Creatures: The Albian Years

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simulation / educational / virtual life

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July 16, 2004

Windows XP & Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)

Creature Labs / Kalypso Media Digital

English

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Discover a large, living landscape - the surface a world called Albia. You exist in this world only as a virtual presence, a sort of remote-control existence, which the computer portrays as a hand-shaped mouse cursor. In this world are a range of locations and strange creatures, related loosely (and with considerable poetic license) to Northern myth. You begin near to the long-abandoned home of a family of Norns (small furry creatures), where a few eggs, languishing in a broken-down incubator, are almost all that remains of the Nornir race.

The first game in this twin pack introduces you to the world of artificial life technology and the Norns of Albia. Than you can discover the all-new Norns, Ettins and Grendels.

Explore the Shee Laboratories and discover the all-new Norns inhabiting a vibrant, living eco-system - find the Genetic Splicer and defend your Norns against the vicious and disease-ridden Grendels.

Creatures: The Albian Years is a compilation of: Creatures, Creatures: Life Kit 1, Creatures: Life Kit 2, Creatures 2 and Creatures 2: Life Kit 1.
Pack also includes the official Object Packs: C1 Christmas Pack 1, C1 Object Pack 1, C1 Object Pack 2, C1 Christmas Pack 2, C2 Object Pack 1 and C2 Object Pack 2.

Age requirements: ESRB Rating: EVERYONE, PEGI Rating: 3+

Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.

Average customer rating 4.5 out of 5.0

An old game, but not a bad game by any means. (by WelshBastard

WelshBastard)

For many of us, our first introduction into the realms of artifical life, or for us around my age, introduction into sciences, was this game series. In a time where the artifical life & simulation genre was dominated by "The Sims", many of this games fans stood strong dispite the numbers, and still do till this day, dispite the lack of intrest we've been seeing. And... full review

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Amazing! (by anica.vw

anica.vw)

This is a artificial life game that has loads of charm, beautiful graphics and will guarantee that you spend hours of your life exploring the two Albias with your norns and helping them rear offspring. The games run like a dream on today's computers and is not resource heavy like 3d games. There are also thousands of addons that can be downloaded for the game, to ensure that you'l never be bored with it. A must-have.

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Addicting and Frustrating (by booljayj

booljayj)

I was first exposed to Creatures when I was very young. At the time, I didn't know what to make of it. I was playing someone else's game, and as such was already presented with a fairly large group of fairly intelligent norns. I thought that the creatures were charming, and that it was fun, but I didn't really see it as a game. However, it was forever stuck in my mind after that... full review