Spore action RPG due at Comic-Con

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 July, 2010

Maxis heading to San Diego next week.

Maxis plans to discuss a new action role-playing game based on the Spore series at Comic-Con next week.

That's according to the event's sessions programme, which after blowing the lid on the game itself is then coy about details.

"Video Game Reveal: Maxis Studio - Maxis Studio (The Sims and Spore video games) has just announced their next project, a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore," it says.

"Join key leads from the dev team, Thomas Vu, Paul Sottosanti and Lauren McHugh, for the first game reveal to the public!"

The trio's session takes place on the evening of 24th July.

Earlier this year Maxis owner Electronic Arts told investors that a new game in the series, listed as "Spore Title TBA", would be released before 31st March 2011.

Later on the publisher was spotted registering the URL darkspore.com.

Spore was released for PC in 2008 and picked up strong marks on Eurogamer, and has since spawned various spin-offs, including Spore Hero for Wii and Spore Hero Arena and Spore Creatures on DS.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 2 years ago

    Why can't they just make a version of Spore that is true to the original design brief back in 2005? It was going to be a masterpiece...

  • Doctor_What #2 2 years ago

    How well did Spore sell? I remember EA telling everyone that it was going to be an unstoppable juggernaut then no-one I knew bought it.

  • RodHull #3 2 years ago

    Sim City 5 for the PC instead, please.

  • metalangel #4 2 years ago

    New SimCopter, please.

  • skp #5 2 years ago

    I bought it, enjoyed the first few stages - until tribal, then it lost the way. Space stage was very repetitive - though I enjoyed seeing other users creations randomly appearing in-game as they got downloaded. I remmeber getting chased by a Harry-potter on a broom-ship! ^_^

    Sadly, something went wrong with the install after a few months and nothing I could do would fix it. Because my save game is tied to the windows install, I couldn't even recover it to another PC or separate install. The DRM means just copying the save game folders wont work either.

    Spore is the first game I've used where the DRM even prevented save game migration, meaning a big disincentive to play it again (would have to start from the beginning after already conquering a large part of the galaxy) or buy anything again from EA.

    I also don't trust the 'Spore action RPG' will live up to the claims by the developers, since Spore failed to be true to the original demos shown and ended up just being a shallow experience.

  • Machetazo #6 2 years ago

    Spore console, confirmed? @1: because that's old. You can't honestly expect them to generate massive enthusiasm for a two year-old port of a game of mixed repute? That ship sailed, sometime around last year's E3.
    I think they're right to bring the concept across, with a relevant, better fit to consoles gameplay, if that's what's going on, here. Although with precedent established on Nintendo platforms, I think it's probably what this'll be. Such an idea has good potential.

  • hiddenranbir #7 2 years ago

    Can someone provide me this "original" design brief? I keep hearing about it but never been able to see it for myself.

  • Shakermaker #8 2 years ago

    @hiddenranbir

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

  • hiddenranbir #9 2 years ago

    Okay, I'm struggling to find anything that Wright says that makes out the game to be as super complicated as everyone expected it to be...