I'm not sure how but as I write this post I have a totally legit copy of Spore currently installing on my machine even though my count-down timer is telling me there's still another 24 hours until it's officially released. :)

I picked up Spore today (the 2nd of September) but I was sure the official release date was the 4th of September, so I checked out Spore.com for the release date and it says it's not actually released until the 7th of September!

Well when I got a call from Electronics Boutique today to let me know my preorder had arrived and that I could pick it up, I wasn't about to ask if they were actually supposed to release it yet, lol. Haha suckers, by the time everyone else in the world installs Spore I'll have already taken over the universe with my unstoppable race of killer bovines!!

Awesome - yet another tribute to the flexibility of Spore's creature creator!

Well, I've had a bit more time to play around with the Spore Creature Creator and as promised I've uploaded some pics of my creature dudes. Meet my babies!

It's pretty cool what you can do with limbs. You can attach just about any part to the end of any limb. For example with this next creature I attached a couple arms to it's head, made them tiny, and replaced the hands with eyes.

The editor is so easy to use and it's pretty amazing how quickly you can knock these things up even without any artistic ability - but it's so much fun you end up spending ages tweaking your creature to get it just right. I love this next one - he's just so freaky-deeky!

And what can I say, as soon as I realised I could, I couldn't resist but create Jar Jar! lol

...Don't tell him but when I get the full game I plan to populate a planet with his species, lower them into a full sense of security and then blam! I genocise them with my doom ray! Muhahahaaaaa.