Although last year Electronic Arts earned $3.6 billion in annual revenue churning out safe titles like Madden NFL 08, lately it has hit a creative and financial dead end. Now that Wright’s game was finally released on September 7, his company’s titanic parent, Electronic Arts, will discover if Spore is 2001 or Waterworld. The harsh spotlight even earned Wright’s divorce a mention in the staid pages of The New Yorker where he was portrayed as an obsessive, distant modeler, but not a model husband. Today, some of those same journalists seem to be seeking retribution. The often-fawning gaming press long ago bestowed upon Spore no fewer than seven Game Critics Awards like Best Original Game, only to endure embarrassment when the product didn’t actually ship. But it was repeatedly delayed, and development costs are believed to have soared to at least $50 million. Spore was announced in 2005 for release the following year. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” add still others. “I thought this game already came out,” says more than one passerby. Spore creator and designer Will Wright is the Walt Disney of gaming - his company’s Da Vinci or Kubrick. Those industry types have bookmarked a lecture from Spore‘s makers later this afternoon, because even to them, what Maxis studios of Emeryville has done is ostensibly magic. Under the hood, games like Crysis are a yawn to the people who make them. But over in the next booth, it’s the rote shooter game Crysis drawing fanboy “oohs” and “ahhs” for its twitchy graphics. Spore is supposed to be the most artistically dazzling and technologically sophisticated game ever released.
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Caryl Shaw, Kate Compton, and Lucy Bradshaw of Maxis, who will have their hands full in the coming weeks.A player test drives the Creature Creator at the San Jose Convention center.The video game Spore allows players to create creatures that evolve from single-celled organisms to planetary leaders.Will Wright demos Spore at a trade show.“Yeah, make a Dildo-saurus.” They walk away from Booth 411 swilling a BAWLS energy drink and laughing. “Ha ha, I think I’ll make a Penis Erectus,” one such kid says to his friend. Here at the San Jose Convention Center in late August, for every awestruck gamer mumbling “cool” as he fiddles with a mouse and keyboard, there is another kid behind him watching and snickering.
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The year’s most-anticipated new PC game - Spore - is getting publicly dissed by the in-crowd just days before its release.
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