Spore Creature Creator | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $9.99
New (5) Used (2) from $9.94
Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 265
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): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 15864
Model: 15864
UPC: 014633158649
EAN: 0014633158649
ASIN: B0017KWJ56
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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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 patternsâthis truly unprecedented level of flexibility lets you make a limitless number of fun creatures. Bring those creatures to lifeâsee 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 makingâand then pull them into your SPORE Creature Creator and play with them! What you create is entirely up to youâwith 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 toolsâmake your creature a star.
Creature Creator for SPORE
Spore, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Simsâ, 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 43 more reviews...
 An instant favorite September 29, 2008
EG
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.
Just plain fun for kids and adults September 20, 2008
Dave Millman (San Jose, CA USA)
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.
 Lackluster and problematic September 16, 2008
J. Thompson
My kids were really excited by the splashy advertising in the lead up to the full Spore. They decided to buy the game. They were really excited about it, for a day, but since then it has languished unused.
Besides that, we faced several installation issues. The game wouldn't run at all because of some interference with EA's download manager. After I uninstalled the download manager, it worked, but only arbitrarily on certain user accounts. Attempts to resolve the issue through customer support were initially supportive, but quickly devolved to the point where it was clear they weren't even reading my messages.
Decent game, BUT BEWARE DRM September 15, 2008
Justin A. Silvers
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First and foremost, THIS GAME HAS DRM.
What does this mean for you the consumer ? You are RENTING the game, you don't own the game.
As for gameplay, you can tell that the creators put a lot of time and effort into the creativity aspect of this game. It is quite enjoyable i found for the first few hours, however gameplay dulls after a bit of time(then again what game doesn't).
If i knew this game had DRM, i would not have bought it. Although the game is decent, with DRM it instantly loses it's replay value since you can only install it a few times.
If this game didn't have drm, i would have rated it 3 stars (as i did the fun aspect). Unfortantly this is not the case.
 You don't need to buy this since Spore contains the Creature Creator September 14, 2008
D. Nolasco (Bay Area, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I didn't give it a 1 star because I got it to work on my kid's system but it doesn't work on mine.
For some reason it keeps saying that I'm not online and can't verify the game. This really irks me because it only works on my kid's computer. I followed all the tips on EA's tech site but to no avail. They really need to do something that doesn't punish legit customers. According to several reports, the game is one of the most pirated games of all time--I guess EA got the opposite effect of what they wanted.
On a positive note, the Creature Creator really is a work of art. Please note that you don't need to buy the seperate Creature Creator if you get the full game Spore (which was my mistake). You can build almost any type of creature, vehicle, and building imaginable. The only thing missing that I wasn't able to find was the ability to customize the sound of your creature. On top of that, downloading new custom creatures is done through small 30kb PNG files. Even if Spore becomes a failure, I really hope the Creature Creator technology can be put to good use in all customizable games.
Without the DRM issue, I would give it 4 stars. It's probably worth 5, but I really see no reason to buy the standalone Creature Creator when the full game is out.
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