Components: 100 die-cut counters, rules folder;

Map: 11"x 17" area-movement map of an imaginary city;

Scales: individual monster to police/ National Guard companies.

This was the first and most enduringly popular of SPI's Space Capsule games, their effort to hom in on the market for small SciFi/fantasy games. The basic situation is the familiar B-movie "single monster takes on an entire city", but in Moves 49, a variant written by Glenn L. Williams appeared that allowed players to simulate situations of urban guerrilla warfare with all the attendant civil disorders. Rules for agent provocateurs, snipers, terrorist assault teams, riots, counter- terror teams, etc., were included, as was a standard riot scenario.

Creature was released in both folio and one-inch box format. Copies are not hard to get hold of ($5/$31/$14.78 at auction and $45/$40/$14.33) for sale').

(Creature was also released by SPI UK with its own, arguably inferior, box-cover artwork but all else being identical. -ed)

More Civil Wargames

Introduction

On Topic Titles

Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!
The Cities Game
Chicago, Chicago!
Minuteman
LA Lawless
Civil Power

Peripheral Titles

The Creature That Ate Sheboygen
CityFight