Spore Wins IGN’s Overall Best of E3 Award!

As if anyone here had any doubts about Spore taking home IGN’s award?

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.