Spore Creatures Released for iPhone: Herpes Evolves a Pair of Legs
In the first release, Spore Origins, I had quite a field day making tons of cellular life forms named after various STDs. In the newly released Spore Creatures for iPhone, you can now give your special pets the gift of legs to begin their new lives on land.
The sequel plays much like the original using tilt based controls for movement. Players steer their creature towards other smaller creatures to consume them. Once enough creatures have been consumed your creature will evolve gaining new abilities such as shells, wings and mouths.
Sadly you can’t customize your creature in great detail, such as adding bumps on your creature’s lower lip, I really wanted my creature to sport some nice cold sores too. Hopefully EA adds this feature in the next update *crosses fingers*.
Although you can do some large scale customizations on your creature like changing the body shape and size using pinch gestures or even alter the color and pattern of their skin. You can also use pictures from your iPhone photo app for skin patterns. Check out the example of custom skin textures in the screenshot gallery above. I used my Apple wallpaper as the texture for my creature.
What? Did you just call me an Apple fanboy? I’ll have you know it’s perfectly normal to wrap creatures in beautiful Apple wallpaper. *Rubs iPhone touchscreen in a perfectly normal and not sexual way, rubbing the touchscreen in slow motion doesn’t make it sexual either by the way, maybe creepy but definitely not sexual.*
Alright back to Spore Creatures, there’s a total of 45 unique body parts to choose from when customizing your creature.
As for content, there’s a total of 20 levels spread across four zone types — Sandy Shores, Barren Desert, Dark Forest and Icy Mountains. I didn’t get too far into the game but supposedly there are puzzles to solve. What kind of puzzles they’re talking about, your guess is as good as mine.
There was one interesting tidbit that I got from the release description.
“Socialize or attack unique creature herds. The choice is yours.”
I do recall in the desktop version creatures could socialize by dancing, I’m guessing the mobile version will follow suit and offer some way for our creatures to shake their rumps in the name of friendship.
App Store Link: Spore Creatures ($6.99)
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