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Free Spore Creature Creator in Saturday's Paper - PC

30th July 2008, 12:43pm
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In an exclusive deal for Aussies, the full Spore Creature Creator for PC will be included for free in this Saturday's newspaper. If you purchase either the Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Herald Sun (Melbourne), or the Courier-Mail (Brisbane), you'll get a CD with the full Creature Creator enclosed.

Unfortunately those in NT, ACT, SA, TAS and WA will miss out, unless you can source a copy of the above listed newspapers through your local agency.

Rumours are that there will also be a $15 pre-order discount on the full version of Spore as well through EB Games.

Creature Creator will allow you to build wild and whacky creatures, and will allow them to roam free in the upcoming Spore sandbox game. The demo of Creature Creator has been available now for a few weeks on EA' website.

Sliced Comments: The Creature Creator is good to play with, and you can't go past a free version for the price of a local paper.

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Latest Reader Comments:
Predator
Posted by Predator 03/08/2008 8:03pm
oops, forgot! was on holiday up north until today
Posted by Master Chief 01/08/2008 7:31pm
Got an e-mail from EB earlier, basically said you have to take the coupon in the paper to your local EB to get the creature creator for $2, and you can also get $15 off your pre-order.
Predator
Posted by Predator 01/08/2008 3:10pm
karaoke: I have played with the demo version a bit. It is fun to play with, and would probably be suitable for kids (all-G rated), however hard to say whether they would get into it or not.

There isn't too much too it, you can just drag bits and pieces (different styles of  eyes, mouth, noses, arms, etc) onto creatures into different places, and they can walk around based on that placement. You can also give them different colours and patterns. So basically you can just build whatever creature you like. The fun part is just what you can build, and silly, or scary, or curious looking creatures. And you can show them off to other people you might know, or browse other creatures.

So the Creature Creator in itself that's mainly what you do, there isn't any gameplay associated with it.
nshady
Posted by nshady 01/08/2008 11:24am
Well, it's nothing more than a character creator at the moment, but Spore seems like it will be fun for all ages.
karaoke
Posted by karaoke 01/08/2008 10:18am
Just wondering if this is a good game that younger kids might be interested in playing at all ie 7 & 12 yrs old ? My daughter loves playing PC games & desperately wants a copy of Lego Starwars The Original Trilogy which we can't seem to find anywhere but if this is any good we might just give this a go instead.


Predator
Posted by Predator 01/08/2008 10:00am
It's official.. just got the press release from EA then.. full version, tomorrow: $2 extra.
Posted by moodycj 31/07/2008 1:43pm

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Moody, all my local newsagents get the Herald Sun, don't see why you can't pick one up?
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You live in Unley, I live in Mile End. Mind picking one up for me?


Sure.

Awesome thanks heaps.
nshady
Posted by nshady 31/07/2008 11:51am

Moody, all my local newsagents get the Herald Sun, don't see why you can't pick one up?

You live in Unley, I live in Mile End. Mind picking one up for me?


Sure.
Predator
Posted by Predator 30/07/2008 7:04pm
They wouldn't sell the trial version for $2 more.. when it's a free download.

I'm pretty sure it's an exclusive deal..
Posted by moodycj 30/07/2008 6:43pm
Moody, all my local newsagents get the Herald Sun, don't see why you can't pick one up?

You live in Unley, I live in Mile End. Mind picking one up for me?
nshady
Posted by nshady 30/07/2008 4:25pm
Moody, all my local newsagents get the Herald Sun, don't see why you can't pick one up?
Posted by Master Chief 30/07/2008 1:57pm
I saw this advertised in the paper yesterday, but it said it's the trial version and it will cost $2 extra?