Spore, Will it be an addictive sandbox game? Options

[Neela]

I am currently been following the game in development called Spore.

It looks to be my type of game actually and its really turning out well I think. Though it is a long way off still from release, I thought I would share a few recent links for it. I find this game fascinating..

Heres a short video of the creature editor

I also found this flash game which is going to be similar to the very first stage of the SPORE game. This is already so darn addictive just seeing how large I can grow my little creature..

Play the game here

[The Wolf]

I love the concept of Spore, but I just hope they won't screw up the end side of it.

I mean, in a video of Spore I watched, the space time was simply presented as flying around the universe and play god.

Now, when presented like that, it does sound fun, but what's the challenge? As I saw it, once got your UFO, you could just fly around and destroy or create worlds just like that. I couldn't see any diplomacy between the worlds apart from destroying them.

Or maybe I just got it all wrong. Please prove me wrong.