It's a familiar story by now that people are using the Spore Creature Creator to make creatures shaped like video game controllers and characters. But it wasn't until I searched the Sporepedia for the term "Pikmin" that I realized just how close these creations will let gamers get to making their copy of "Spore" look like some other game.
Case in pint: populate your world of "Spore' with all these "Pikmin" creations come September when the virtual-evolution simulator is released, and you just may have something that looks like "Pikmin 3."
I captured some animations to show how close fans are getting:
Three more after the jump:
