Spore Galactic Adventures | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 736
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 197184
Model: 014633153545
UPC: 014633153545
EAN: 0014633153545
ASIN: B001NPCTDC
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Terraform planets and for the first time place buildings, creatures, vehicles. | | • | Play Maxis-created missions all over the galaxy, featuring puzzle, combative, racing, and social gameplay styles. | | • | Level up your space captain and ans be rewarded by earning more than 30 powerful new accessories including Energy Blade, Acrobat Dance, Hover, Stunning Charm, Jump Jet. | | • | Create your own missions with the all-new Adventure Creator and then share then online. | | • | Play and rank an endless supply of adventures when you join the vibrant SPORE community. |
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Amazon.com Product Description
SPORE Galactic Adventures is the first SPORE level expansion pack*. Through it PC gamers will experience deeper space stage gameplay than ever before. For the first time, players' spacefaring creatures will be able to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions. This add-on allows players to beam down to planets, play mission-based adventures and even create their own customized adventures for the first time. 
Level up your Space Captain.
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30+ powerful accessories.
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Create & share missions online.
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Arrange society as you like.
View larger. | In SPORE Galactic Adventures each adventure has a unique reward to upgrade a space creature with special accessories -- from an Energy Blade and Stunning Charm, to a Jump Jet and more. Players can fight their way to victory as a Warrior, dance with new friends as a Bard, and much more. Also, a new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions, providing almost endless gameplay possibilities. *Requires the original SPORE to play. Key Features: - Play Maxis-created missions all over the galaxy, featuring puzzle, combative, racing, and social gameplay styles.
- Level up your space captain and ans be rewarded by earning more than 30 powerful new accessories including Energy Blade, Acrobat Dance, Hover, Stunning Charm, Jump Jet.
- Create your own missions with the all-new Adventure Creator and then share then online.
- Play and rank an endless supply of adventures when you join the vibrant SPORE community.
- Terraform planets and for the first time place buildings, creatures, vehicles.
System Requirements: | Minimum PC Specifications: | Minimum Mac Specifications: | | OS: | Windows Vista/Window XP | Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher | | Processor: | 2.0 GHz P4 or higher | Intel Core Duo Processor | | RAM: | 768 MB Vista/512 MB XP | 1024 MB RAM | | Video Card: | 128 MB video card, with Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported cards: ATI Radeon series: 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3650, 3850; NVIDIA GeForce series FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100. The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista | ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. Supported cards: ATI Radeon series: X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600; NVIDIA GeForce series 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3100.This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based mac systems. | | DVD-ROM: | 4x DVD-ROM drive or faster | 4x DVD-ROM drive or faster | | Hard Drive Space: | 3GB free hard drive space | 3GB free hard drive space | | Other: | Keyboard or other input device | Minimum PC Specifications |
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Product Description
Spore Galactic Adventures (expansion pack) for PC & Mac...Beam Down to New Adventures. In Spore you evolved your creature from tidepool blob to galactic traveler. For the first time ever get out of your starship bring your closest allies with you and explore all-new adventure-packed worlds. Complete quests collect the rewards then create and share your own missions. This expansion significantly enlarges the space portion of the original game and even grants players the opportunity to create and share their own planetary adventures with other folks in the Spore munity. In place of the rather tedious space missions from the original game players will now encounter a wealth of user-created missions that require your species to actually descend to the surface of the planet and undertake a variety of interesting tasks. Upgrade your space creature with 32 new game-changing accessories and abilities including the Plasma Pulser and Hypnomelder; Create and share your own unique missions on personalized planets with the all-new Adventure Creator; Play dozens of Maxis-created adventures; Solve the mystery of the Energy Crystals; Help Barbaros defeat Gangor in the Arena of Death.
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 Mac Users Beware November 6, 2009
R. Sauchuck (Baltimore, MD United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My sons love the original Spore. I was hoping this expansion pack would bring the fun of the Creature and Tribal stages to the latter part of the game (since Civilization and Space are frankly boring)
I installed GA on my PowerMac and right away I knew there was going to be trouble. Error messages about installer scripts not working properly began to show up. The installer seemed to finish successfully though. Then the kids tried to play the game. It seemed to work in the Captain outfitter stage but as soon as they went on to an adventure CRASH! Over and over. I checked the EA site and it appears there is a patch ... for PC only. I was invited to enter my name on there mailing list so when they eventually decide to get around to fixing this buggy POS (piece of software) they will let me know. Others have had similar issues as noted in the EA forums.
What was supposed to be fun for my kids was instead disappointing and frustrating. My 10 year old even offered to pay ME back for my wasted money because he felt so bad about it. Thanks EA for once again punishing your customers.
 Amazing Expansion Pack October 18, 2009
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'll start with the technical subjects. Firstly, installing this game took a very long time. My dad and I had to re-install the original game, install Galactic Adventures, then get 4 updates, each of which loaded slowly, but things went in general smoothly after that. Although occasionally the game crashes, erasing all progress I haven't yet saved.
Not uncommonly, while playing an adventure, I'll accidently walk my avatar into a something, like a wall, and get stuck. Once you get stuck it's nearly impossible to get out. This glitch is very annoying, because it means the player has got to start the adventure all over again. However, there are lots of good things about this game, too. Making your very own adventures is lots of fun. You can make adventures based on real events! And, of course, you get to play adventures, too! Sometimes adventure's can be quite complicated. Some adventures are super fun. Maxis should make more adventures, though. Since Maxis adventures give your captain 100 points, while non-Maxis one usually give much less. Your captain needs these points to gain new accessories (weapons etc.)
I really like all the great new accessories. You get a wide variety of cool weapons for your captain and some of the friendly accessories are quite fun. Also Galactic Adventures lets you put exo-skeleton limbs on your creatures.
All in all Spore Galactic Adventures is an awesome expansion pack to the original game.
Why "Galactic Adventures" fails. September 17, 2009
Alexander Landa (Livermore, CA United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Let me start with singling out the most useful feature of "Galactic Adventures". The rate of eco-disasters drops from approx 1/min (with 5 disasters occurring simultaneously at a time) to 1/4 hours. This is truly a great tweak that allows you to explore the galaxy without having to worry about your empire dying out as soon as you leave your home world. However, this should be is a tiny patch, not an expansion pack. I doubt it was intended, but you need to buy this product to make Spore vanilla playable.
Now, let's look at the main shtick of "Galactic Adventures" - the RPG missions in the Spore universe. The idea is good, may be even great: your creature from the "Creature" stage beams down to the planet and interacts (woos/kills) other creatures. Completed adventures give you experience points, and when you level up, you get a choice to buy a new accessory (death ray/special pretty pose) for your avatar. When I first saw this I was stunned - that was exactly what had been needed to bring Spore to life.
Then, the disappointment set in. Maxis created just over a dozen of adventures; the rest was left to users. The reasoning was: users create great creatures/vehicles/buildings, let's rely on them creating adventures themselves too. Here's why this doesn't work: when you design a new critter or a spaceship, you only choose its looks since the stats system is rudimentary in creatures and nonexistent in ships. With adventure design, on the other hand, you create gameplay. And, as Maxis should have known, users are bad level designers. Little Big Planet had a few gems in oceans of garbage; "Galactic Adventures" seems to follow the same tendencies. Users just don't contribute enough effort into creating good levels; that's what Maxis employees are supposed to be doing.
To make it worse, Maxis adventures award you with 100xp each; while user generated ones only give you 10xp. So, to get that new death ray, you will be stuck doing one mess of an adventure after another, after another (it may go into the hundreds for higher levels).
Maxis planned to work on creating more adventures after the release, but their Sporepedia page is virtually empty, save for one imposter who figured out that he can get his adventures into it by calling himself "the Maxis".
To sum it up - "Galactic Adventure" doesn't have many worthwhile adventures in it. The only reason to buy it is to get some tweaks for the Spore vanilla game, but this can, probably, be done just by messing with the config files.
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SPORE GALACTIC ADVENTURES September 12, 2009
NS
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
SPORE GALACTIC ADVENTURES is GREAT !!! Great for the kids and grandkids. The original SPORE game was really fun. Buy it and see ! Thank You.
GREAT FUN! September 4, 2009
Lisa K. Vojtko (Ohio USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
My twin boys absolutely love this game. They can't wait to get their homework done so they can play.
Money well spent! Lisa V.
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