optional goals thrown in). Very exciting, INDEED. Of course, I didn't much care for The Sims, and I haven't played SimCity very much (although I am very impressed with the design of both), so we'll see if Spore turns out to be the game I'm hoping for.

Update: Screenshots!!!
Found via Tycho over at Penny Arcade, who demostrates why he makes a living off of his writing, while I write incomplete, incoherent blog posts on my lunchbreak, furtively glancing over my shoulder. He talks purdy-like, and describes all the things I meant to say about the game but forgot.