(Console) Spore Hero
EA Spring 2009 Showcase – Spore Hero for Wii gameplay footage
May 7th
Dead Space Extraction for Wii kind of looks like Spore Hero….wait a minute! So that’s EA’s plan to pull in hardcore gamers :P Enjoy this video of Spore Hero gameplay for the Nintendo Wii – don’t mind the messed up title, LOL.
GameStop predicts Spore Hero & Spore Hero Arena release dates
Apr 24th
Sporedum pointed out to me earlier that GameStop has given both Spore Hero (for the Nintendo Wii) and Spore Hero Arena (DS) are both set to be released on September 22. Of course, the release date isn’t official, it’s just what they are estimating at this time. The pricing is typical of standard Wii/DS games, priced at $50 and $30.
PocketGamer’s first look at Spore Hero Arena DS
Apr 23rd
I was beginning to wonder when we’ll know more about the other Spore games (Spore Hero for Wii, Spore Hero Arena for DS and Spore: Creature Keeper for the PC). Looks like information is starting to come out, as PocketGamer was able to catch a glimpse of Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS!
The main mode of the game is linear and level-based and has you following the story of the inhabitants of the planet, one group of which are being wiped out by the other. Of course, this enables you to get all combat-y on the bad guys without moral ambiguity. So you’ll wander around, eating things and collecting blue shards to build up and evolve your creature, and fighting.
Movement is stylus-based. You just drag it around the screen and your creature follows on. In combat, you’ll use the D-pad, which triggers moves such as spitting and striking, and you can hold down the D-pad to power up super moves.
As well as the planetary activity, you’ll get involved in the arena-based battling which give the game its name. These have you fighting against multiple enemies (up to three); either computer controlled, or against your friends in multiplayer mode.
The types of games include activities such as Capture the Egg (like Capture the Flag but with an egg) and Battle Royale, in which you have to push your opponents over the edge of a platform. The arenas will feature in game’s main mode, but you’ll also be able to select them individually from the main menu if you just want a quick blast. Lots more battle types are promised, but EA is yet to reveal them.
Details on Spore Hero Wii
Mar 9th
Stephen Totilo from MTV Multiplay Blog spoke with Spore General Manager Lucy Bradshaw about Spore Hero for Wii.
The basic storyline of Spore Hero involves a catastrophic event on your planet thus your creature catches a ride on a meteor and plummets into a new planet. Once you are there, you are able to interact with that planet’s creatures – either combat or social behavior. The game will also give you quests, in which you’ll earn new abilities and unlock further areas. An example was given that if you earn the “Jump” ability, you’ll be able to access areas that were once unreachable.
Lucy does mention that while the game has similarities from the PC version (procedural animation returns), the two are not connected in any way. Do’h! Would of been amazing if the Wii version could of used the creatures from the existing Sporepedia! However, the Wii version will be getting new parts as well as new ‘motion’ controls with the Wii-Remotes motion detecting features.
Although there are no screenshots, Lucy mentions that the game fits best on the Wii with its “cheerful experience” that fits right into Nintendo’s friendly atmosphere.
“This is very playful,” she said, explaining why the game wasn’t slated for, say, the PlayStation 3. “It takes advantage of the controls explicitly. And even stylistically, when you see the game, you’ll go, ‘Oh yeah, that’s definitely a Nintendo Wii game.’” As for the controls, she said that the team is “taking a look” at the Motion Plus option for even better Wii motion-sensitivity than what is available directly out of the box.
While Motion Plus would be an extra boost, I wouldn’t count on it…And the fact that she stated what it looks like (Oh yeah, that’s definitely a Nintendo Wii game.) will most likely have gamers stating the game will look like crap! Sad to see that, but a lot of gamers bash Wii for it’s simplistic graphics and weak hardware. I don’t care what it looks like, I’ll play it!
Check out the full article here.
Spore 2009 lineup video – Galactic Adventures, Creature Keeper & Spore Hero
Jan 22nd
Thanks to Sporepedia for the find!
Spore 2009 lineup press release
Jan 22nd
Below you can find more details on the 4 upcoming Spore games set to be released in EA’s press release for the Spore 2009 lineup:
Create, Play and Share With Spore Franchise as EA Unveils Diverse Software Line-up for 2009
The Spore franchise is evolving! With more than 65 million pieces of user-created content shared online, fans from around the globe have gravitated to the game’s powerful creativity-centered experience and massively single-player content sharing site. This year, the award-winning Spore franchise continues to evolve as Maxis, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio announces four new titles, each designed to deliver a unique experience to a specific audience; Spore™ Galactic Adventures, Spore™ Creature Keeper*, Spore™ Hero* and Spore™ Hero Arena*. This roster offers unique gameplay for space hunters, creature creators and action adventurers, proving that Spore has something for everyone – gamers, kids and Nintendo fans alike.
“Last year was a very exciting year for Maxis with the release of Spore. We were overwhelmed by the massive response to the game from the millions of people that created, shared and played in the Spore universe,” said General Manager of Maxis, Lucy Bradshaw. “This year we’re going to experiment with new experiences that extend the powerful creativity tools of Spore to all-new audiences. With the universe as our backdrop, the only limit in the Spore universe is your own imagination.”
The next big bang for Spore on PC comes this spring with the deeply immersive and customizable expansion pack, Spore Galactic Adventures. Spore Galactic Adventures adds a tremendous amount of variety and depth to the original “space game” in Spore, allowing players to beam down to planets, play mission-based adventures and even create their own customized adventures for the first time. Each adventure has a unique reward to upgrade a space creature with special accessories – from an Energy Blade and Stunning Charm to a Jump Jet and more. Players can fight their way to victory as a Warrior, dance with new friends as a Bard, and much more. With an almost unlimited number of user created adventures, there’s more to play than ever before. The “adventure creator” in Spore Galactic Adventures gives gamers the tools to make their own missions and share them with friends via www.spore.com.
Younger Spore fans will have a blast with the Spore Creature Keeper, a stand-alone PC game that has players nurturing, training and playing with their own personally-created creature. With lots of toys, clothes and gizmos to play with, players can pamper their pets to perfection! With Spore Creature Keeper, fans can play with their creation alone or have a play-date online for endless creature fun. Spore Creature Keeper brings all the fun of creature creation to a new level by adding nurturing, teaching and social components to the experience.
Spore will make its highly-anticipated debut on the Nintendo Wii with Spore Hero, an all-new adventure game focusing on creativity and evolution that was built from the ground up for the unique controls for Wii™. Spore Hero takes players on an exciting adventure through a beautiful, colorful world. Spore Hero Arena for Nintendo DS™ builds on the success of 2008’s hit Spore™ Creatures and allows players to create fully-3D Spore creatures and take them into battle with an array of other creatures across the galaxy. Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena offer two all-new Spore experiences available exclusively for Nintendo platforms this fall.
To learn more about Spore, to download a free trial of the Spore Creature Creator, or to visit the more than 65 million player-created creations to date, please visit www.spore.com. For screen shots or press materials about Spore, please visit our press web site at http://info.ea.com
* Working title
About Spore
Spore, available for PC and Mac®, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled with creations made by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. Spore Creatures, available on Nintendo DS™, takes players on a quest to save their species and the entire Galaxy. Meet, befriend or fight other creatures in a number of unique Touch Screen-based activities. For more info, please visit www.spore.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS FreestyleTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, Maxis, and SPORE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S and/or other countries. Wii and Nintendo DS is a trademark of Nintendo. Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
More Spore for 2009: 4 titles in the works
Jan 22nd
CVG has touched base with Spore senior producer Morgan Roarty on the future of Spore for the 2009 year. Morgan stated that there are currently 4 Spore games in the work: Spore Galactic Adventures (Spore’s first true expansion pack), Spore: Creature Keeper (standalone PC version aimed at the younger folks to raise and control creatures like Sim characters), Spore Hero (Wii) and Spore Hero Arena (DS). Here’s a snippet from CVG:
The expansion’s targeting a “deeper variety of gameplay” based around Spore’s space stage, and the overwhelming majority of its new content will be created by the Spore community using new editing tools that’ll allow players to customise their own planets and create their own adventures to share with other gamers.
The studio’s also handling Spore: Creature Keeper, a standalone PC product targeted at a younger audience. Described as “like a mini-Sims” game, it will see players nurturing a newly born creature that has “Sims motives like energy and bladder”.
While this is all fine and dandy, I have a feeling there will be even more Spore…I mean there is still room for another expansion and possible 2-3 more parts pack! But before they begin squeezing the franchise for all it’s work…Maxis please correct the DRM issue so you’ll stop getting bad press! Oh, and a friendly word of advice, don’t consider Spore: Racing or Spore Sports. That’ll just be overkill 
CVG will also have a preview for Spore Galactic Adventures coming up later today! Thanks to Space Oddity’s Spore Blog for the tip!
‘Spore Hero’ for Wii, ‘Spore Hero Arena’ for DS?
Jan 15th
My favorite Nintendo fansite, GoNintendo reported today details from a GamePro German article regarding Spore for Wii as well as a new Spore for DS. In the article, it goes on telling us that it will not be like Spore on PC. They even state that they have a trailer for the games in which they will publish soon. I’m in awe wondering what the game will be like. If anything, I have a feeling it might turn out to be in the style of an RPG.
German Article
Nach dem PC, dem Nintendo DS und dem iPhone bekommt nun auch die Wii ihre Version von Will Wrights ambitioniertem Titel Spore. Unter dem Namen Spore Hero soll noch dieses Jahr ein Ableger des komplexen Genremixes für Nintendos Konsole erscheinen.
Das Spielprinzip soll sich allerdings wie bereits bei Spore Creatures (Nintendo DS) und Spore für das iPhone stark von dem der PC-Version (Test bei GameStar.de) unterscheiden. Inwiefern, können wir leider noch nicht sagen. Bisher konnten wir nur einen Trailer bei einer Electronic Arts-Veranstaltung sehen. Sobald dieser veröffentlich wird, findet ihr ihn natürlich hier auf GamePro.de
Für Nintendo DS erscheint ebenfalls noch Ende des Jahres ein neues Spore unter dem Titel Spore Hero Arena. In diesem sollt ihr eure Kreaturen gegeneinander antreten lassen können.
Mehr Details und erste Bilder zu Spore Hero und Spore Hero Arena demnächst an dieser Stelle
English Translated Article
After the PC, Nintendo DS and the iPhone will now also the Wii version of their ambitioniertem Will Wright title Spore. Under the name of spore Hero is this year an offshoot of the complex mix of genre Nintendo console.
The game principle is, however, as mentioned in Spore Creatures (Nintendo DS) and Spore for the iPhone heavily on the PC version (test at GameStar.de) differ. To what extent, we can not yet say. So far, we have only a trailer for a Electronic Arts-see event. Once this is published, you can find him on course here GamePro.de
For Nintendo DS will also be the end of the year, a new spore spore under the title Hero Arena. In this ye your creatures can compete.
More details and first pictures of spore and spore Hero Hero Arena soon at this point
UK Spore for Wii release date?
Jul 2nd
Currently, Spore for the Nintendo Wii has yet to earn a release date. However, some information popped up today thanks to GoNintendo of a possible date September 25 for the UK. Could it be true? I cannot really say at this point. Details on the Wii version has been very limited.
Spore Wii details
Feb 12th
Huge Nintendo fan here. This is going to be troublesome indeed. Not only will Spore be coming to PC, but I also have to look out for Spore for Wii as well as the DS. Luckily, the Spore release for Wii isn’t simultaneously released with the PC and DS version. Revogamers.net has interviewed Maxis Producer Caryl Shaw during the Spore Spain presentation. She noted that the Wii version is in in the design stage and that it won’t be the same as the PC version. Check out the article for more information.
RG: Ok, so we’ve been said that the Wii version is not coming at launch…
CS: Right.
RG: … so maybe it’s going to 2009?
April (EA PR): The Wii version, we have no date for it, so we have no idea. Just initial design stage. We love the Wii, but we’re not ready to announce anything yet.
CS: Will (Wright) loves the Wii. He plays the Wii more than any other. So I think as soon as we started talking about if we should make Spore on the Wii, he was like “Oh, let’s make Spore on the Wii!” He’s very excited about it. We’re very focused right know on making the best PC game that we can, so finishing the game that I showed you and making that be the game that “sums it all” and have people, you know, fall in love with that. And then wanna look at other platforms and make games more appropriate. I mean the DS game is different because the DS is a different platform, well like the Wii, and we all know how different the Wii is.
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