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Spore Creature Creator (Mac/PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £4.99
Buy New: £4.74
You Save: £0.25 (5%)
New (3) Used (2) from £4.74
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: world-builder-strategy-games
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930068301
ASIN: B001B8XIUY
Release Date: June 27, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Still sealed!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 A fiver's worth of fun June 25, 2008
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I don't care that this will be part of the main game to come - I'd hate to be so mean that I wouldn't buy this now because it's so much fun. The building system is very easy and right from the earliest components you add, the creature reacts to the building process (start with the mouth - that way you get 'comments' as you go along). Your creature shows its pleasure at the way you build it and this makes the urge to be creative really strong. There are seemingly infinite adjustments to each part you add and an enormous colour palette to choose from when you come to the painting stage. What really got me hooked, though, is the testing stage, when you find out how your creature moves, reacts...and dances. You can also blow a whistle to attract its attention to make it look at you. Best of all is the ability to hatch out up to three babies, who then attempt to recreate the movements of the adult, eventually, after mistaken efforts, moving in synch. All this can be recorded as still pictures or videos if you are so minded. A wonderful bargain - if you have nostalgic memories of plasticine (it's over fifty years since I last used it) you'll love it. It isn't a game, but it's not meant to be. It's a way of having fun. It can be used by fairly young children, who won't be buying the actual game anyway, so it's perfectly acceptable as a stand-alone product. I'm very pleased that EA has released this separately; I shall probably buy the game when it comes out, but I'll get plenty of use from this until then and pass it on to a young relative to have fun with.
I can't wait. June 23, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
The creature creator is great, its much better than the free downloadable version as ther eare more parts available to create with and also i have not encountered any problems with this version ( i did with the free version, it froze upon saving, and failed to save) I can't wait for the full version of the game to come out in september :)
Basicly this is free software August 12, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I suggest everyone who thinks that if they buy this they are buying a demo I urge you all to read the product information for the full spore game preorder with amazon.
heres the bit thats interesting:
"Buy Spore Creature Creator with us at Amazon.co.uk and get 5 off Spore."
Now notice that creature creator costs 4.99 Yep thats right, if you decide to buy the full game your amazon will basicly pay you a penny and give you a free disk.
Best deal this year.
 Note, this is not the actual Spore game! June 21, 2008
35 out of 39 found this review helpful
I just thought I should warn anybody who is potentially confused that this is not the main Spore game. This is an additional kit that lets you design creatures without following the gradual progression involved with the main game. You can import creatures made by Creature Creator into the main Spore game if you own it. But you cannot play with the creatures you make with just this kit on its own. I know 99% of people will already know this, but there is room for confusion.
That said, Creature Creator is good fun. The design system in Spore is amazing. Constructing creatures is as simple as if you were using modelling clay. What amazes me is the freedom you have. You shape the creature's spine, drag limbs to any part of the body and shape them, add other parts and shape those too. The game rarely limits where you can attach things, so if you want you could have a creature that hangs below its legs, with its mouth on it's rear and eyes on it's stomach, or even more bizzare! It's not just a matter of choosing what combination of limbs you want, pretty much every aspect of the creature is controlled by you.
Yet amazingly you don't have to tell the game what moves where: the game animates the movements of even the most unusual creatures. On rare occasions I've had some animations that look a bit unusual, but even these are easily resolved (eg. just thin that part of the body, or move the arms a bit further from the head etc.).
But overall, I would simply suggest that you get the main Spore game (which of course lets you build creatures anyway) and buy this as an extra if you are particularly taken by the creativity aspect. I definitely wouldn't buy creature creator on its own.
Hours of fun...for little ones as well as grown ups! June 26, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
First of all, as already stated it is important to note that this is NOT the full version of Spore - it is just the creature creation part. I understand that people might feel slightly ripped off that this costs a fiver, but there IS a free demo out there that you could settle for until the full game is out in September. I tried out the demo with my two children, (4 and 2 1/2), and we were all totally hooked. Therefore we decided to buy this to get more parts to play with in the hope that it'll keep us happy until the real release date!
To start with you get a randomly generated body section, (which you can change the shape, height etc of), and then you've got a series of grouped body parts which you can add on...just about wherever your imagination wants. The creations that you come up with can range from the terrifying to the totally hilarious, and everything in between! The creature seems to cope fairly effortlessly with whatever body parts we throw at it and test driving it - seeing it running, flipping, dancing(!) is really cool.
For those with little ones this can be a great game. It is all controlled with the mouse so, if your child is relatively proficient with mouse control, (particularly drag and drop), then they should have few problems. My two are absolutely hooked and love creating all sorts of monstrosities and then painting them in day-glo colour schemes. That said, my four year old would now like to be able to take his creatures roaming instead of them being stuck inside a small circle as they are in this game...so I'm not sure if this will hold his interest for more than a week or two. Still, even for the hours of fun that we've already had I'd say it's well worth the money!
Roll on September...
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