Creatures 3

by Mindscape

Product Features

• Complex and interesting
• Great game

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001W0EA
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 27, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,393 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #4 in Software > Children's Software > Virtual Pets
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Good condition in original jewel case with art and/or inserts. No box or manual. Satisfaction guaranteed! Shipped within 24 hours (except weekends and holidays.) 3CD2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars!, December 10, 1999

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Napea (Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creatures 3 (CD-ROM)

Norns, the cute creatures you take care of, are artificial life. Creatures Labs has made the first (and only, so far) publicly released game like this. Norns have artificial brains they use to think for themselves, a bloodstream, digestive system and everything. All they do is their choice alone, not like a ramdomized list of things to do. They have a world to roam around in, can get disease, mate, have children and die. Each norn can speak to you, using their immense vocab. One, when it's hunger drive goes up, it'll find what it needs and announces it. "Alice hungry for starch." Norns can say if they hate, dislike, like, or love eachother and have their own distinct personalities. They take good care of themselves through trial and error, and can remember things that've happened to them. Creatures 3 is by far the best yet, at a great price... It's been very succesful, I strongly suggest you use a search engine and find out a little, as that's the best way. Or their site @ creatures.com. Anyway, this game has a HUGE world to explore with top-of-the-line graphics and great smoothness, quick installation for it's size(11 minutes or so and you're ready to go!) Also problems are non-existant, unlike C1 and 2 that crashed alot. This game is also highly addictive and never gets boring, you'll look forward to seeing your favorite norns and their families every day. Age probably ranges 11 and up just since it'd be too difficult for younger ages. Don't mistake this for a kids game, it's quite interesting and complex. Many people have been messing with norn genetics to make cool hybrids. (like highlanders, named after the movie. These norns live forever.)The world they're in is ever-evolving, you can play with all the little animals around them and the game is full of neat stuff to explore. If you're interested at all, GET IT. (sorry for this thing's length, I love the game so much I get carried away...)

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best game in the Creatures series!, January 1, 2000

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Mark Carroll (Middleofnowhere, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creatures 3 (CD-ROM)

This is one of the best games ever! If you are familiar with Creatures, Creatures 2, or Creatures Adventures, get this! It is the greatest Creatures game ever! There are five main "rooms" in all: the Norn terrarium, the bridge, the desert/Ettin terrarium, the aquatic (or "fish") terrarium, and the jungle/Grendle terrarium. Ettins will steal machinery, and Grendles will steal eggs, and kill Norns. Both can carry sicknesses. I suggest starting out with the Norn family. Also, the Grendle and Ettin eggs will not hatch if you place them in the Pirahna pond. There are two of each egg, and they will come out at different times. There are three types of Norns. Thwo have two names, one given by Cyberlife, and the other givin by thenewsreaders in alt.games.creatures . The names are: Civit/Cow (the reason is quite obvious), Bruin, adn Bengal/Tiger. My opinion, is that the Tiger Norns are the cutest, and hardiest. Some disadvantages are that the appelets are gone. It is harder to find out if your Norns are sick, inject them with helpful (or not so helpful, depending on how you play it) chemicals, and to veiw the chemicals in their bloodstream. The system requirements say at least 32 megs of RAM, and a 200mhz CPU, but I strongly suggest that you have at least 250mhz CPU and 64 megs of RAM. Otherwise, it will run very slowly with more than four Norns. Some little helpful bits about the game: ctrl + shift + w will take you to the wolfling control. There you can set the game to fast mode. F1 will bring up the "Helpful hand." Left click to teach a Norn a name to an object. Right click to get information on an object, such as interesting info on a robin, or the function of a peice of machinery. ctrl + shift + c will bring up the CAOS input box. CAOS means Creatures Agent Object Source. Here are examples of what you can do with it: Type "enum 2 24 4 attr 199 next endm" to make pickups pickupable, so you can take them to your Norns. Type "enum 2 24 1 attr 199 next endm" to make the stone of knowledge in the Grendle terrarium pickupable. Type "meta * 1 1 1" to go to a different room. Replace the * with numbers 0 to 9. Play around with that one, and you may find a few interesting places...

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Good and Bad of Creatures 3, May 8, 2001

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LCH in So Cal "LCH in So Cal" (California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Creatures 3 (CD-ROM)

I've just very recently bought Creatures 3 and there are some big differences in the system! First, the positives. The user-interface is SO much easier to use! You don't have to wait for your norn to discover new areas in order to explore the new wolrds. All you have to do is move your mouse left or right and you can scroll with ease! It also helps that you can now lead your norns to where you want them to go, instead of having to coax them to follow the hand. There's also lots to do in the world, like build machines that do things like detect pregnancies and so and, and you can now actually interact with Ettins (they're so neat, and have a lot more personality) and Grendles. The Norns are also smarter and have a much bigger voacbulary. The four echo-systems also have many new animals and plants that are fun to interact with, and the graphics are GREAT! Now for the bad news... Creatures 3 has completely eliminated the "kits". This makes it very difficult to know what's going on with your creature. You can't "see throught the creature's eyes" like you could in Creatures 2, and it's very hard to tell when they're sick, fertile, or what not. A lot of the new implements in C3 are kind of complicated, and take awhile to master. You also can't hatch one creature at a time, you get two instead, and the other thing is that the only facial expression they show is happiness. Overall? I have A LOT to do before I get even CLOSE to mastering this game (and I've owned C1 and C2!). The elimination of the kits make the game difficult, but a challange as well. C3 gives you lots of fun stuff to "tinker" with, and the graphics are absolutley wonderful. I'm very happy I bought this game, and I look forward to the challanges it presents. Hope this was helpful!