The US Presidential candidates....in space! (Sort of)

Posted Nov 1st 2008 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, RTS, Sandbox, Simulation, Strategy, Spore

We are now less than three days away from what is looking like one of the biggest, if not the biggest, US Presidential election turnouts in history. As a result, game companies are trying their best to exploit their titles to reflect "election mania" if you will. We've already reported on Mercenaries 2's plans to add Barack Obama and Sarah Palin as playable characters in an upcoming update (which the PC version will likely not get)

Now the Spore team at EA's Maxis studio have gone and created the images of all four of the nominees (Obama, Palin, John McCain and Joe Biden) in their alien evolution sim game. This are not creatures made in the creatures editor; these characters are actually custom spaceships made by the development team. You can download and fly around in the Space stage of the game as these folks via the Sporepedia on the game's official web site.

Gallery: Spore

Tags: barack-obama, ea, electronic-arts, joe-biden, john-mccain, sarah-palin, spore

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