Spore | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  3296 reviews
Sales Rank: 584
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 15352
Model: 15352
UPC: 014633153521
EAN: 0014633153521
ASIN: B000FKBCX4
Release Date: September 7, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Epic journey from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and outer space exploration | | • | Play any way you choose in the five evolutionary phases of Spore: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space | | • | Grow, evolve, interact with and battle other cultures, and conquer the planet | | • | Visit literally millions of planets full of other player's creations | | • | Single-player game provides unlimited worlds to explore and play |
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Product Description
From the creators of The Sims comes Spore, where you evolve a single-celled organism into a galactic god whose personality and abilities are completely up to you. Then interact with other players' creatures-including ones made by celebrities! EA Games. PC/MAC, NDS.
Amazon.com
Create universal wonder in Spore, an exciting new simulation game that lets you develop your own personal universe. Work your way through five evolutionary phases, including Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization and Space, that offer unique challenges, thrills and goals. For example, you can start in Cell and nurture one species from a simple aquatic organism all the way until it becomes a sentient life form. Or you can jump right in and begin building tribes and civilizations on multiple planets. What you do with your universe is totally up to you.
The powerful creation tools of Spore are easy to use, allowing you to effortlessly design every aspect of your universe. Creatures, vehicles, building and even starships are all within your grasp. While Spore is a single-player game, your creations and other players' creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, offering a nearly limitless number of worlds to visit and enjoy. You can also go online to view the incredible things other players have made and can even pull those items into your universe. Spore gives you the chance to make worlds and beings that evolve, grow and delight you every step of the way.   SPORE CREATURE CREATOR Finally all that hard work creating the perfect being can be put to good use. Import creatures that you created with the Spore Creature Creator and watch them live, breath and thrive in the full version of Spore. TAKE YOUR SPORE ONLINE While Spore is a single player game, your creations and other players’ creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play within. Internet Connection Required. Minimum System Requirements This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac) - PC Minimum - Windows XP/Vista
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 512 MB RAM/768 MB RAM
- 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
- At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations
- Mac Minimum - Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
- Intel Core Duo Processor
- 1024 MB RAM
- ATI X1600 or NVIDIA 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
- At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations
- This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac), or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards
- For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:
- Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above
- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
- 768 MB RAM
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 WHO CARES ABOUT DRM! November 20, 2009
I bought this game a month after it came out. I read the review talking about some sort of DRM thingy. Well I learned that DRM just keeps you from installing it more than 3 times. Just install spore onto a laptop with vista or install spore on a mac notebook and then bring the laptop to your friends house. But get a mouse because it is easier to move the camera. The goal of the game is to evolve from a cell to into the space stage Let's get to the point. Here are the Pros and Cons
Pros
360 view with just holding the right and left mouse button
great graphics
complete control of your creature
large varity of parts for your creatures
desision to kill or befriend creatures
in the civilization stage you can make your own vehicles
large amount of weapons and other tools to use in space stage
easy controls
awesome superweapons in civilization stage
Cons
no game over
not a lot of different weapons in civilization
have to evolve to land
I would recommend this game for 5-12 years olds. For 12 years old it might be too easy but for 5 year olds a little challenging and frustrating. This game is a best buy. [...]! I hope you will buy this great game
 Tedious and difficult to advance. November 18, 2009
redcat72 (Laurel, MD)
Let me start off by saying I was really excited for this game. The concept is interesting, but it doesn't really fulfill itself. I did enjoy the additional functionality of the creature creator. But it still felt a bit too limiting because of the points each item possessed. Therefore you could not be truly creative. I had the Prima game guide and tried to follow that. Although it felt more like I HAD to get to the next level rather than play a certain one for a while. It appeared there was really no point to stay at a certain level anyway. Then when I tried to advance to the Space level, I could never do it even with the help of the guide. It was just too much of a pain in butt. If it's frustrating and difficult to reach the next level, then why continue playing? Therefore I stopped after only a couple weeks. There was nowhere else for me to go, and it really felt tedious after a while. I certainly wasn't inspired to start all the way at the beginning again either. I think that not having actual people, like in Sims, that you don't really feel like you care about your creatures or what happens to them. Disappointing.
Outstanding playability and age range enjoyment November 15, 2009
MHz (DC Metro Area)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had this game for over a year. It came with my computer, so I have a CD for it. I was browsing around amazon looking for the next SPORE game for my family when I saw the very low rating for this game. Truly, I'm shocked. This game is AWESOME! It's addictive, engaging, and you can play it over and over again.
In our family, it has HUGE playability. My younger children can't play the game (I don't think the graphics of the creatures fighting one another is appropriate), but I let them go into the creator mode. They all LOVE the creature creator and the ability to build all the buildings and vehicles. It's like a futuristic crayon-and-paper activity for them as they build creatures, alter limbs, color, name and experiment with the movements of all of their creations.
The older kids have enjoyed playing the game end-to-end and I've enjoyed watching them experience the consequences of their choices... only to go back and start a new game to try a different approach. My son started out enjoying fighting all of the other creatures until he figured out it made it a LOT harder for him to advance... and that it was a good idea to make some friends along the way. My daughter, meanwhile, befriended everyone along the way from the start and refuses to fight anything. That doesn't work very well if you're a carnivore because at some point you'll starve.
I also love the game and find myself up late at night trying to earn one more badge or find one more purple spice planet to take over. It's fun and there are layers of creativity built in every level. I'm enjoying the planet sculpting in the Space stage now. Like I said, we've had the game for a year and I would say it is THE most played with (and occasionally fought over) game in the house.
Having said all that, I do have a very powerful computer, and I think that makes a difference. I've played other EA simulation games on lesser machines and it can be excruciating and frustrating. If you have the right machine, this game truly is a fun family game.
Spore November 10, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Spore is a good game I recommended it to my friends and they loved it! until I reached the tribal stage it as hard a first but i got through.
 SecuROM - never again! November 2, 2009
Sporky
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was the first and will be the LAST SecuROM product I'll ever buy.
The game starts off good enough, but eventually just becomes tedious and pointless.
Giving it to the local thrift shop while there's still an activation or two left. I'll include a note that the DRM stuff will soon make it worthless. Might be worth paying a buck for.
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