• Publisher: EA Games
  • Release Date: Sep 7, 2008
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: Spore Creatures gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore Creatures gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers. [Electronic Arts] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 20
  2. Negative: 3 out of 20
  1. A triumph - a constantly evolving, charming and surprising triumph. [Oct 2008, p.83]
  2. The realistic way these creatures move and act is by far the game's most impressive feature. [Nov 2008, p.95]
  3. Spore Creatures is a decent demonstration about the power of Will Wright's ideas in a videogame that tries to imitate the PC version customization possibilities. The result is obviously limited but it's still a very suitable adventure for the kids above all.
  4. Linear, boring and tedious game – is it really Spore? An unsuccessful attempt to bring the evolution process onto the pocket console fails in all aspects. Waste of time. [Oct 2008]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. While Spore Creatures will never, EVER be as good as Spore for PC, there is no doubt that it is fun. But the overall presentation could have been better. Expand
  2. FritzGallante
    5
    Playing Spore Creatures is like playing a tutorial: short, easy and without a (real) story. Almost every action in this game is guided and suggested by Npc's or your avatar, and the chances to interact with the world are really few. Even replay the game to unlock all the secrets, is merely a boring lose of time.
    Less than a real game, a bit more than a trailer for the PC game.
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  3. Don't get me wrong here, i love spore games. i rated spore for pc an 8 out of 10. This game however is just a disappointment. the gameplay is pretty boring, the fighting isn't fun, the worlds are small. But the downright worst thing about this game, which makes me drop my score from like 6 to 4: the graphics. The entire game looks like it was made using paper cut-outs. When your creature turns around, you can physically see the 1-dimentional side of it. WHY?? Expand

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