Living as I do on the bleeding edge of games and electronic entertainment, it seemed only fitting that I test out the Spore Creature Creator mere days before the full product is available, and only a few short months after the Creator itself was released for free.
I’d been meaning to download and install the thing for ages, but got caught up with other projects (like playing Wizard101 – with my kids, of course). Finally got around to it this weekend, when I remembered that (a) it was on the latest PC Gamer CD, and (b) my girls love creating characters. They will gladly play through the visual char-gen process for any computer RPG numerous times, just playing with the different options. (Yes, they will be all over City of Heroes when they get older.)
So… Install… Set up… And immediately both girls are all over it, eager to try their hands at playing God. I installed a second copy on the computer of my beautiful and talented wife, and each girl is studiously playing on her own computer, laughing with delight as she bring her odd new lifeform to life
For the uninitiated, here’s a YouTube clip showing the Spore Creature Creator in action. As you can see, it’s a sort of “Mr. Potato Head meets Dr. Frankenstein” program, in that you combine a bunch of body parts as you see fit, then bring them to life.
Cool, eh?
