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More Species in Spore than in Real Life

Deathsythe | July 15, 2008 | News | PC Wii E3 2008 Misc 
Figures released yesterday during a press conference at E3 show that there are over 1.8 million unique creatures in Spore. It's a little sad that there are around 300,000 more unique species' in a game than that exist in real life. If the universe is expanding, god only knows what is happening to the net.
At its press conference just now, EA announced that over 1.8 million creatures have been created by people using the Spore Creature Creator -- that's more than the number of known species in the world (1.5 million)! The Creature Creator has been available less than a month, meaning all of those creatures were created in just that amount of time. This is an especially staggering number considering the real game in which these creatures are used, Spore, isn't even available yet.

Spore creator Will Wright said that EA was hoping to get 100,000 creatures uploaded by players with the Creature Editor by September. They hit that number in 22 hours. Wright also showed off some of his favorite fan created creatures on screen.

EA also announced that National Geographic put together a documentary on evolution using Spore that will air the week the game ships. This documentary will be included in the Galactic Edition of the game.

To see some of the many possible creations with Spore, check out our recent roundup of gaming characters created with the Spore Creature Creator. It includes this beauty of Spore creator Will Wright himself:

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    Zeon I | July 15, 2008
    I'm pretty sure the number of Spore Fanboys outnumbers the species of Animals on Earth, so yeah. :/
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    Armed Rebel | July 16, 2008
    Take that, god. dfasdf
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    huntyr | July 16, 2008
    out of the 1.8 million, i wonder how many are sporn?
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      ali3n | July 16, 2008
      1, 790, 000 are sporn the rest are variations of the creatures in real life or games.
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    Zeta | July 16, 2008
    Spore rulez ^^ This game is awesome
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    Marshal Loss | July 17, 2008
    Lol Armed Rebel, xD. A move forward for Athiests yesterday!

    Looks great, I can't wait!

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