PC World writes: "Spool up EA's lightweight Spore Creature Creator and you're greeted by a swirling galactic nexus accompanied by celestial chimes and brooding strings, teasing the many places you'll eventually have the chance to visit once your stalk-eyed, six-handed, single-legged baby's all grown up.
The trial version of the Creature Creator -- about 200MB and available now for either PC or Mac -- only lets you fiddle a few body parts (mouths, eyes, arms, legs, weapons) and upload them to a MySpace-like template called MySpore Page. At last check, there were some 30,453 total creatures in the database, 26,847 people joined up since yesterday, and 18,678 creature uploaded in the last 24 hours (that's probably in part because the tool leaked a day or two early)."
Bored at work? Why not make a creature with a penis-shaped head? EA has released a new web-based version of their Spore Creature Creator.
Eurogamer writes: "SHODAN may have been scary, but she's got nothing on Lucy. The fun-size pocket robot orangutan may now be consigned to Cyberlife Research vault, but the artificial intelligence comprising her virtual brain - which her creators hoped would see her through real-life kindergarten - is of a level of sophistication that makes Looking Glass' amalgam of clever scripting, voice-acting, and cut-scenes look utterly prehistoric. And while she certainly wasn't blessed with SHODAN's looks, either - in all honesty, she looks like a cross between Estelle Getty and Chucky the Lakeshore Strangler - there's little doubt Lucy's probably the better dinner party guest."
GameSpot writes: "EA and Maxis' Spore generated a good deal of buzz from the moment it was announced at the 2005 Game Developers Conference. On the commercial-gaming side, the game represented the latest effort from celebrity game designer Will Wright, one that was backed by the substantial resources of publishing powerhouse Electronic Arts."
