Spore Creature Creator Comments by Kieron Gillen

I would give it a try if my PC wasn't verging on obsolete, shame I can't join in making fun penis-monsters.

Arsing about with the creator is more fun than a lot of games, especially when you think this is cheaper than every single 800 point release on XBLA.

It'll also run on absolute crap as even my work desktop PC with Intel integrated shite manages to work quite nicely with it, something I doubt the final game will do.

ahh so true, my PC is so old its running windows BC, and has a graphics card forged by cavemen.

so the 360 for me

It's not coming out on the 360.

It'll come out on everything, eventually. It's EA.

My copy of Alien didn't turn out so well, it just looked far too cute and you can't have black as a colour.

Wintersnowblind is right

there's simply no way this wont be out on the current consoles

@evilfoxhound: I haven't read the review, but I think it's safe to assume that the creature making game you played didn't have procedural animation in order to make possibilties almost limitless. I might be wrong, but I'd be highly surprised if I am.

Best toy I've bought in ages.
Spore is going to be epic.

"Even if you never plan to play Spore, it's absolutely essential you play this."

Wot? Are you sure?

Personally, I think you should have given it 5/10 for forcing you to use the EA downloader service.

But I'm sure Spore will be great.

"It absolutely re-democratises creativity in this way."

Baaaarf! Note to all Americans and writers who read too many things written by said:

s/absolutely// # this will work 99.9% of the time

s/re-// # this will also work almost all of the time

s/personal(ly)?// # not strictly relevant, but it'd be great. In my personal opinion. Not my impersonal one.

The CC is absolutely fantastic
I now have to fight my gf off my computer as she's addicted to making creatures - and that's just the demo.
Annoying that the mac version has higher gfx requirements, but that's what you get when the game is basically running on WINE. grrrr.

Personally, I think you should have given it 5/10 for forcing you to use the EA downloader service.

You can buy the disc version in the shop, has the Mac and PC versions on it.
You take the receipt to the shop when you buy spore and you'll get your fiver off the game.

Spore CC = Spore Cox Creator

played it on my mac and it ran like a dream, loving CC

Better than MGS4 lol

@symmetry

Erm.. are you sure? You can click on the preset colours and it brings up a swatch with more variations of the same colour. So you can have the blackest mofo this side of... ok now I sound racist.

It's awesome fun - loved by kids and adults alike.

I did manage to create a non symmetrical creature (through creating massive mesh clashes) however it would not save - which is a shame as I was going to enter it in to the dance competition (it was a bit of a mover - even when stood still).

Like Whizzo said - far more entertaining than most of the stuff on XBL.

Bodes well for the final release and it is probably a great introduction to the final package.

It'll come out on everything, eventually. It's EA.

If there's one good thing about EA's furious desire to maximise ROI, it's the fact that an EA game will invariably end up on whatever gaming device you own.

So what does this do exactly?

Do you simply create creatures and then er look at them. I'm failing to see what's so fantastic about it. Sorry.

If you can create a creature covered in vaginas, which is what some of the screenies hint at, I fail to see why it didn't get a ten myself.

It's the excitement of being a cack-handed, non-creative type and still being able to create something interesting/striking/fun. As the review sums up, it democratises (to a certain extent) 3d modelling and is a revolutionary tool for doing so. It does what it does so easily, its easy to take it for granted. It's not a game of course, it's merely a pre-order bonus, if you like, but somehow manages to be far more interesting and exciting than most other 1/2 hour demos out there for the power/fun it offers you.

Personally, I think you should have given it 5/10 for forcing you to use the EA downloader service.

It's not. I even removed the downloader service from my desk after installing the premium version of spore creature creator. Not really necessary to have that service-tool and - in some cases - it even bugs the spore cc (can't start creature creator because of it etc.)

Edit: friggen typos

5 pounds = 73,130,937,090 zimbabwe dollars

i'm having loads of fun with this

i worked out my lunch cost 89 billion dollars

@ anomagnus

lol, mugabe for queen!

Better than MGS4 then!

:-)

Erm.. are you sure? You can click on the preset colours and it brings up a swatch with more variations of the same colour.

You can also ditch the preset colours and create your own base, coat colour and detail layers.

A penny sweet cost me 193 million dollars :D

I've only played the demo but in my view 9/10 is a ridiculous score. You can't actually do anything with what you make. The aesthetic is very tightly controlled and the animations are always fundamentally the same such that whatever you make is a cartoon puppy (with varying face/limbs). The tools are really limited - you can create cool creatures if you plunk stuff in at random but start with a fixed goal (e.g. a monkey) and try to reach it - you'll only make a sad imitation.

I'm not a "play a real guitar instead of guitar hero" guy, but in this case I absolutely recommend buying 5 quid of plasticine over Spore Creature Creator.

edit: I did read the text btw, it doesn't sound like a 9 to me either. It can hardly re-democratises creativity when it doesn't provide a sufficiently flexible outlet to be really creative. Unlike a sketch pad or blog or whatever.

While I have enjoyed toying with the full £5 demo, I do not think a 9/10 is correct.

It is fun for about 15 mins, then I get frustrated with the lack of parts available (even with the whole lot unlocked) and switch it off.

Why include a selection of wings if your creations can't fly?

It would be nice to be able to upload your own skins to wrap around your creature (Randle from Monsters Inc. anyone?)

Another "controversial" review from EG.
Spore CC is fukken great. But..*shrug*

Review "mIRC" next time please! Also a great app to have fun with. Check it out (y)

Forgot to mention it comes with SecuROM which will send your computer name, real name(if you have it entered into your computer) and all sorts of fun stuff to EA without your consent.

Seriously, EG: Start acting like journalists and report these things!

See?

EG in controversial review shocker...

@evilfoxhound

Your post is the most worthless post I have read today :o

@hahayou

EG used the first half of the first page of the review to explain to you that they are just reviewing the creator creator as it is. What do you expect to be able to do with the creator? Anything else other than what it already does would and it would not be called Creature Creator any more would it?

@Everyone else

The sheer technical achievement of this software is worth all of the 9/10 given to it and the ease of use for such an achievement is truly stunning.

Remember there will be a sequel in a few years time and I would imagine things like unsymmetrical creatures and more detailed construction will be work on :)

Fusey:
Totally part of EA.
Also, Spore 2 confirmed! Yosh!

Btw, is that supposed to be..an argument?
"Remember! There will be a sequel down the line. (Ps, if you buy this!)"

@hahayou: SomYungGai's monkey from the Sporepedia, seems pretty good - not perfect, but with (perfectly possible) tweaking...:
Just one monkey example
Import it, and have a shot with that one.


And I recommend anyone curious to see the possibilities to look at the over 1 million creatures so far created at the Sporepedia here:

Sporepedia

My comments? Being able to tear off parts of limbs and then join extra full limbs to them is invaluble for creating some very weird and wonderful creatures! The main limit I wish removed is not being able to turn the hind feet (e.g. for insects) :D But it is an amazing achievement and extremely fun and easy to use.

Omg Eurogamer part of clear Jewish/MJ12 Global Conspiracy to take over world - the only thing that can explain this score tbh

@evilfoxhound: "SPORE CC is far from revolutionary."


That's the most moronic comment i've read on here since hearing a ps3 owner tell me the ps3 has better graphics than the 360.

skp - nice try, but that monkey is a quadruped. How's it gonna throw feces at the other aliens if it's got 4 feet?
And the skin looks like bark... and the eyes, the weird googly eyes...

Better than MGS4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 then?

How long have people been making these "so better then X" comments? Can't you come up with something new?

>Better than MGS4

At least you can INTERACT with this...

SPORE PENIS CREATOR


LOOOOOOOOOL

I feel plenty creative despite the limitations. Sure making asymmetric creatures is hard but I don't want Maya, I want a sketchbook of creativity, which is what it is.

I've seen people make fairly impressive humanoids as well as recreations of all sorts of inanimate objects.

That said my 12 legged centipede would like to have the low complexity limit explained.

"smelly, you just made the biggest contradictory comment of all time LOL"

lulz, thought everyone had smelly on Ignore already. Not so, obviously.

Quite funny, that. Must be hard to be an ass/troll when only 5% of the eurogamers see your comments.

OSX 10.5 only? Bah... and furthermore, humbug! It isn't like 10.4 is Windows 95, is it? And they must have been developing on 10.4 during the bulk of the development cycle, I'd have thought.

Grrrrrr.

I was interested in trying this, even downloaded the demo - but SecuROM? No, thanks. I'll pass. Thank god I discovered it before installing.

Won't buy the full game either because of this - just as I'll pass on Mass Effect. I was quite interested in both, but I don't want to pollute my PC with malware. When will publishers finally learn that invasive "anti-piracy" measures prevent more sales than they protect?

I dunno what that linked SECUrom story is all about, I installed the demo and (under XP) I have no visible issues with disc images or burning problems, and no securom processes or trouble with task manager. Also, my PC is no monster (Athlon 3700, 1.5Gb RAM, GeForce 6800GT) but it ran this fine. It's a demo; try it, it won't cost you anything, that's what they are for.

I respect how simple this makes creature building but at least with the limited demo components it's just not good enough, and I doubt adding more horns and orifices will improve things. Adjusting the skeleton is not really practical, any time you get one bit right you mess it up if you try to bend it another way. Just as I feared, the horrific art style is the absolute death of it for me. I wanted to make a vaguely credible creature of nightmare, but even with compound eyes and serrated mandibles they still exude insincere Maxis plastic charm. Animations may be proceedurally generated, but that just makes them clever, not good, amusing or fun to see more than once. No sale. And, of course, without any kind of game behind it the whole exercise is utterly pointless, the gaming equivalent of "get to 10,000 posts!" threads. I do agree with the whole "but it's my creature, it's special" thing, but as soon as you realise that you can't actually do anything with the beasts you make (other than wait three months), it all falls apart.

I dont really like the art either, but its "spore".
I think thats one of its stronger points tbh. Creatures can look very different, but its still clear that its a spore-creature.

If you would be able to create your own skins etc, I think it would end up MUCH worse and more SecondLife-ish = soulless and boring. (Rather than just somewhat boring.)