Rock, Paper, Shotgun

I believe the children are our future. Well, the MMO industry’s future, anyway – colourful online words aimed at rugrats look set to be the next great white hope, now that people seem less keen on trying to snatch a piece of tasty WoW pie. I’ve just been wandering around the beta of Freaky Creatures, which is best described as City of Heroes’ character creator (only with super-deformed cartoon monsters) meets Pokemon’s arena-style fighting and The Sims’, um, sleeping.
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There’s a new trailer up for Freaky Creatures, an online 1-vs-1 combat game with Spore-esque nobs is up, showing off its Spore-esque nobs. It is here, in this post, embeded for your convenience.

Hmm. While the basic concept of being able to design your fighting game character is a neat one – if horrific to balance in any meaningful way, I suspect – designing your own fighting game character to fight in that fighting game is a somewhat less appealing prospect. I suspect the forthcoming Beta will make things clear.