![]() Here's hoping it and other publishers see mobile as an increasingly viable way to do this too. Several years ago, EA's mobile boss at the time was floating the idea of downloading a FIFA player to your phone to train up using a mini-game, before re-importing them into the console version.Ĭonnectivity has been one stumbling block something that's gradually being solved with the wider proliferation of flat-rate data tariffs and handsets designed for, well, data connectivity.Īnd while Spore Creature Creator itself looks too technically and graphically complex to squeeze into a mobile app, many of the examples I listed earlier (cars, sport kits, scouting) could easily work.ĮA is one publisher clearly waking up to the general idea of an application that comes out before a main game. It seems such a logical thing to do, yet nobody's done it. Who knows, a clever bit of 'Try More Games' marketing within such an application might even get them to, well, try some mobile games too. What's more, this would finally give the hardcore players who sneer at mobile a reason to do something game-related on their phones. Meanwhile, us gamers get something to do in the long weeks leading up to a hot new game on another platform. The publisher gets a nifty way to build / capitalise on anticipation for the console game, or even generate some extra revenues. (Memo to Sega: I would happily pay a fiver for a full nerdtastic Football Manager app that lets me spend the month leading up to the PC release combing through lower-league players and free agents to build a shortlist. You'd do this in a mobile app, then upload the results to the publisher's server, ready to download to your console or PC when the main game comes out. You could be building monsters, creating an RPG party, tuning a car, scouting footballers, or designing a tennis kit even more retina-shredding than the lime-green effort Rafa Nadal wore at Queens last week. It's a cool and interesting thing to do.īut it got me thinking, why aren't mobile phones being used more for this kind of thing? Pre-release type applications that prepare you for a console or PC game's release, I mean. What's that? It's an app that EA is releasing in advance of Spore itself, which will allow people to design all manner of beasties ready to use in the main game later this year. ![]() No, the game itself hasn't slipped again, but the Spore Creature Creator application, which was due to launch today, is now coming out tomorrow. The creation aspect isn't freeform like Spore, but the actual gameplay is way better. It's an action-RPG where you 'level up' by going evolving new bits for your creature. for the SNES gets an honorable mention for being a great game with a similar theme. There was bad news this morning for gamers eagerly awaiting the release of EA's super-ambitious Spore. The Universim is a Spore-inspired game in early access right now. ![]()
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