Spore Creature Creator

by Electronic Arts

Product 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 Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0017KWJ56
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #6,079 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

  #28 in	Video Games > PC Games > Simulation > Life
  #8 in	Video Games > Mac Games > Simulation > Life

Product Description

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.	Create Your Creature View Image Paint with Unique Textures View Image

Product Description

SPORE Creature Creator is a powerful yet easy-to-use creation tool that anyone with a PC or Mac 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

166 of 191 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware! The DRM system is BUGGY too - it won't run at all!, July 7, 2008

By	H. Rivers "mom & nerd" (MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Spore Creature Creator (CD-ROM)

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!

----------- Update to my review (1 year later)
We finally got EA to talk to us and give us a new license for the software, about 6 weeks after buying it. They treated me as if I were clearly a software thief the whole time, which I really did not enjoy.

On the other hand, both my kids have enjoyed building creatures and watching them dance, sing, play. Of course the Creature Creator alone doesn't actually have a game - you just make creatures. So the fun fades pretty quickly. On the whole, not a game I'd buy again.

62 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Requires Internet access, July 30, 2008

By	Pete R. - See all my reviews

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spore Creature Creator (CD-ROM)

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.

43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware!, August 10, 2008

By	cooking lady (NY) - See all my reviews

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Spore Creature Creator (CD-ROM)

EA can't manage even to produce a decent demo (that they make you pay for!). We bought the full demo to pass the time on a rainy vacation. My kids anxiously watched my try to install it. Emphasis on try. The thing didn't work. I tried 2 different operating systems on computers that met all the required specs. I scoured the net for advice. I followed all the advice and tips I found, changed files in the game, uninstalled the EA download manager... the game still freezes and crashes to desktop. All creatures lost, nothing saves. No way on earth will I buy the full version of this game until I can get some guarantee that it will actually run. I'm very disappointed in EA.