On the offchance someone will read my blog post, i'd like to share an upcoming game that really just looks incredible: Spore. You start out a little microorganism, then make your way up to a whole civilization... as you progress, the gameplay changes drastically, from a simple pac man style 2-D environment, to a diablo-ish 3rd person 3-D environment, to a tribal Populus-like game, to a SimCity kind of game, then to a Civilization kind of game. It just keeps growing and growing, but the real fun part (to me) seems like the prospect of being able to have full creative control of the environment and my creatures. If you want more information on it, go to http://spore.ea.com. There is also a 30 minute-long demonstrations, that's both amazing and entertaining, floating around out there. It's definitely worth checking out ^^