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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land For those of you that longed to take your Spore: Origins creature onto dry land for the next step in the evolutionary process, this iPhone game is for you.
EA Mobile Associate Producer Mike Pagano is a good panel speaker to have right after lunch — he’s very loud, very animated and likes to swear a lot.
Spore Origins is a nifty little mobile take on the expansive Spore, but few may realise there is actually a special multiplayer edition of Spore Origins avaiiable that lets you and your multi-cellular fighting fish take on other real people in a global primordial ocean.
If you’re on Telstra, you may have already realised all this, but if not it’s certainly added reason to grab a copy of the mobile game. It’s a rare beast to get some MP game on with a mobile, and facing user created beasties should certainly add plenty of long-term value.
Grab Spore Origins Connected Edition on a Telstra mobile for $7.00. It may not be reason enough to churn, but it does give Telstra phone users at least one reason to get a little smug grin.
I had only so much time to spend ogling iPhone games at EA’s Showcase – but really, what’s the point of a mobile game if you can’t experience it on the fly? So, in one whirlwind tour, I took in Spore, Scrabble Bonjour, Sudoku and Tetris and now I’m regurgitating for you everything I can remember from the brief blitz.
The most amazing iPhone game at the EA Showcase was Spore Origins – even if it hadn’t been up against such visually uninteresting things as Scrabble and Sudoku.
Set to release at the same time as the PC version of Spore, it might be a while before we see the final product. But this primordial version looks mighty good and I had a fun time tilting the iPhone this way and that to guide my single-celled organism through a sea of sperm-shaped DNA thingies. Eating these things filled up my DNA meter and when I was at full, the level ended and I could spend the DNA points on upgrading my microbe. While not as detailed as the Creature Creator, it’s just as addictive on the iPhone to pinch and stretch your creature’s spine into different shapes while adding multicoloured coats of paint (er, skin).
