Just a heads up, the Spore Creator Creator is now officially released and available at spore.com. The setup file is 200 meg and takes considerably less time to download than at other sources. So if you haven’t got it yet, or had problems with other packages out there, go and grab it! As reported it’s wicked cool.

Edit: If you’re having problems getting the CC to start remove the EA tool that checks for updates (if you installed it (optional)) and try again.

Game sites are literally pumping out reviews for the soon to be released Creature Creator. IGN’s got a video review, along with Eurogamer, and GameSpy, GamesRadar and Joystiq all got regular hands-ons. The latter saying this:

There’s virtually no learning curve to the creator. It’s stupendously intuitive. Without even a shred of guidance, we were instantly resizing a colorful floating blob to form the body of our creature. This was the full version of the creator, so we had access to all of the various creature parts it ships with…

Remember that the Creature Creator will be included in the gold release of the full game, in case anyone was wondering.