box-art posts

Our friends at Joystiq recently acquired on the box art for EA's Sci-Fi Survival Horror game, Dead Space. It's fittingly gruesome, and it proves that the player is not the only one who can strategically dismember targets! Yes, the art features a human hand floating in space. Apparently those nasty Necromorphs got to some poor space miner. Maybe this is one of the many gruesome deaths developer Glen Schefield hinted at recently.

We noticed, of course, that the hand is floating outside the ship. That's just a reminder that we'll be able to use our grav boots in the game to walk outside on the hull of the ship. In fact, we'll be able to jump between and walk on lots of different surfaces in the game's zero gravity environments. Cool.

Earlier this year, we all learned of EA's plans to release a Spore creature creator program prior to the launch of Spore this fall. We wondered: is it a demo, a character-creation-menu of sorts, or something in between? More importantly -- when and how can we get our hands on it?

We might have an answer to the "when and how" bit now. Amazon.com's product page for the SimCity Box compilation features (or rather, featured; we'll get to that in a moment) an image of the box art for said compilation. In the top-right corner, you'll find these words: "BONUS! SPORE Creature Creator Trial Version Inside!"

The image has since been pulled, but it's all over the 'net now. So that brings us to the earlier question: is it a demo, or what? Either way, it's probably not worth spending $40 for if you've got all those SimCity games already. If you don't, it's actually not a bad deal. For everyone else; maybe it will become freely available further down the line.

[Via Joystiq]