Tag : spore creature, creator

Company : Electronic Arts List Price : $9.99 Amazon Price : $7.68 Used Price : $9.00 Average customer review :

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

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.

Customer reviews

Demo for sale
While making creatures is fun, what you can do with your creature is quite limited. This is nothing more than a small demo of the game. I don’t recommend people paying for this and I am kind of upset it is being sold in the first place.

Download and try the free trial version off the official game site. It is stripped down so you have limited body parts and what not, but is essentially the same, and if you only spend 15 minutes messing around and feel like you’ve had enough you wont have wasted ten bucks.

Not just another toy
Spore Creature Creator

Spore from EA is one of the most anticipated games of the last few years. To appease the fans, EA has released a great teaser application, the Spore Creature Creator.

The creator isn’t just another take on an electronic Mr. Potato HeadMR. POTATO HEAD. The application allows the player to select from a wealth of features to form their creation. There are choices in several categories: head, arms/legs, senses, hands, feet, weapons, and an adornment type category.

Each body part brings it’s own plusses to the creature. More legs = more speed. More weapons = more attacks and more power behind them. More sensory choices brings with it more charm.

There’s a built in complexity limit. This limit caps out what you can add to the creature, though it does allow for the oddest things. One creature I created had six sets of legs. Of course one can add just as many eyes, ears, legs, or tails. So the limit won’t be likely to crimp even the craziest styles.

Once built, you can take your creature out for a spin. You’ll be able to watch a wide variety of animations, including dancing and punching. There’s even a mating call action.

So you’ve built your creature and that’s it right? Wrong. The Spore Creature Creator allows you to upload and share your creatures. Still shots can be emailed to friends, movies uploaded to YouTube and creatures shared on the Spore sight. There other Spore users can vote and comment on them.

I highly recommend this game, especially for $10.

‘Intelligent Design’ never looked less stupid.
This is not a full game as such, purely a part of the upcoming SPORE release.

Others have commented on how much fun and how easy it is to create magnificently rendered monsters and creatures. What is particularly impressive is how the creature moves and reacts in quite a realistic manner based on the limbs and attachments that you give it.

What is even more amazing is that all of the user content created and uploaded to the SPORE server can potentially be used to populate the worlds that your creatures will inhabit once you get started with the full game.

If you are looking forward to the full SPORE release then you owe it to the SPOREverse to start creating and uploading now.

If $10 is too much then download the free trial version, it’s fully functional you just get 25% of the available body parts to play with.

Amazing…and just a preview of things to come…
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…

Creature Creature is fun!!
I run a blog site and got a full copy of the Creature Creation from EA games 5 days ago and I’ve been playing every day since. It’s easy to use and hours of fun.

You start with a blob that has a spine. You can manipulate it into different shapes and add arms.legs and other body parts to make it unique. Each body part can be made bigger and smaller and distorted. After your creation is done, you can paint it with choices in the paint section, either use a pre-selected paint pattern or make your own with the 3 layers of choices. You can test drive your creation with the emotions and actions plus take photos and video. The video can be uploaded directly into YouTube from inside the game. Send your friends some post cards!

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One more thing, see the yellow creature with the arm on its back, half way down the page? That was my concept creature that Maxis liked and recreated in the game.