Creatures series added to GOG

By Robert Purchese Published 20 November, 2009

AI life what I see here.

The Creatures series has been added to GOG.com. For $9.99 you'll get Creatures: The Albian Years (Creatures 1 & 2), Creatures Exodus (Creatures 3 & Docking Station) and Creatures Village (Creatures Adventures & Creatures Playground)

Creatures is a game that used clever programming to simulate life and allow players to breed animals with unpredictable results, which itself resulted in a strong online following and lots of sequels. You could think of it as a precursor to Spore.

But the only review on Eurogamer is for Creatures 3, and it's not exactly a recommendation at 2/10.

GOG.com has also added golden oldie Beyond Divinity as it said it would when announcing the release of Divine Divinity a couple of weeks ago.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • darkmorgado #1 2 years ago

    Dear god that Creatures 3 review linked in the article is terrible. I honestly believe that it was written by a 12-year old, with an overuse of exclamation marks, piss-poor jokes, very little about the game and even a criticism of the box art.
    Dear god.
    Perhaps a series retrospective would be a good idea? I remember actually rather enjoying this game back in the day. I think it even came out on the GBA at one point.

  • Waffleaber #2 2 years ago

    They were idiots but they were lovable idiots.

    I'll be picking up the original for old times sake.

    Warlords III next please. Reign of Heroes, not Battlecry.

  • persus-9 #3 2 years ago

    @ Cragtek: Thing is that it was incredible AI but the incredible thing wasn't that it apeared to be any good, the incredible thing was genuine AI rather just than a simple set of behavioural rules that govern behaviour directly and give the illusion of intelligence such as those that govern Sims. Academically that's very interesting but as a game probably not so great. I dunno, I never bothered to actually play them, I just read about the theory.

  • JayG #4 2 years ago

    While i love GOG and it has some great weekend offer's, the recent additions have hardly been stellar. Beyond Div is awful. I hope they manage to get some of the real old classics like Outcast, Planescape, or some gem's i missed out on first time around.

  • Skurmedel #5 2 years ago

    Sadly I don't think there will be a GOG-release of Planescape: Torment, as Interplay just re-released it themselves, for example: http://ww w.amazon.co.uk/Plane-Scape-Torm...

  • Nithron #6 2 years ago

    For £18? They re-released Planescape Torment.. for £18? It's older than Cher's original nose ffs!

  • Sunyavadin #7 2 years ago

    The stuff crafted by the modding community is truly superb, however.

    A fundamental flaw in the design of their brains lead to early-onset alzheimers in the ones that came with the game, but that was fixable.

  • Sunyavadin #8 2 years ago

    For £18? They re-released Planescape Torment.. for £18? It's older than Cher's original nose ffs!

    And worth TWICE THAT PRICE!

  • persus-9 #9 2 years ago

    @ Nithron: So? Why should games be cheap just because they're old? You'll still get the same entertainment won't you?

  • sega #10 2 years ago

    Sigh - so these arn't the real Creatures games then?

  • Nithron #11 2 years ago

    Yeah, I know, you're both right, it is worth the money even though it's old. But basically every other game that old is about a fiver now, so when a company tries to charge more, it seems like a ripoff.

  • bdgr #12 2 years ago

    @ #4 - Too right, 'Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unfriendly Repulsive Earth-ridden Slime' was excellent!

    [link url=http://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(video_game)
    ]http://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(...[/link]

    although I did like the sequel...

    http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_I...

  • Kluff #13 2 years ago

    I haven't played any of the games in the series, but I own the third part.
    The review of it is indeed very poor. It basically just complains about the graphics and the sound...and that's it!

  • Hantheman #14 2 years ago

    I'd kill for Outcast on GOG

  • Sunyavadin #15 2 years ago

    Also - on reflection, everyone complaining about these not being the "real" Creatures games should go and do something better with their time, like suing Mobigame for their game not being the "real" Edge...