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Your Learning Zone - Spore Creature Creator
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List Price: $9.99
Our Price: $9.95
Your Save: $ 0.04 ( 0% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 60
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633158649
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: Build using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction?
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 15864
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Studio: Electronic Arts
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Features
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Build using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction?
Paint with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd
Play with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions
Share using built-in snapshot and video tools—make your creature a star.
Plays on both PC and Mac
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: So much fun!!
Comment: I first tried the free demo of this game (unlimited time demo with 25% of creature parts available) and it was absolutely a delight.
I purchased the full version and it is being used by grandkids, niece, nephews and even the neighbor kids. ENDLESS fun.
With a simple drag and drop format, you can create the most professional animated creatures; comparable to something found in a Disney movie. Actually...these are better...MUCH better.
Try the free demo version at Spore.com. Kids from 4 to adult will enjoy this. It stimulates creativity and imagination.
Play offline or log in to upload your creatures in seconds (with a one button click) to your Spore web page where it can be viewed by millions of Spore fans. Your personal Spore webpage is FREE and is
auto created when you register your demo or full version of game.
I highly recommend this over any game I've ever found. EVERY single kid and adult I show it to is immediately interested in making their own creature. So much fun!
Please note that you do need to to use an internet connection the first time you load game, to register it. This provides three installs of game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excited
Comment: Even though it was just a preview of the game, it really showed the time that's been going into the final product: Spore. The level of customization is amazing. A good deal more than a million different creatures have already been created by players of this game. The interface is very user-friendly, and I can tell that Spore is going to have great game-play and graphics.
Customer Rating:
Summary: $10 worth of fun? I think so!
Comment: We tried to put this program on our Mac first, and it didn't work. So we tried it on my XP-running PC. There was no problem installing it there, and it was amazing how quickly we started creating creatures, we being myself and my 12-year-old daughter.
You decide what qualities you want your creature to have, and you're given choices of limbs and extras to give your creature those characteristics. Add wings, and your character can glide. Add a spikey tail, and watch your character's attack points go up. Add armor parts to make your character's health go up. You can then watch your character attack, dance hip hop, swoon with love and more. It's so much fun!
I suspect this will probably get about 30 hours of play before my daughter gets bored of it, but 30 hours of entertainment for $[...] isn't bad at all. I'm not sure if she'll ever play with her characters online (we don't approve of violent video games), but that's fine with us. Spore Creature Creator is loads of fun on its own.
Seriously, this is worth the $[...] if you have a creative teen or tween.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It didn't work.
Comment: I saw a video of this product that made it look easy and fun so I ordered it. It would never install and the support on the Spore site did not address the issue. So I had to return it.
Too bad.
Customer Rating:
Summary: EA kinna kills it
Comment: It is a fun tool and great toy for anyone who likes computer animation. The creatures created are a lot of fun and finding new ways to use parts and colors is a challenge to keep you busy for quite some time to come.
That said, EA kinna kills it.
There is as of today in game advertising. This is not mentioned on any box or information sheet. The AT&T advert even makes it difficult to see things in the Sporepedia. It also drops in doubleclick and atdmt scripts and tracking cookies on ya. Or it tries to if you let it. This was done after the product was demonstrated in the trade shows publicly.
The game has bugs that have not been addressed since start and the forums are a barely moderated mess. Seems the main plan was to get adverts going less than a month away more than fixing bugs. Enough time to test the adverts but not enough time for most pre-order people to be notified.
If folks were warned ahead of time of in game advertising, spyware loaded onto your system via part of the website, and the general lack of EA assistance. I doubt many would have purchased this or pre-ordered Spore. The fact they waited to show it off at trade shows then bait and switch is hard to swallow.
There are Customer service issues abound. A number of mistaken bans, banning the person who reported a unsuitable item rather than the offender. Folks with DRM trouble having to wait over a week for a new code, and only after asking for it a few times. No real support with any bugs other than some user discovered workarounds.
Generally a mess an a half. Nice program. Shame about any support except unwanted and unwarranted additions.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This is not the game. It lets you create characters for the game. Game is expected to be released at a later date.
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