Spore Creature Creator | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $9.95
You Save: $0.04
New (3) Used (1) from $8.99
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 64
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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 33 more reviews...
 Buyer Beware! The DRM system is BUGGY too - it won't run at all! July 7, 2008
H. Rivers (Cambridge, MA USA)
78 out of 90 found this review helpful
Buyer beware. I bought a perfectly legitimate version of this product to run on my Mac. I installed it, while my kids sat by my side anxiously waiting to play. Then I typed in the license code and it said that I had already installed it too many times. What the?!? I had just unwrapped the plastic - how can it be installed anywhere?! The game won't run, stubbornly saying that I've already installed the license somewhere else. Well, I haven't.
I've been contacting EA's customer support for over a week and they tell me that obviously I've already installed it too many times. Their fabulous DRM system is BUGGY and they don't seem to know it. I can't get anyone on the phone from EA (no phone number exists), their support people take days to respond, and they're useless when they do. I had to resort to withholding credit card payment from them. It's ridiculous.
I'd love to be able to tell you how the game is, but it won't run. Buyer Beware!
Will not buy July 23, 2008
Eric C. Erickson (Washington, DC United States)
49 out of 52 found this review helpful
I was very much looking forward to this game, but when I discovered SecuROM, I decided that I cannot have EA invading my computer.
Until media enterprises stop treating customers as enemies, they will see their sales plummet. For every pirate they block, they alienate a dozen legitimate customers.
 Amazing...and just a preview of things to come... June 18, 2008
D. Craig (Buena Park, CA USA)
26 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...
Demo for sale June 20, 2008
Seth Schultz (Easthampton, MA United States)
25 out of 52 found this review helpful
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.
Requires Internet access July 31, 2008
Pete R.
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
Nowhere on the purchase page does it state that you need internet access on the computer where you intend to install this game. My son doesn't have internet access at his home. At least I know now to cancel the Spore preorder.
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