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Spore Creatures

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Spore Creature's official boxart
Developer Foundation 9
Publisher Eletronic Arts
Designer Will Wright
Release date(s) September 4, 2008
Genre Simulation, RPG
Mode Single player, multiplayer
Rating ESRB: E (Everyone)
Platforms Nintendo DS

Spore Creatures is the Nintendo DS spin-off of Spore, developed by Foundation 9, in which a player controls and evolves a creature of their creation.

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[edit] Gameplay

The game focuses on the Creature stage of the larger game. Unlike the characters of Spore, the creatures in this game are completely 2D, but the environments remain 3D.

Spore Creatures is a more story-based game as the gamer plays as an Oogie. Another Oogie creature is kidnapped by a UFO piloted by an evil creature named Gar' skuther (a cyborg alien),and you are forced to survive in strange islands over the course of 30 levels. When the game is completed, the player can play the replay mode. The player's creature is created and modified in an editor, using points earned to give the creature different body parts and skills. The player is given 20 points at the start with which to build their initial creature.

The game focuses on survival, which includes finding food, with mini-games such as cuddling and dancing for friend-making. A large part of the game involves collecting items, allowing players to earn 60 badges based on game moments and actions. The players can also perform side quests and play mini-games to unlock skills and 280 hidden creature parts, which are given to the player by other friendly creatures. Some parts grant "Bio-Powers", such as an in-combat healing ability or flame-breath.

Combat consists of the player initiating the fight with another creature by selecting it to go into a one-on-one combat screen in which the creatures face off against each other.

[edit] Multiplayer

The game allows the player to save thirty different creations, including those from friends over a local, peer-to-peer connection. Players can have their creatures interact via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection; Spore Creatures is one of the few Nintendo DS or Wii games to allow a player to opt out of needing to input Friend Codes.

[edit] Trivia

  • Unlike in the PC spore, The type of body a player chooses determines the type of sound the creature makes, not the type of mouth.
  • This game is rather glitchy, with parts disappearing if there are many creatures around, especially if near a nest.
  • In Spore, there is a rare artifact called the "Tablet of The Tribes," which was written in Oogie blood.

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