Spore
The man that created Sim City is about to outdo himself. Will Wright wowed everyone at Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) with a new type of Sim game. It’s called Spore. It’s an evolution game. According to Wikipedia:
The player molds and guides a single-celled species across many generations, until it becomes intelligent, at which point the player begins molding and guiding a society into a spacefaring civilization. Spore’s main innovation, the basis of its scope and open-endedness, is that Wright has returned to procedural generation.
After watching a video Will Wright showing off the game, all I can say is “WOW”. The game isn’t expected to ship until 2007. Late 2006 if we’re lucky.