Will Wright: Spore "roughly" six months away

Spore will release in roughly six months time, according to its creator Will "The Sims" Wright.

"We have the game fully playable at this point and it's in final testing", Wright said yesterday in an interview with Radio 5 Live.

Spore's an ambitious game, which he admits, that's essentially a life sim. Players start off as a single-cell organism and then create their species at every stage of its evolution - from its first steps on land through to tribes then a culture and then finally it's off to explore the galaxy.