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Magazine article

The newest issue of the British Total PC Gaming magazine had a long, decriptive article about Spore, based on their experiences while testing it, and a short interview with a developer, Thomas Vu.
There is new, valuable info in it, including the possible length of the stages, and a report about the development status.
We post the scans for those who don't have a chance to buy it(for example living in another country), but if you can, buy the full magazine, it is better:
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1. Teh Guest - Mar 31, 2008 04:26 AM
That's bad. I wanted to make a fleet and conquer the galaxy with it, like Star Wars
2. Alterego - Mar 27, 2008 10:12 AM
You can't have multiple UFOs, because you are the UFO. But you can ask your allies to follow you.
3. Mulligan11 - Mar 26, 2008 07:26 PM
Every screenshot/demo they've shown has had just a single UFO. No space fleets. It's a shame. Hopefully it'll happen in an expansion.
4. Lord Henry II - Mar 26, 2008 04:57 PM
this gets me wondering...would it be possible to let us cotrol more then one space ship in the final stage. Because so far no one has ever mentioned about it; that I have hear of at least
5. Seb - Mar 26, 2008 03:26 PM
spore
6. Mopartex - Mar 26, 2008 10:35 AM
Funny how someone could call someone " A cultural bigot" and then us the phrase " something stupid and gay like that" all in the same post. This game being about evolution and all makes me wonder about how some of these tribes will turn out.
7. Mopartex - Mar 26, 2008 10:32 AM
8. Mulligan11 - Mar 25, 2008 08:27 PM
I totally missed the "flange-face and his army of winky-creature" comment the first time around. I'm so happy that that's how it's going to work, because I was worried I'd get stuck with that stuff on my planet. I have one. I don't need to see anyone else's.
9. Mudd - Mar 25, 2008 06:18 PM
Anyone else notice that in several of the pictures there is snow on the ground? The same creatures are in a picture looking like the creature stage with green grass but in the tribal pics they seem to be in snow.
10. Mudd - Mar 25, 2008 05:56 PM
I don't think that other creatures go to the tribal phase with you. I think what happens is that the more social you are with other creatures you get benifits from it in the tribal stage. Such as in the picture there were several types of creatures in the "taming pen" so they were probably easy to tame because they were friends from the previous phase. And taming them probably produces a stready stream of food so you don't have to rely on hunting food and its risks. Though I hope there is more to taming other creatures than that.
11. Rone - Mar 25, 2008 04:45 PM
From what I've read I think I'll enjoy the creature and tribal stages the best, the cell and civ stages the least, and the space stage in the middle...
12. moranguita - Mar 25, 2008 08:03 AM
UFO Phase --> Lovely freedom!!
13. george9807 - Mar 25, 2008 07:49 AM
Forget the last comment ive found out now lol!
14. george9807 - Mar 25, 2008 07:47 AM
Anyone no what the equivilent Nvidea card is to the Radeon 7900 GT card they said about in page 3 of the mag??? thanx! cant wait for game now!!!
15. space eagle - Mar 24, 2008 11:15 PM
wow. i like the idea of giant holograms but i dont want to play as a religious group. i want a war type species so that nobody f***s around with me lol. cool idea being able to meet other creatures you've made. i think that'll be one of my goals. find my other creatures. where's waldo? :P
16. Crxss - Mar 24, 2008 10:34 PM
MatchNL, British people spell certain words differently then Americans do. Just because they spell color as colour, doesn't mean it's an incorrect spelling. You're not as smart as you think you are, take it easy.
17. blazednlovinit - Mar 24, 2008 10:28 PM
MatchNL - you are a cultural bigot. Just because Americans spell everything with a "Z" doesn't mean you're right to spell that way. Surely our form of English is more correct than any other form... oh yeah good article, i'll be sure to buy this magazine. Glad to see the "object" of the creature phase is to upgrade your brain again, they changed it to "making 5 friends" or something stupid and gay like that a while ago. Also implies that other creatures will go to tribal phase as well as yours, which i didn't know until now.
18. Mudd - Mar 24, 2008 09:48 PM
In some of the videos and screen shots they show the electrical attack from the tidepool stage. I wondered about it for a long time. It would make sense that it would be in the creature stage too. You can play as the single cell organism (more or less) after you "evolve" onto land. That part might just become the same as the spitter though or something like that.
19. Spore+Delay=Bad - Mar 24, 2008 08:49 PM
Did he mention in page i think 7 that there are other tribes still around your planet even when your in civ phase? i thought will said that wouldn't happen.
20. Black-Light - Mar 24, 2008 07:58 PM
On page 6 they say you can give them electic attacks on the tadpol stage. . .I wonder if you can do that at the creature stage.
21. Stonegolem - Mar 24, 2008 04:05 PM
It's an English magazine, it's obviously different to the American or whatever spelling. Also, people DO make mistakes you know.
22. AKAfreaky - Mar 24, 2008 02:19 PM
Civilisation is the English spelling
23. MatchNL - Mar 24, 2008 12:38 PM
I'm glad they put so much effort into this article that they couldn't even take time out to spell check it. It's Civilization, not civilisation (which is written in BOLD). They also use the incorrect form of 'to' as 'too' among other minor errors. I can understand issues with spelling and grammar on forums or comment posts since most of the people posting are either foreign to the English language, 12 yrs old, or both, but this is a sign of being unprofessional when it's your JOB to know how to write.
24. Sporemonsters - Mar 24, 2008 12:22 PM
The thing about "subscribing to sporepedia".... does that mean its going to cost money to subscribe? I really hope not.....or if they do, it needs to be really cheep, like $5 a month.
25. kingtigar - Mar 24, 2008 10:17 AM
and btw, I will lead my shlong spawn to victory! so watch out o0.
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