Spore | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy Used: $27.49
You Save: $22.50 (45%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3111 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 19080
Model: 15352
UPC: 014633153521
EAN: 0014633153521
ASIN: B000FKBCX4
Release Date: September 7, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: In great shape, may have light wear.
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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
The creators of The Sims present the next big bang - SPORE. Create your unique creature and guide it on an epic journey through a universe of your own creations. Play any way you choose in the five evolutionary phases of Spore: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. How you play and what you do with your universe is entirely up to you. Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships.
PC Minimum - Windows XP/Vista, 6 GB Hard Drive Space, 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent, 768 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 Mac Minimum - Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher, 4.7GB Hard Drive Space, Intel Core Duo Processor, 1024 MB RAM; ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
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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 CREATORFinally 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 ONLINEWhile 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 RequirementsThis game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac) - PC Minimum - Windows XP/Vista
- 6 GB Hard Drive Space
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 768 MB RAM
- 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- Mac Minimum - Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
- 4.7GB Hard Drive Space
- Intel Core Duo Processor
- 1024 MB RAM
- ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3106 more reviews...
 Hype inversely proportional to quality once again October 6, 2008
Although Spore is initially quite impressive, given the novelty of such extensive use of user-designed content, the game quickly becomes disappointing. Creature design (vehicles and buildings also) is essentially cosmetic, aside from a few minor effects in one stage of the game. The game itself, rather than being a single, coherent experience, is divided into 5 mini games (stress on mini), each of which feels very incomplete. On the second or third time playing through, gameplay becomes very formulaic, like playing solitaire without shuffling. I never expect a game to live up to the hype (especially this much hype) but Spore doesn't even come close. Maybe Maxis plans to make us buy half a dozen expansions before the game is worth the base $50 price (see Sims).
 Don't believe the hype October 6, 2008
Unbelievable. Look how quickly people jump on the bandwagon. Securom isn't anything new. A lady at work asked me today if it was safe to by Spore, would it destroy her computer. Ridiculous hype. But what can you expect from a community used to making easy illegal copies?
I own two copies now, having just bought a second copy so we could play on our mac too. The whole family has really enjoyed this game. I just got the 40 hours of play time badge this weekend. The only thing I wish they would have done differently is the beginning stages in the tide pool. We would have liked it to be longer and more involved. My children are still amazed with the creations that are possible and constantly call me to come look at what they've made, beaming with pride.
It's sad how powerful the illegal copy community has become to end up with the kind of reviews that are plastered all over this game which deserves much more than one star.
This is a genuinely fun game, played by a house full of gamers. I recommended it to my friends.
 Forget the Naysayers, this game is FUN October 6, 2008
Geesh, talk about a bunch of whiny little kids. What isn't to love about this **game**? Very little. It has fantastic graphics, an innovative game play engine, a very extensive galaxy to explore, and it is fun! My wife and I got this game and so far have barely had time to come up for air. Installing it was easy, no problems there, and the game explained itself. Sure, I'd love it if it were more complex; I had hoped that it would be more complicated than it is, but I have certainly still had a wonderful time playing it, and that is ultimately why I buy a game.
For all the folks who are so angry about the DRM--let's give it a rest. Yes, EAGames has instituted a pretty draconian system here, but as long as you know about it before you buy, then you know what you are getting. I say that in this case, the fun outweighs the annoyance of a company trying to control me.
At least until I hit that magic 3 installation mark. Then I might find myself whining as much as the other toddlers here on this site.
 Repetitive and computer slowdown October 6, 2008
The DRM install slowed my computer and forced me to reformat just to be able to use my software.
The game play is boring and predictable, with game generated events that attempt to force a course of play and do not allow any of the "freedom" to explore and build like the advertisements imply.
It was worth it. October 6, 2008
After reading all of the reviews good and bad, about the game and about the software I made the decision to buy it anyway. It was totally worth it. It is a fun game that takes hours upon hours away from your life, that is if you have hours to take away. It is is amusing as well as puzzeling. Either way I say it is 100% worth it to buy the game, this is if you want to get addicted.
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