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Not much good now unless you actually buy the game to use your new characters in. I purchased this for my 10 year old son. He played it for a few days & enjoyed it. Took a few hours to get the game to work. It didn't start right up & I had to mess around with it to find the game icon.
Marketing on this product is deceptive. It is not an add-on enhancement but a more basic starter version of the game. My son says "a total waste of money." If you already have Spore installed and try to install Creature Creator, you will receive a dialogue box telling you what you should have been told on the packaging - "you cannot install Creature Creator if Spore is already installed."
First of all, I want to say that despite what other reviewers have said, this is NOT the same as the free download from Spore.Com. At any rate, I have had a lot of fun creating strange new creatures. It is the same game but it adds features and parts not found in the free download. Also, I did not seem to have any of the same technical issues with the initial setup as some people have experienced. The only thing I would like to see is more features, such as the use of wings, in the test area. Other than that, this is a lot of fun for someone with a creative streak and likes to put random parts together to see what happens.
UPDATE: Never got it to work on my PC. Could not launch the game. The install seemed to go fine and my kids were exited to start designing monsters. So I can see why some reviews mention the fun-factor might be somewhat short-lived.
I got the "system has recovered from a serious error" message. I purchased the Spore Creature Creator for ten bucks and also the Creepy and Cute Parts Pack for twenty. My wife dowloaded a trial version of the game on her (more powerful) laptop and it did work. Man, that says "buyer beware" to me. I got online and discovered that there were tons of other people out there experiencing the same problems.
My kids enjoyed it very much, though I do see their enthusiasm fading a bit. I would update my star rating for fun to 3, and the overall rating to perhaps 2 or 3, but Amazon wouldn't let me. However, after double-clicking the Spore icon to launch the game, my PC would shut down and restart. But in fairness, I'm talking about the trial, not the full game. I spent hours trying every supposed fix, but couldn't get the game to launch.
Several of the suggested fixes involved uninstalling the game, and doing this or not selecting certain options upon the reinstall. Speaking of the full (50 dollar) game, I notice that it gets one and a half stars with over 3000 reviews. I guess the point is that this Spore game seems to have great potential but it just hasn't worked out well.
But, after realizing what it really was, I stopped playing. I got this game on my birthday, ( as expected) and opened it up and got playing on it right away. It was fun at first, no problems, and me and my brother took turns making creatures. I noticed that you just play with your pointless creature in a limited circle of space and do tricks with it. Not worth the money.
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