Creatures 3
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Video Game Reviews of Creatures 3
Customer Review: Creatures 3
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent. The interface between player and creature is vastly improved over Creatures 2. The norns are *much* smarter than before and more obedient. The game is delightful. You can set it up so you have only norns,if you wish. The only drawback I'd have was I was dissipointed in the medical unit. It is slow and cumbersome to use,however with C3 Docker coming out this summer,CL should improve this (I hope).Customer Review: The greatest game ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't think this is a virtual pet game. The creatures are infinitely more complex than that. They're so complex that the creators of the game cannot know what might happen then. And that makes it an exciting game. "None of the behavior you see has been specifically programmed" says in the creatures' 1 manual. And it's true. You may think this is a children's game, but that's not true. Ok, children may love the game, but adults can use it too. In my opinion, this game is the best game of the history of humanity. Don't you see? We've made *real* animals!Customer Review: Best game in the Creatures series!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best games ever! If you are familiar with Creatures, Creatures 2, or Creatures Adventures, get this! It is the greatest Creatures game ever! There are five main "rooms" in all: the Norn terrarium, the bridge, the desert/Ettin terrarium, the aquatic (or "fish") terrarium, and the jungle/Grendle terrarium. Ettins will steal machinery, and Grendles will steal eggs, and kill Norns. Both can carry sicknesses. I suggest starting out with the Norn family. Also, the Grendle and Ettin eggs will not hatch if you place them in the Pirahna pond. There are two of each egg, and they will come out at different times. There are three types of Norns. Thwo have two names, one given by Cyberlife, and the other givin by thenewsreaders in alt.games.creatures . The names are: Civit/Cow (the reason is quite obvious), Bruin, adn Bengal/Tiger. My opinion, is that the Tiger Norns are the cutest, and hardiest. Some disadvantages are that the appelets are gone. It is harder to find out if your Norns are sick, inject them with helpful (or not so helpful, depending on how you play it) chemicals, and to veiw the chemicals in their bloodstream. The system requirements say at least 32 megs of RAM, and a 200mhz CPU, but I strongly suggest that you have at least 250mhz CPU and 64 megs of RAM. Otherwise, it will run very slowly with more than four Norns. Some little helpful bits about the game: ctrl + shift + w will take you to the wolfling control. There you can set the game to fast mode. F1 will bring up the "Helpful hand." Left click to teach a Norn a name to an object. Right click to get information on an object, such as interesting info on a robin, or the function of a peice of machinery. ctrl + shift + c will bring up the CAOS input box. CAOS means Creatures Agent Object Source. Here are examples of what you can do with it: Type "enum 2 24 4 attr 199 next endm" to make pickups pickupable, so you can take them to your Norns. Type "enum 2 24 1 attr 199 next endm" to make the stone of knowledge in the Grendle terrarium pickupable. Type "meta * 1 1 1" to go to a different room. Replace the * with numbers 0 to 9. Play around with that one, and you may find a few interesting places...Customer Review: Great Game!
Summary: 5 Stars
Creatures 3 is a great game! You can explore all different places with your creatures called Norns. You can teach, breed, make eggs, pull your Norn around, and lots more things! This is a great game. I also have Creatures 2. It's fun, but I think Creatures 3 is better. there are better graphics and more things to explore!Customer Review: 5 Stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
Norns, the cute creatures you take care of, are artificial life. Creatures Labs has made the first (and only, so far) publicly released game like this. Norns have artificial brains they use to think for themselves, a bloodstream, digestive system and everything. All they do is their choice alone, not like a ramdomized list of things to do. They have a world to roam around in, can get disease, mate, have children and die. Each norn can speak to you, using their immense vocab. One, when it's hunger drive goes up, it'll find what it needs and announces it. "Alice hungry for starch." Norns can say if they hate, dislike, like, or love eachother and have their own distinct personalities. They take good care of themselves through trial and error, and can remember things that've happened to them. Creatures 3 is by far the best yet, at a great price... It's been very succesful, I strongly suggest you use a search engine and find out a little, as that's the best way. Or their site @ creatures.com. Anyway, this game has a HUGE world to explore with top-of-the-line graphics and great smoothness, quick installation for it's size(11 minutes or so and you're ready to go!) Also problems are non-existant, unlike C1 and 2 that crashed alot. This game is also highly addictive and never gets boring, you'll look forward to seeing your favorite norns and their families every day. Age probably ranges 11 and up just since it'd be too difficult for younger ages. Don't mistake this for a kids game, it's quite interesting and complex. Many people have been messing with norn genetics to make cool hybrids. (like highlanders, named after the movie. These norns live forever.)The world they're in is ever-evolving, you can play with all the little animals around them and the game is full of neat stuff to explore. If you're interested at all, GET IT. (sorry for this thing's length, I love the game so much I get carried away...)