Keep going, and eventually you'll get smart, form civilizations, conquer other civilizations, overtake the planet, then move on to other planets! Sound fun? There's more!īefore you even get going with your evolving self, you can run the SPORE Creature Creator, which lets you slap together body components and test out your creation. SPORE starts out with the basic rule of the wild - eat anything that's smaller than you! As you guide your organism through the primordial muck, soon you'll unlock the ability to change your organism's shape and features. Imagine being able to create your very own life form, then cultivating the evolution of that little buddy from a single celled organism with no thoughts of its own to a fully-realized explorer of the galaxy! Along the way, experience all aspects of the life cycle as your creation begins to apply intelligence and social skills to rise to the top of the food chain! It's SPORE! Note #2: unfortunately EA has only made this deal available to US and Canadian customers.
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7, in addition to the PC and Mac game is Spore Creatures, a game for the Nintendo DS, and Spore Mobile, two methods of evolving your creatures on the go.Please note folks, we're not going to have the exact pricing for this promotion until it goes live. Players can upload videos of their creatures to YouTube or post pictures of them to Facebook.Īlso coming Sept. The Creature Creator's drag-and-drop design tools that let you choose from a palate of body parts (mouth, eyes, legs and claws) and them adjust the malleable body and appendages to your liking. Your critter evolves from a slug-like animal and gets smarter, joins tribes, creates a civilization and ultimately goes into space.Įach of the game's five stages - cell, creature, tribal, civilization and space - has a creative editor for evolving your creature and building structures and vehicles.
In the full version of Spore, players can begin as a single-cell organism that must make its way out of the mire and onto land. In development for nearly five years, Spore is an evolutionary simulation game that goes beyond the God game genre. So, in some sense we are priming the pump on the creativity of the database side." And, of course, everything they make with this, we'll be able to capture and put on our database so when the game launches we'll have hundreds of thousands of creatures to start pollinating on day one. "Also, it's really useful for us to get a sense of what people were doing with it, what kind of weird stuff they were making.
"We wanted people to kind of get a feel for how simple the tools are going to be to use," says game designer Will Wright, whose previous creations include The Sims and SimCity.
In addition to the free trial download, a $10 retail version is also sold in stores (copies sold at and Target have a $5 rebate for the full game). Those creations will populate the world - actually, the galaxies - of Spore when the full game launches Sept. - The video game Spore begins its life cycle Tuesday.įor its first baby step, the game's Spore Creature Creator goes live at The program, for Windows and Macintosh PCs, lets players design creatures using the game's editing tools.