Today's most retrospective video: Spore's GDC 2005 unveiling

There is a lot, you were not even seeing a "game" when Spore was unveiled in 2005. You were seeing small iterations of what Will Wright had as an idea.

There procedural texturing, animations, pollination system, etc. was not even done....a game is not all about graphics. There is a lot of stuff you did not see, that just wasn't ready nor was it "fun."

Creature all the rules and content, bringing it together to create a cohesive experience could of taken quite a long long time. Spore is probably the most revolutionary game since Doom.

They wanted to make sure the gamer had hours and hours of gameplay