Spore: Creature Creator first look

[Note: All impressions are made using the 'Trial' version of Spore's Creature Creator]

I have been looking over the Creature Creator for Spore over the last day or so. From what I have seen of it so far it makes for a fun editing tool, which looks to be a big part of the Spore experience (be it transforming your cell into a land faring creature to transforming a tribe into a city & beyond).

Overall I found the Creature Creator incredibly user friendly, allowing for mistakes in creation rather than the interface holding you back from experimentation. One early example of this had me create a fairly tall two legged beast which I had placed the arms too close & low on the body meaning that the creature couldn’t lift his arms. Instead a webbing between arm & body could be seen, every time an arm raise was attempted.

I also noted that as long as your created creature has a head and facial features, he(?) will give his judgement on new body parts you add. I have had a fair share of disapproving head shakes from my creations.

With 2,000 destiny points almost anything goes within even the 25% functionality of the trial version. I hope to get hold of the full Creature Creator very soon & will be covering that then.

Tom & I had planned to run both our thoughts on the CC in this post but Tom has been struggling to get into his copy due to a bad activation key being issued to him. His thoughts will be in a future post.

A regular reader here at Sweet Flag, Aaron at Anyway Games, has a concise round-up of the CC. Between us we did find only a few minor early drawbacks/questions:

Sporepedia – accessed via the CC directly only seems to show your creations & that of Maxis(around 30). This may mean that the CC will only be directly linked to Sporepedia on the full retail release of Spore or that the trial version, which I am using, may not allow direct connection to the full Sporepedia.

How have you found the Sporepedia? Are you having the same problems as us?

Gender – There seems to be no distinction between male or female made in the CC which is kind of odd as breeding is part of Spore’s main game. Does this mean by default for all your creations are of a  masculine disposition?

As you can see not too much to gripe about really.

Best tip – Use your scroll wheel on your mouse to expand the bone structure of your creature’s spine. This allows for some very interesting shapes to you creations.

More from both Tom & myself on the Creature Creator in future posts.

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