Apparently there are only 1.5 million species in the world, but that's only the real-world count. In the gaming world, Spore Creature Creator has churned out 1.8 million creatures that have been created by people using system. It's only been a month since the Spore Creature Creator has been out; so all those creatures have been created in such a short span. What even more quirky, 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 but they crossed that number in just 22 hours.

EA informs that National Geographic has put together a documentary on evolution using Spore that will air the week the game ships. You will be able to find that docu in the Galactic Edition of the game.

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