The following is a brief interview with Darkspore Executive Producer Mike Perry discussing how Spore’s Creature Creator inspired Maxis’ newest work, Darkspore:

In addition to the Darkspore’s single-player and co-op campaigns, MMO fans may be most interested to hear about Darkspore’s PvP arena-based combat system. Although PvP is separate from the game’s story mode, players will use the same heroes they’ve earned in the campaign to bring to the 1v1 or 2v2 battlefield.

According to Perry, Darkspore will use EA’s matchmaking system to pair up opponents in PvP. “It’s based on how many games you’ve won, how fast you’ve won them, the hero level of your characters, and so on,” he said.

Perry also hinted that there might be room to introduce more characters to Darkspore in the future. “We’ve built an infrastructure that allows us to do that. It’s a community that we really want to support. It’s definitely the kind of game that we can continue to add to,” he said.

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