But you're in their company - or that of their creations, at any rate - every step of the way, and it's a profoundly social game.
At no point in Spore do you compete or co-operate with other players. This is an entirely solo, yet massively multiplayer experience. 'Will really wanted to make a single-player MMO.' With this blunt and baffling statement, producer Thomas Vu sums up the last, most remarkable thing of the many remarkable things about Spore.
