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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $9.95
You Save: $0.04
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 186
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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| Editorial Reviews:
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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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Excited August 16, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Even though it was just a preview of the game, it really showed the time that's been going into the final product: Spore. The level of customization is amazing. A good deal more than a million different creatures have already been created by players of this game. The interface is very user-friendly, and I can tell that Spore is going to have great game-play and graphics.
$10 worth of fun? I think so! August 13, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
We tried to put this program on our Mac first, and it didn't work. So we tried it on my XP-running PC. There was no problem installing it there, and it was amazing how quickly we started creating creatures, we being myself and my 12-year-old daughter.
You decide what qualities you want your creature to have, and you're given choices of limbs and extras to give your creature those characteristics. Add wings, and your character can glide. Add a spikey tail, and watch your character's attack points go up. Add armor parts to make your character's health go up. You can then watch your character attack, dance hip hop, swoon with love and more. It's so much fun!
I suspect this will probably get about 30 hours of play before my daughter gets bored of it, but 30 hours of entertainment for $[...] isn't bad at all. I'm not sure if she'll ever play with her characters online (we don't approve of violent video games), but that's fine with us. Spore Creature Creator is loads of fun on its own.
Seriously, this is worth the $[...] if you have a creative teen or tween.
 It didn't work. August 13, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I saw a video of this product that made it look easy and fun so I ordered it. It would never install and the support on the Spore site did not address the issue. So I had to return it.
Too bad.
 EA kinna kills it August 13, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
It is a fun tool and great toy for anyone who likes computer animation. The creatures created are a lot of fun and finding new ways to use parts and colors is a challenge to keep you busy for quite some time to come.
That said, EA kinna kills it.
There is as of today in game advertising. This is not mentioned on any box or information sheet. The AT&T advert even makes it difficult to see things in the Sporepedia. It also drops in doubleclick and atdmt scripts and tracking cookies on ya. Or it tries to if you let it. This was done after the product was demonstrated in the trade shows publicly.
The game has bugs that have not been addressed since start and the forums are a barely moderated mess. Seems the main plan was to get adverts going less than a month away more than fixing bugs. Enough time to test the adverts but not enough time for most pre-order people to be notified.
If folks were warned ahead of time of in game advertising, spyware loaded onto your system via part of the website, and the general lack of EA assistance. I doubt many would have purchased this or pre-ordered Spore. The fact they waited to show it off at trade shows then bait and switch is hard to swallow.
There are Customer service issues abound. A number of mistaken bans, banning the person who reported a unsuitable item rather than the offender. Folks with DRM trouble having to wait over a week for a new code, and only after asking for it a few times. No real support with any bugs other than some user discovered workarounds.
Generally a mess an a half. Nice program. Shame about any support except unwanted and unwarranted additions.
Buyer Beware! August 11, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
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