It's about time for Maxis to realese a new game not related to the sims although creation of the game has taken years in the making.

With this game you can tell it's had it's share of heavy graphics and coding since then if you saw the preview for the first game. A rough idea of the game if you haven't heard is that you start as a single cell organism that grows into this creature. You have a whole planet to yourself filled with other creatures your guys can eat to survive. As your world grows you have the option of moving to other plants to control them until your controlling 10+ planets.

It seems promising but only two issues came to mind before purchasing this game. Maxis is notorious for creating packages to "upgrade" the playing experience. Take for example the sims 2, in order to enjoy all the objects that are available you must buy all the expansion packs. In total there is over 20 of the damn things and say you download the game, 3 expansion packs, and 4 stuff packs but you found an older pack you would like to use. Well you buy it and install it which could cause a few bugs here or there OR uninstall everything and reinstall the games so they promise to function.

The second issue is that this game is heavy graphic and code oriented so you better hope your video card/ram and so on love you. Otherwise you will not beable to play and if you can and your graphics card is low you will lag. I've played the sims on my custom machine and I can just get away with a lag here and there. It doesn't happen much but it does happen.

Anyways I plan on buying the damn thing and trying it out after the rush. It looks promising but i'm not dropping any money into expansion packs if they come out, lol.