Spore Revolution

Spore release date pushed some more

I just read a great Will Wright interview from GameSpot, entitled EA not Spore-ing until late '07.   The article was written by Tor Thorsen, and the interview entitled Will Wright talks Spore, Leipzig, next-gen was written by Andrew Park.  Both were published on August 9th. I pulled three important facts out of this interview.

Firstly, the release date has furthur been pushed to at least July 2007.  They are in the home-stretch because all levels are playable, but they still have a lot of fine tuning to do.

Secondly, my estimate of perhaps 6GB of hard drive space might not be so far off.  My hard drive space guestimate was countered by some because they say that creatures will be taking up as little as 3kb of space.  In this article, Will Wright says that that is the compressed file size, and that every creature will be at least 3mb. 3mb upon 3mb adds up quickly!

Last but not least, there will be a playable version of Spore at the Lepzig Game Conference in Germany!  We can look forward to great new videos then. :)

Spore System Requirements

There has been no word really as of yet what the minimum system requirements of Spore will be.  Most of us can only assume, and after seeing Will Wright's joke specifications we can only hope that it will be much less.  Here are the prototype front and back covers he made for his game which he had initially named SimEverything.

After some research by looking at some of the most popular games of today, I came up with the following specifications.  The 3D engine of Spore may be a brand new one, but its gameplay may not be more demanding on the computer than games such as the Sims 2 or World of WarCraft.  Also, having the Internet is not required but for a full Spore experience it is recommended.  I have increased some specifications due to Spore being cutting edge, but not by much so that the game can continue being mainstream. 

What I think the minimum system requirements should be:

• OS: Windows 2000, XP, ME or Vista.
• 1 GHz processor or better.  Current popular games require at least 800MHz.
• 512 MB of RAM or more.
• 64 MB 3D graphics card. Current popular games require at least 32 MB, but the more video memory the better!
• At least 6 GB of hard drive space.

Happy Easter everyone!