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Mike Wehner. BY Mike WehnerApril 30th, 2008
Spore Creature Creator to hit stores June 17th
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Spore. It’s a name that evokes a number of emotions amongst gamers. There are those of us who are so completely drawn into the possibilities of the game that we can barely hold a thought in our head, and then there are those of us that feel nothing but intense intimidation with the sheer scale of the game itself. Regardless of which group you personally belong to, June 17th will afford you the opportunity to test the waters of the game before officially quitting your job to devote your entire life to the organisms of your own creation. On that day, EA and Maxis will be releasing the Spore Creature Creator (also available in demo form) to the masses for $9.99 (€9.99 for EU).

The Creature Creator allows those of us who want to get your hands on something Spore related the chance to spend countless hours engineering your brainchild of a life-form and working out all the kinks before you unleash them into the full retail version when it finally drops. This also gives skeptical players the opportunity to try out some of the aspects of the full game without all the intimidation of the hundreds of hours of gameplay that may lie ahead.

The legend himself, Will Wright seems very excited about giving players this opportunity, “We are thrilled to finally be putting the creative tools of Spore into the hands of players around the world,” he continues, “The amazing creations players design this summer will help populate the game universe we all enter when Spore ships this September, so in a sense, the Spore Creature Creator is the birth of Spore.”

Are you planning on checking this out? If so, we would greatly appreciate it if you sent us the most disgusting creatures your twisted minds can dream up. No, seriously… we would.

    1. Thom Dinsdale says:

    Charging money for this is a stoop lower than Gran Turismo 5 Prolouge. I think I’ll be waiting for the full retail version, this if for the die-hards.

    Also, is the creature creator cross-platform or just for PC’s?

    April 30th, 2008 at 10:13 pm Reply
    2. Rain Anderson says:

    Press release only says this: “All creatures designed with the Spore Creature Creator can be imported into the full retail version of Spore for PC and Mac.”

    But ya, charging for something like this is pretty low.

    April 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pm Reply
    3. RandomElginGuy says:

    Although it seems a bit strange, I don’t hate this pricing thing. At first I was shocked how they could do such a thing, but then I thought about it, spore is more or less all about this creature editor. If they gave away the full creature editor for free, some people will have had all the fun they needed, obviously it is not the whole game and some people will crave for the entire game, but it is certainly a large chunk of the fun.
    It should really be a pre-order gift though rather than a seperate purchase I believe.

    May 1st, 2008 at 7:51 am Reply
    4. KatoSen says:

    I don’t see why to complain about the price. Its only 10 dollars American. REG also took the words out of my mouth.

    I’d rather just play with the creature creator…and the space sandbox, too, so I’ll be getting both the CC and the full game lol

    May 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am Reply









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