Talking about Orson Welles moments...

Will Wright chose GDC to reveal his new game, Spore, an ambitious (to put it lightly) evolutionary simulation in which the player guides a lifeform from single cell pond lurker to advanced space-travelling civilisation. Wright compares the game to Wario Ware, due to its episodic structure, but is this 'best-of-every-genre-from-the-last-twenty-years' approach going to scare the crap out of mainstream gamers? The Sims succesfully refined the Sim City dynamic by sharpening the focus onto individuals. Spore zooms way out again. To continue the cinema analogy just a little too far, is this going to be Wright's Heaven's Gate? Intruiging stuff, though, and you certainly can't accuse the man of sitting on his laurels...