Has anyone seen this site?

http://www.planetspore.co.uk/information.php

This seems to have all of the information about Spore prerelease. What a disappointment Spore is in comparison. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game, but read what the originally planned. Also they coded some of this too and seemingly threw it out.

Check out each phase.

notice the pictures. In the pictures, we can change the shape of the cells in the cell creator.

Yeah, so? You still can. And there's already been lots of threads on this.

Those were demos. Tech demos to be specific. Tech demos aren't designed to be fun, playable, games. They're like sketchs; something to show what you want to do and try out things without having to worry about function, form, or anything else. They're there to show concept; "We want to try this."

If you want what Spore -actually- was in development, look at the prototypes on the Spore website. -THAT- is what the game looked like in development. Those things are what happens after the conceptual stages are done.

Tech demos aren't promises either. They're not even really for the media or the public; they're something you show to fellow industry folk in the same way scientists share research papers.

It's like text cars and test planes. What's built is built just to run and try things out. Most of them never get to production; what few do are changed to actually be consumer products and all the other models have the good stuff taken and integrated into other things.

Doesn't these specs seem much better then the game. Sure they are unfinished, but the ideas seem to be much better.

I don't really see what's so different...can you point some things out?

sure. We can change the shape of the cells by adding arm like parts. Look at the picture of the cell editor.

we can choose to increase the brain in the creature creator, or not. But also we have to protect our egg after we mate. Once we evolve into something else we have to survive as a child and grow larger.

it also seems like we can control the vehicles in the civ stage as though we were driving them. Although, this doesn't seem to do anything useful.