The upcoming Spore expansion pack Galactic Adventures is on its way to store shelves, and in case you didn't know, it's the one that allows you to create your own in-game stories (galactic adventures, you might say) using its various creation tools. But besides making your own adventures for your private amusement, or to share with other players, this expansion will also come with pre-designed missions you can play through. Presumably, with the creation tools, you'll be able to develop your own tales, as funny or outrageous as you'd like.
To showcase that ability, Maxis has teamed up with the writers from the stop animation sketch comedy TV show Robot Chicken. 1UP loves the show, and it's admittedly a surprising collaboration, so they sent off some questions for writer and voice provider Dan Milano (who is also penning the Short Circuit remake) to ask him about this brush with videogame development.
The 2009 GameStooge Awards continue with the fourth part of the Awards – the Technical category that covers expansions, digital games, and the surprise games of 2009.
Winners:
Best Expansion: Fallout 3: Broken Steel
Best Digital Game (Original): Plants Vs. Zombies
Best Digital Game (Adaptation): Trials HD
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3: ODST
Best Game You Didn't Play: Dead Space Extraction
Best Surprise: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Stardock has released Impulse's Top 10 Sellers list for the week ending on January 9.
GP writes: "The sheer scale of Will Wright's vision for Spore was praiseworthy, even if the final product occasionally felt pinched and clipped.
In brief, Spore zoomed out from the microscopic to the telescopic in five phases as players evolved and nurtured a single celled organism representing a species into a space captain representing a galactic empire. Unfortunately, the first four phases played like a rambling prologue to the final galactic phase. But what it lacked in aspects of game-play it made up for in charm and creativity."
