Spore Creature Creator | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $9.88
You Save: $0.11 (1%)
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 647
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Creature Creator
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15864
Model: 15864
UPC: 014633158649
EAN: 0014633158649
ASIN: B0017KWJ56
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Build using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction? | | • | Paint with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd | | • | Play with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions | | • | Share using built-in snapshot and video tools—make your creature a star. | | • | Plays on both PC and Mac |
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Product Description
This is not the game. It lets you create characters for the game. Game is expected to be released at a later date.
Amazon.com
Design Your SPORE Creature SPORE Creature Creator is a powerful yet easy-to-use creation tool that anyone with a PC and a mouse can enjoy. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, you can assemble your creature from a wide range of parts. How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? Pull and stretch those parts exactly as you choose, then paint your creature with unique colors and patterns?this truly unprecedented level of flexibility lets you make a limitless number of fun creatures. Bring those creatures to life?see how they dance, strike a pose, and much more. In just a few minutes, anyone can easily make incredible animated creatures. You can share your favorites with friends using simple built-in tools, then visit the SPORE website and look at all the other cool creatures your friends and people all around the world are making?and then pull them into your SPORE Creature Creator and play with them! What you create is entirely up to you?with SPORE, the only limit is your imagination. |
 | Key Features
- BUILD using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction?
- PAINT with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd
- PLAY with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions
- SHARE using built-in snapshot and video tools?make your creature a star.
Creature Creator for SPORE
Spore, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims?, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Just plain fun for kids and adults September 20, 2008
Dave Millman (San Jose, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 10-year-old daughter bought this with her own funds about 6 weeks ago for use on a MacBook. SInce then we've had great fun creating creatures, both images of our pets and fantastic fictional animals. We have had none of the issues reported by other users, perhaps because our computer is new and runs OSX 10.5.
Fun game: one person creates a creature that looks like a specific pet or other known animal, and everyone else guesses who it is. We've done all the dogs in the house, plus the lizard, newts, rabbits and salamanders. We're moving on to neighborhood pets next.
I've decided to buy Spore, and look forward to importing our creatures into that game.
An instant favorite September 29, 2008
EG
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 10-year-old received Spore for her birthday and became instantly hooked. It allows her to use her creativity, as well as indulge her love of science. She had no problem learning how to use the software and was able to start making creatures right away.
it's awesome! November 3, 2008
Maria A. Martin (Oregon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played it. It was the best game in the whole world. The reason I gave it 5 stars is because its fun and creative and you can make your own creatures.
The hours will waste away June 23, 2008
J. Black (Panama City, FL)
10 out of 20 found this review helpful
I know that some people are troubled about paying $10 for the "prelude" to what is sure to be an amazing game. But even this little nugget of the real game can offer hours and hours of fun. So it's definitely worth the sticker price. The coolest thing though is knowing that the creatures you make are actually going to populate the final game... well as long as you don't make them look like genitals anyway.
Amazing...and just a preview of things to come... June 18, 2008
D. Craig (Buena Park, CA USA)
21 out of 41 found this review helpful
The Spore Creature Creator is a very interesting piece of software on a number of levels. It is a very entertaining program allowing the user to create a wide variety of creatures by dragging and dropping elements into a build screen. It is also a way to jump-start the online set of creatures that will populate the upcoming Spore game (which will be released in September). Finally, it is a very clever marketing tool that will build interest in the complete Spore game.
The Creature Creator is priced ($10) as an impulse buy. Once installed, it is very easy to use and sports a well done and intuitive interface. Creatures are created by dragging and sizing body parts from a menu. The simplicity of the interface will make this a hit with kids.
In addition, as you add body parts the Creature being built reacts (for example, when you add eyes it looks around and makes a happy sound and when you add legs it dances!). This kind of feedback adds to the fun.
Once you have created your Creature you can put it through its paces by walking it around a limited area, having it do some simple tricks (sit, flip, etc.) and other things. You can also snap pictures and make movies of your creature and save these on your system.
However, the real fun is registering your copy of Creature Creator online so your own Creatures can be shared. You can upload your own Creatures and download Creatures made by other people. (You can even automatically upload your Creature Movies to YouTube).
The Creature Creator is not a complete game like the Sims, but it is only $10. Perhaps the most effective aspect to Creature Creature is engendering a desire to get the full Spore game.
If this is just one part of the full game then I suspect Spore will be a massive hit. If Spore lives up to the promised feature list you will be able to create and share not only Creatures but entire Worlds.
Make sure you don't get a copy of Creature Creator on a Monday or Tuesday because you will be tempted to blow off work for the rest of the week so you can play...
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