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In Pictures: Creature creations

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Electronic Arts has released the Spore Creature Creator, to allow gamers to build life forms for the hotly anticipated game Spore.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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The online “life simulation” game is due for release later this year and is the brainchild of Sims creator Will Wright.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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In the game players control the evolution of a species from unicellular organism to intelligent creatures capable of space exploration.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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Gamers can customise almost any feature of the game – including buildings, characters and vehicles – using editing software.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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Creature Creator is the first editor for the game to be released. Artificial Intelligence automatically works out how creations move.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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More than 250,000 creatures have already been built with gamers sharing their creations online through the Sporepedia website.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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The free software is available for both PC and Mac. A paid-for version gives gamers more body parts to play with.

Spore Creature Creator screengrab

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Spore will hit shelves on 5 September in Europe and 7 September elsewhere. It will run on PCs, Macs, mobiles and the Nintendo DS.

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