coolest game evar

I know this is floating around the net, so some of you may have seen it already, but if you haven't, go watch this gameplay demo of a new game coming out called Spore.

The video is long, but it will blow your hair back. You start at a multi-cellular organism level, floating around in goo. Each time it lays an egg, you get to evolve the next generation of creature, and the game creates behaviors based on the structure you decide on. It literally learns how to swim and walk and fight just from its attributes and skeleton.

You lead this creature all the way through its evolution, walking on land, hunting, creating cities, all the way to space technology. But it doesn't stop there, you can explore surrounding worlds. And here's the even crazier part, the world is populated by creatures that you've asynchronously downloaded from OTHER people playing the game. So you go to another city or planet, and there's some weird creature that I've created at some other time. And you get to decide to try to live with them, or fight them, or whatever.

The game is basically a sim-evolution, sim-universe megolith. Watch the video, it's unreal to see these things literally learn how to live before your eyes. They should have named the game "Playing God".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore