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Tried it years ago (whilst in the middle of 20 years of veggiedom). It's horrible, but it works in limited ways if you chug enough of the stuff. You end up with more water retention in the muscles, and you get a slight improvement in the ability to repeat short MAXIMAL efforts. It has no effect on endurance / aerobic systems.
The thing is, knowing how it's meant to work, whilst taking it you tend to end up doing more very short interval stuff which in itself will be giving you an edge. Having done this kind of thing with and without creatine, I'd still say there's a marginal gain with it, but it's not worth the bloated feeling, the extra water-based mass, or the ritual of downing the disgusting stuff. Waste of money. Can't remember if there's a food-based alternative in a veggie diet which can emulate it to any extent.
For the record, I've been an omnivore again for a couple of years, and nothing much has changed aside from what appears to be a slightly more resilient immune system based on patterns of illness. Performance is still at genetically / technically defined levels.