Creatures series added to GOG News
PC Retro News by Robert Purchese
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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darkmorgado
20/11/09 @ 16:45
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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. |
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Waffleaber
20/11/09 @ 17:01
+5
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. |
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@ 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.
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Sadly I don't think there will be a GOG-release of Planescape: Torment, as Interplay just re-released it themselves, for example: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plane-Scape-Torm...
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Sunyavadin
20/11/09 @ 18:57
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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. |
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Sunyavadin
20/11/09 @ 18:57
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For £18? They re-released Planescape Torment.. for £18? It's older than Cher's original nose ffs!
And worth TWICE THAT PRICE! |
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@ #4 - Too right, 'Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unfriendly Repulsive Earth-ridden Slime' was excellent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(... although I did like the sequel... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_I... |
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Watkins381
21/11/09 @ 18:00
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Creatures 1 came free with a newspaper in a supermarket one day, im not making this up thats how I got this game, hah
Imagine 2d sims but with possessed devil things |
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Sunyavadin
07/12/09 @ 13:48
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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...
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