The next evolution in gaming is upon us. From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes SPORE, an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space.

Spore Creature Creator is a stand-alone product and creativity toy box where players create their own unique creatures, bring them to life with entertaining animations, and share them online with friends around the world.

You can import creatures made in the Spore Creature Creator into the full Spore game, thus populating your own galaxies when the game ships worldwide later this year.

The Spore Creature Creator lets players create their own creatures, take them on a test drive, snap pictures, and make movies of them. Sharing pictures or videos with friends is as easy as the click of a button. Players can also share their creations with others by uploading to the Sporepedia. The Sporepedia is an extraordinarily vast online destination where people worldwide can search for and share Spore creations, comment on other player's designs, check out celebrity creature creations and much more.

The ability to upload players' creations to YouTube has also been integrated into the Spore Creature Creator. Players can import and upload video of their creatures' moves directly to YouTube with only two clicks within the game. Spore will have its own YouTube Channel where all videos of users' creations uploaded from the game will be showcased for the YouTube community to watch, share, rate and comment on.

Spore, the highly-anticipated game from the creators of The Sims, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled with creations made by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs.

Note: For MAC players, the patch can be obtained by simply starting your game.

Here are some key features of "Spore Creature Creator":

· BUILD using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts is it fashion, function, or fashunction?
· PAINT with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd.
· PLAY with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions.
· SHARE using built-in snapshot and video tools-make your creature a star.

Requirements:

· Processor - 2.0 GHz processor.
· Memory - 768 MB RAM.
· Hard Drive - At least 300 MB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for created creatures. (190 MB for the Trial Edition).
· Video Card - A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

Limitations:

· The trial version features 25% of the creature-making parts from Spore and lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creatures.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Buildings have high quality textures in the game like they do in the Editor, if display settings are on High.
· Fixes occasional corrupted backgrounds on Sporepedia Cards.
· Includes ongoing improvements in animation to be more responsive to weapons placed anywhere on a Creature's body.
· Increases the number of "charges" of Space Tools Player can purchase in a single transaction.
· Increases the range and damage for turrets defending against enemy spacecraft.
· Enables Player to reach all Grox worlds.
· Fixes a bug with the Terraform Tutorial Mission not being complete-able for all planet T-Scores by giving four basic tools to change score in any direction.
· Improves general performance across the entire game.
· Improved searching in Sporepedia.
· Allows download of creations from website directly to game.
· YouTube movies publish as private.