Spore is Coming to the Wii

For those of you that have been living under a rock for the last few years, Spore is Will Wright’s (creator of The Sims) new game. Spore is absolutely epic in scope and nature. The player starts off as a microorganism, and evolves into a fully fleshed creature that you can create from scratch to look almost any way you want. But it doesn’t stop there. After you have developed and evolved your creature, you go on to lead multiples of them in a tribe, and then advance to control of an entire civilization, and finally explore and battle in the riches of space. Epic? Oh yeah. This is the one game I’ve been looking forward to more than I thought possible.

And yes, it is confirmed, some type of spin off is coming to the Wii. We don’t have any news as to whether it’ll just be some stupid knock off or whether it’ll be the full blown thing, but we know it is coming. Should we worry that they are calling it a ’spin off’ and not a port? I think it might be a good thing. The Spore team is saying that they are building everything from the ground up to take advantage of the Wiimote. This sounds like good news to me. The Wii needs games made for the Wii, not just ports of games you can play on any console.

So, maybe we’ll have a Spore themed collection of mini-games and they’ll suck. I prefer to be optimistic and think we’ll have Wiispore, a perfect combination of the most creative console ever and the most create game ever. I think it’ll be a long time before we find out though. Spore is scheduled for release on September 7th and I’m sure they won’t even be giving the Wii version serious time until after that. In any case, I’ll be watching for development with my fingers crossed.

Will Wright, creator or Spore has given praise to the Wii console in the past. He has said that while the PS3 and the Xbox 360 seem like they are a step up from their predecessors, the Wii seems like it is a giant leap, not just a step. I feel that he understands the point of the Wii and so I trust that he’ll really take advantage of the medium when he creates his Wii spin off.

If you’ve never heard of Spore before, do yourself a favor and look up some spore videos. It’ll blow your mind. Spore is the most interesting game coming out this year. Period. And news that it’ll be hitting the Wii sooner or later, especially in some customized form, is good news for the Wii. If this is done right, I predict that Wiispore could be the biggest game to hit the Wii.