Actiontrip was present in Leipzig and had a chance to play the game. Fortunately for us, they whipped up a
report of what they saw. Here's a blurb from the article:
Getting passed the initial stage of growing your creature, then growing its civilization and finally, grooming the entire damn planet, the players will take off into space with their little space ship. Spore is vast in that sense. It literally has hundreds of stars and different planets on them, and if you take into account the fact that each planet might have creatures created by some highly creative guy somewhere at the other end of the world (planet Earth mind you), it's easy to figure out why Maxis is calling Spore their "massively single-player game."Source: Bluesnews