Aspects of this Thing's
creature design seemed culled directly from a Resident Evil game.
It looks like this will be sufficiently epic and the special effects certainly give a much - needed update to the original, but is it just me or do some of
the creature designs seem like a rip off of Pan's Labyrinth?
Not exact matches
Likewise, the generic
creature design feels just about as uninspired as the storytelling, though the special - effects team does manage the impressive feat of making the alien technology
seem at once highly advanced and vulnerable to attack.
Arranged in a spacious
design that resembles a Shel Silverstein collection with its pairing of ink drawings and short lines of verse, the images feature odd flights of fancy and
creatures that are not quite what they
seem.
The legend himself, Will Wright
seems very excited about giving players this opportunity, «We are thrilled to finally be putting the creative tools of Spore into the hands of players around the world,» he continues, «The amazing creations players
design this summer will help populate the game universe we all enter when Spore ships this September, so in a sense, the Spore
Creature Creator is the birth of Spore.»
There are
creatures that are encountered but their ever - morphing
design makes it
seem as if Sensua's mind is running wild with what these
creatures may look like based on the sounds they're making as you move around them.
There's a whole host of Spirits to create, but there are several drawbacks: primarily, the appalling character
designs for each Spirit, which are like rejected anime cutesy
creature designs, which
seems completely at odds with the usually stellar art direction associated with Square Enix games.
«It
seems their makers limited the
creatures to some evolutionary
designs that were not particularly efficient even in dinosaurs... ironic.»
Capcom
seems to be taking a page or two out of Silent Hill's book on freaky ass
creature design, because the
creatures that star in this latest batch of art and screenshots that were posted on the official Resident Evil Facebook are just gross enough that I could mistake a few of them as belonging to our favorite foggy town.