Spore

have you heard of this brilliant game, made by the ingenious Will Wright? it's due on 1st of June 2007. a month and a bit before school finishes for me......
basicly, you create an animal, or, better put, alien, possible earthly animal if you can get a good combo of things on it. that creature starts off with a few others of it's type spread all over the planet. you find one, multiply them, build a tribe, then a city, then take over the planet. after that, it's out to the galaxy, then to the universe and beyond!
you get to have a UFO that can obduct things, zap things, pick things up and throw them, and, for you world domination or destruction fans, blow a whole planet to smithereens!
. that is suggested for planets that are too difficult to take over.
then there's the sheer number of variations that you can do with your huts, cities, UFOs, buildings and creatures. i have seen a certain set of combos that just might tempt me to make the universe's most perfect Velociraptor
. there are over 400 different variation options available from the start, and even more as you advance! add to that that many of those 400 funny, cool, ridiculous, goofy, and just plain awesome bodyparts, can be manipulated into different angles. wether you make a 3 toed animal that has feet like /|\ or _|_ [this one is upside down] is up to you. you can have hoofed animals. funny shaped cup footed animals, and other things. you can have over 15 different heads, and they can be shanged in shape. widen it, lengthen it, enlarge it all over...etc. the body itself, can be stretched and morphed in so many different ways it's difficult to count. an example would be the fact that you can curl the tail [if you want one. you can easily make it a "bug butt" instead...] over the chest, buldge it and put a claw, eye, mouth, spike, whatever. you can make it's body serpentine with legs. the only limit i see so far, is the fact that it MUST have legs. it may not be like that, but i don't know since the clips i've seen all have legs and dont show the ability to do it without legs. it's also debated whether or not you can make your creatures fly and swim. some people claim to see creatures with wings, looking almost like a big dragon fly/ bat or something like that. if it IS possible, you can add another creature on my little list: Dragons.
there are a huge variety of eyes, claws, mouths, feet, legs, arms, spikes, hands...etc. all of them are changable in one way or anotrher. i've seen examples of beaks and mouths on a buldge at the tip of the tail, which is curled over the rest of the torso in a Scorpion like way, and eyes where a mouth should be. you can add skin colours and several interesting textures and colour combos. claws can be enlarged, lengthened...etc. legs come in different shapes that can be changed later. you have the "biped carnivore leg" as i call it, which is basicly like a 2 legged predatorial dinosaur leg. you have the horse leg, and a funny, inverted leg, which seems to look like the visible part of a chicken leg. you also have the "rubber legs" which i've named due to there extreme abundance of bones, or apparent lack thereof. arms are the same. you have several different arm styles, ranging from normal, to bizzare. spikes, i know little about, since i've only seen a few through the clips i've seen so far, but that's probably because the makers seem to want to show us the inter-galactic, inter-stellar side to it. hands come in various styles. i've seen raptor like hands, frog like hands, simple claws, and various others. as for mouths, the mouth you pick determines the diet of the creature. you could have a carnivore [meat eating predator], herbivore [plant eating animal. needs fruit], or omnivore [both of the afore mentioned, but less effective at living, since it may need BOTH plants and Meat to survive, instead of eating what's available.]. you can have alligator jaws, beaks, funny, alien, toothy, round mouths, simple lips, bills...etc. the variation available there is the ability to lengthen the mouth, widen it, shorten it...etc. this game is probably one of the few that allows the player to make a creature that Pixar model artists think of and work on for weeks, in a few minutes. you could probably make just about anything you want. Raptors are possible. i've seen the hooked killer claw with 2 other toes as one of the foot options. the snout can be added with a few modifications to the shape of one of the already available ones. the tail is easy. the skin of the JP tiger striped raptor could also be added, but with a few extra stripes on the stomach. raptor hands, as i mentioned earlier, are also available, and can be put on in any way you like. you could have upside down hands on your creation. it doesn't matter. the way i see it. in this game, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING goes. there's no limit to what you can make. i could go on and on forever on this, but i'd like to see what everyone else has to say. so, what are your oppinions?
basicly, you create an animal, or, better put, alien, possible earthly animal if you can get a good combo of things on it. that creature starts off with a few others of it's type spread all over the planet. you find one, multiply them, build a tribe, then a city, then take over the planet. after that, it's out to the galaxy, then to the universe and beyond!
you get to have a UFO that can obduct things, zap things, pick things up and throw them, and, for you world domination or destruction fans, blow a whole planet to smithereens!

then there's the sheer number of variations that you can do with your huts, cities, UFOs, buildings and creatures. i have seen a certain set of combos that just might tempt me to make the universe's most perfect Velociraptor

there are a huge variety of eyes, claws, mouths, feet, legs, arms, spikes, hands...etc. all of them are changable in one way or anotrher. i've seen examples of beaks and mouths on a buldge at the tip of the tail, which is curled over the rest of the torso in a Scorpion like way, and eyes where a mouth should be. you can add skin colours and several interesting textures and colour combos. claws can be enlarged, lengthened...etc. legs come in different shapes that can be changed later. you have the "biped carnivore leg" as i call it, which is basicly like a 2 legged predatorial dinosaur leg. you have the horse leg, and a funny, inverted leg, which seems to look like the visible part of a chicken leg. you also have the "rubber legs" which i've named due to there extreme abundance of bones, or apparent lack thereof. arms are the same. you have several different arm styles, ranging from normal, to bizzare. spikes, i know little about, since i've only seen a few through the clips i've seen so far, but that's probably because the makers seem to want to show us the inter-galactic, inter-stellar side to it. hands come in various styles. i've seen raptor like hands, frog like hands, simple claws, and various others. as for mouths, the mouth you pick determines the diet of the creature. you could have a carnivore [meat eating predator], herbivore [plant eating animal. needs fruit], or omnivore [both of the afore mentioned, but less effective at living, since it may need BOTH plants and Meat to survive, instead of eating what's available.]. you can have alligator jaws, beaks, funny, alien, toothy, round mouths, simple lips, bills...etc. the variation available there is the ability to lengthen the mouth, widen it, shorten it...etc. this game is probably one of the few that allows the player to make a creature that Pixar model artists think of and work on for weeks, in a few minutes. you could probably make just about anything you want. Raptors are possible. i've seen the hooked killer claw with 2 other toes as one of the foot options. the snout can be added with a few modifications to the shape of one of the already available ones. the tail is easy. the skin of the JP tiger striped raptor could also be added, but with a few extra stripes on the stomach. raptor hands, as i mentioned earlier, are also available, and can be put on in any way you like. you could have upside down hands on your creation. it doesn't matter. the way i see it. in this game, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING goes. there's no limit to what you can make. i could go on and on forever on this, but i'd like to see what everyone else has to say. so, what are your oppinions?