Spore offering us to create our own lifeforms!
ATTENTION: Free cookies at the end!
I've recently got my hands on the Spore Creature Creator and it sure was a blast! Simple to use, yet complex enough to let your lifeforms perform various actions, whatever they may be. I mean, I'm no programmer, but that's got to be hard to accomplish. You'd expect creatures with different constitution to walk and behave differently. Amazingly, Spore takes all the variables like legs and arms into account, making your life form completely unique in every way! For example, take a look at several I created:
The "good" animals. (I'll explain later.)
Parrot-guy. (Yes, I'm not good at names). As the creature creator told me, this guy is a herbivore and can fly pretty well. It also has a cute mating call and lots of beauty parts. So it can charm or something like that.
Presenting... DOGDEERSHARK. That's right! It's half dog, half deer, half shark. Wait, that doesn't seem right... Oh whatever. Anyway, quite a balanced animal. Pretty quick, has horns and claws to defend himself. It looks a bit freaky, but i guess nature could have created something like that.
Super-mosquito! He has a huge horn to headbutt others with, sharp jaws AND can fly! Wouldn't want something like this buzzing around you, eh?
And now, I present the more unbalanced life forms. The "bad" animals. 
What's that on his tail, you ask? Well, as far as i understood, those are something like CHAINSAWS. I don't know much about the game mechanics, but wouldn't this guy cut his opponents to pieces? Do you see chainsaws on any of our animals? I didn't think so. Well, WE have chainsaws, but that's why we're the dominant species.
Oh, and this one flies too! So it's like a tribe of my parrot-men get massacred by these guys? Kind of unbalanced...
I call this one "Murderer". I guess you can see why. I mean, he's like a whole medieval army: spears, maces and other stuff that can be used to kill. Well, i suppose chainsaw-guy would kill this one, unless I install a MORTAR on his back! (No, that's not possible, sadly...)
Seriously, how is this rated E? Besides, I don't mean to sound vulgar, but you can create genital-monsters on Spore. Well it just goes to show you, as long as there's no blood or zombies, it's OK for children... what the hell? I have to admit, though, I got off on the wrong foot here. Via the Spore Creature Creator you can make countless of "clean" creatures. Lots of people are doing it! It's just that reading wouldn't be as nearly as interesting if everything was okay. Right? I sure hope I'm right.
Another nice feature of Spore is how easily you can play with creatures, created by other people.Firstly, there's a huge database of those at the spore website. Secondly, all you have to do in order to play a creature is download the .png file of them and drag & drop it into your sporopedia! It really works! Personally, I've never heard about such a method being used anywhere. Maybe we'll see that in the Sims 3, although I couldn't possibly imagine why would anyone like to play with others' sims.
I know I haven't talked much about the creator itself. Well, that's because I want to encourage you to try it yourself! I'll even give you the URL and make it clicky! Everyone loves links you can click, right? Get Spore. There should be a "Download free trial" around somewhere!
On a side note, I found a little secret in the Spore Creature Creator. If you spin the galaxy at the main screen using your mouse button, Will Wright's face comes spinning out. That freaked me out at first (damn internet with those scary faces and screaming), but It's pretty nice, I guess.
Now, about those free cookies! It's also free publicity for me, so mutually beneficial! Everybody wins! Anyway, here it is.
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME in SPORE! I hope you liked my short post and will return sometime again. Oh and, don't forget - if you have the Creature Creator, you can download any of the critter pictures I posted, drag them into your sporopedia and play around. Have fun!
