Creatures 3

{{Short description|1999 video game}} {{Infobox video game |title= Creatures 3 |image= Creatures 3 (Cover).png |alt= |developer= [[Guerrilla Cambridge|Creature Labs]] |publisher= [[Mindscape (company)|Mindscape]], [[Linux Game Publishing]] (Linux version) |designer= |engine= |series= ''[[Creatures (video game series)|Creatures]]'' |released= November 1, 1999<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 1, 1999 |title=Mindscape Entertainment Launches ''Creatures 3'', Literally |url=http://www.mindscape.com/pressrelease/pr_crea3_ships.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000302082412/http://www.mindscape.com/pressrelease/pr_crea3_ships.htm |archive-date=March 2, 2000 |access-date=October 24, 2024 |website=[[Mindscape (company)|Mindscape]]}}</ref> |genre= [[Artificial life]] |modes=[[Single-player]] |platforms= [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Macintosh]] }} '''''Creatures 3''''' is the third game in the ''[[Creatures (video game series)|Creatures]]'' [[artificial life|a-life]] game series made by [[Guerrilla Cambridge|Creature Labs]]. In this installment, the [[Shee (Creatures)|Shee]] have left Albia in a spaceship, the Shee Ark, to search for a more spherical world. The Ark was abandoned by the Shee because a meteor hit the ship, but the infrastructure still remains in working order.

There are six main "[[Closed ecological system|metarooms]]" on the ship; the Norn Terrarium, Grendel Jungle, Ettin Desert, Marine area, Bridge, and Engineering Room. The Norn Terrarium is where you can safely hatch and raise your norns. The Grendel Jungle is where the [[Grendel]] mother (egg-layer) is, and it is well suited for Grendels. The Ettin Desert is where the Ettin mother is; it is a dry, harsh environment for all creatures. The Bridge is where you will find the most gadgets, and also the most Ettins. The Engineering Room is where the Agent Creator is, with which players can create objects for the game world.

Grendels are now vicious, unlike the original ''Creatures'' Grendels; these Grendels enjoy hunting down, and then killing norns. The Ettins, which first appeared in ''[[Creatures 2|Creatures 2]]'', love gathering gadgets and taking them back to the Ettin Desert.

''Creatures 3'' runs on the CAOS engine, making it highly moddable, but now it is retired and outdated.

In December 2021, ''Creatures 3'' was released on the [[Steam (service)|Steam games service]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Creatures Docking Station - Creatures 3 on Steam |url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1797350/Creatures_Docking_Station__Creatures_3/ |website=store.steampowered.com |access-date=28 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

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== External links == *[https://creatures.wiki/Creatures_3 Creatures 3] on the ''Creatures'' wiki *{{moby game|id=/creatures-3|name=''Creatures 3''}} *[https://archive.org/details/lc2e-sun-16-jan-2000.tar01 ''Creatures 3'' source code, circa January 2000] at the [[Internet Archive]]. *[https://www.eurogamer.net/creatures3 ''Eurogamer'' review] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160818124649/http://edition.cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/02/creatures3.idg/ CNN review]

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