EA spilled the goods on the “Tribal” stage of evolution in their upcoming game, Spore. As more about this game is released, I find my anticipation growing. It’s all well and good that once my creature has a tribe you can teach them to hunt and fish, but what really gets me hooked is the part about teaching them to steal from other tribes. If I’ve learned anything in life, it’s to wait for somebody else to invent something and then steal it from them. The full press release, as well as pictures can be found below.

This game sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than making another sequel to the Sims. Oh, right. Well, Will Wright has certainly piqued my interest with this, so stay tuned to Gamervision as more on Spore develops.

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The Spore Team presents the Tribal Stage, the third evolutionary stage in the Spore universe.  You begin the Tribal Stage as a small group of sentient creatures which have just discovered tools and have formed the first tribe on their planet.  Gather food with your tribe members by picking fruit, hunting or domesticating wild animals and fishing.  Your tribe runs on food buy tools with it, purchase tribal accessories with it, gift it to other tribes, steal it from other tribes, and (of course) feed your tribe with it.  Use different tools to befriend or attack neighboring tribes, aid in hunting and gatherting, or heal your tribe members.  Depending on how you played the Cell and Creature Stages, you will begin Tribal Stage with two of six super poswers at your disposal.  Defeat of ally with five trives to conquer the continent and form civilization!

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