I'm trying, but I really can't get excited about this. I know that everyone's creaming their freaking jeans over it, but it just looks really overhyped to me. Until I get a sense of some of the goals in the game other than "eat a few things, lay an egg and design a new creature in the editor, evolve sentience, war with other cities, go into space, fuck around with no real goal" I'm not really gonna be sold on its lasting appeal.
On that note, I'm getting really sick of all these "ultimate developers!" releasing some stupid concept game and everyone going gaga for it, then it turning out to be shit. Remember Fable? It was supposed to be awesome. Supposed to "usher in a new era in RPGs" or some shit. Then it came out and I never fucking heard of it again.
I don't like geting excited over games unless I can see something worth getting excited about, and Spore doesn't really fit that category, unfortunately. I mean, the idea and the underlying game mechanics seem good, but there's just not enough meat there to warrant "the greatest game evar!" to me.