The Eyes Of A Spectator

The Creature Creator at least.

Spore has been in production for a long time now, a very long time. I've been following it for almost 3 to 4 years for as much as I can remember. It's not that hyped, but the game looks very very promising. For those who don't know about Spore, it's a "God" Game, which allows you to pretty much create any creature you want, its your imagination put into a game.

If you already don't know about Spore, there are many youtube videos on the game, and a lot of fan sites as well. This game wouldn't matter much to you if you weren't a gamer, but its a game pretty much for anyone. I'm not going to explain all about the game, because you could easily find out what it's about on many different sites. So I'll just put up a little mini-detail on what the Spore Creature Creator allows you to do.

So far, the creator was released officially on June the 17th for Windows, however was leaked on the 16th, not that big of a deal. Then on the 18th it came out for Mac, which made me very happy, because I own a Mac, and don't have a Windows computer. Currently, there is no Linux version, I doubt there will be, but you never know.

If you want to download the demo/trial version, you can get it at www.spore.com. There's a link that will bring you to the download link, or the store where the full version can be bought for 10 dollars.

Here We Go.

What It Is.
The creature creator gives you many options and variations of eyes, mouths, limbs, feet, arms, weapons, and details to add on to your creature. There are very few limits to what you can create, and how you can create it.

How It Works.
Earlier on, Will Wright, the creator of Spore, came up with a unique game engine, based on Procedural Generation, which most of you don't know, means coming up with animations on the fly. So basically, as your building your creature, all of the core animation and dancing, singing, movement is created right there and then.

My Experience.
The creator is indeed fun to fool around with, especially if you do have all the parts, the trial version only gives you 25% of all the available parts, and at a cost of 10 dollars, you can have all of the parts. I've toyed around and made about 10 creatures to my liking, and it was fun making them, showing it to my cousin and my father while making the creatures, it is very cool.

My Future Expectations.
Using the creator, this only made me more eager for the game, at first I was talking to my friend and he told me, "whats the point of it if you can only create stuff and not even play the full game". Well he has a point, and at a certain part of using it, you get bored eventually, because there really isn't much to do except create creatures, with which you can't really do much else. The 10 dollar deal is a real let down, because once you get the actual game, which is coming out in September, your going to be getting the creature creator anyway, I mean, it's in the game. So buying this and the actual game is a waste of money.

My rating for this "mini-game".
I give this mini-game a 7 out of 10, only because it gets very repetive and very boring after a dozen or so plays.