Since he’s shown off the creature phase of the game at various events before, Wright was keen to jump right into the civilization phase. Here, his creatures had already developed intelligence and built a civilization — he was now competing with other civilizations in order to dominate and unify the planet. Wright loaded up a saved game where he was already very advanced.

Wright described the civilization phase as “an interesting blend of a very simple SimCity and a very simple Civilization.” You could build and rearrange individual buildings in your cities (as with everything else in Spore, you can design or download your own buildings). Or you could focus on assaulting other cities spanning the globe.

In any other year, Empire: Total War or Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II would have easily taken this award. Both are examples of two of the genre’s finest developers at the top of their game. However, 2008 is the year of Spore, the long-awaited next game from Will Wright, and the game that fascinates us in so many ways. And it’s not just because we’re all waiting to see if the game can achieve the same kind of wild success as The Sims, but because of how different it is from any other title out there.
Spore blends so many different forms of gameplay, from arcade games to real-time strategy, action games, and even city-building. Then there’s the incredible amount of user-generated content and the way it is seamlessly shared between everyone who plays the game. In an industry that’s built around cloning hits, it’s safe to say that there hasn’t been anything remotely like Spore before, and that’s just one of the many reasons it intrigues us so.

Adios.

• Hiro from Heroes
• Mandy Moore - Singer/Actress
• Sharon Osbourne - Wife of Ozzy
• Phil Defranco, the funny youtube guy
• Benjamin Mackenzie from the OC (not that I ever watched that show..)
• Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox
• MC Hammer - yes, he’s back!
• Mario Lopez from Saved by the Bell and so you think you can dance
• Patrick Harris from How I met your mother
• Flight of the Conchords
• Brooke Hogan, the daughter of Hulk Hogan
• Will Wright - I think he has an unfair advantage in this competition..
• Mark Cuban, the megalomaniac owner of the Dallas Mavericks (I’m just joking, he’s actually seems pretty cool)
• Christopher Titus - I remember him from his funny but short lived comedy show ‘Titus’.
• Margaret Cho - a comedian

• (Picture) Xbox Controller - Yeah, you heard me!
• Fake Sailer - The most creative creature I’ve seen so far - very neat!
• Pikachu - Great render of Pokemon’s most famous creature
• Charizard - Another great Pokemon render
• Deep crow - a very detailed, high quality creature. Probably my favorite so far.
• Human-like creature - it’s hard to do and this is one of the best attempts at creating a humanoid creature. That said, it really walks funny.
• Minotaur - very well done beast of a creature
• Bizarre Creature - don’t even ask me what this is suppose to be…