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Waste money on old SimCities to get Spore Creature Creator? SOLD!!
Tragic Hero \| 7:05 PM on 04.15.2008	9 comments

So you may wonder what would be so great about buying the SimCity Box that is coming out? I mean, it contains all the previous SimCity games you most likely played (or tried to play) and the less enjoyable SimCity Societies. So why on earth would you spend $40 dollars to get SimCity Societies/SimCity 4 and its expansions? Because you can get a chance to play with the Creature Creator in Spore of course!

Yes that seems to be the draw of this product slated for June release, according to IGN. You get the chance to create your alien creature from its initial evolution stage and you can evolve it from each of its proper stages so that you may see what options you have to create before the game comes out.

No sarcasm implied but I am sold on this. For me to get a chance at "fiddling" with one of Spores main draws is enough for me to shell out $40 for the enjoyable SimCity 4 that I have played many times and perhaps see what all the negativity is about when it comes to SimCity Societies.

So how about you kids? Are you going to dive into this "publicity stunt" or you going to say "nay" and wait patiently for Spore to come out at the end of the year (that is if it doesn't get pushed back)?

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9 comments | showing # 1 to 9

J4RMZ

Oh...God.

I am not legally allowed by my girlfriend to be within 200 yards of a disk containing, Sim-anything, Diablo-anything, Civilization-anything, or Scarlet Johansen. But I would smother her with a pillow in her sleep to get a chance to try the spore character creation possibilities that will no doubt disappoint me.

MechaMonkey

I heard it comes with a Halo 3 beta invitation as well.

B-Radicate

While interested, it's not worth $40 for me considering the entire game will come with this and only cost $10 more. I'll wait, but good find.

Rockvillian

CRACK DOWN!

Skribble

who knows

I might have $40 to waste

Tubatic

Pass. I'll go for Zone of Enders instead, thank you very much.

Mxyzptlk

I'm pretty sure they're releasing the Spore editor for free online before the game comes out anyway.

Tragic Hero

Yeah someone actually told me that after I posted. But depending on how impatient you are and how far down the line you want it then this could be an alternative?

0goober0

There are going to be 2 different versions of the creature editor released in June. One is a free one that can be downloaded. The other will cost $10. The free one will come with about 20% of the parts while the $10 one will come with all the parts. The one that comes in the Sim-City box is the FREE version. The only reason it's in there is to get people who play Sim City but have never heard of spore interested in Spore. If you don't want the Sim City box and only the creature editor you should NOT pay $40 for something that you can download for free. Instead pay $10 and get more than you would if you payed $40.

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Who am I?

A gamer from the South Side of Chicago. Currently going to college for a Computer Science degree and looking into a course for C# certification so I can become a business applications programmer (gaming programming just isn't worth it).

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Play games, play sports (european and american football), read a lot, go to the pub (need a new one, got banned from my old one), program crappy little applications, and so on.

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