Spore | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $33.32
You Save: $16.67 (33%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3105 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
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: Brand New Factory Sealed.
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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 3100 more reviews...
 I'm not necessairly mad I bought this game, but it definitely didn't live up to the hype.... October 5, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
PROs:
- Interesting, unique, creative gaming concept
- Good graphics
- Was fun to play here and there for a few weeks
CONs:
- DRM and all the baggage that comes along with it
- I'm personally not a huge fan of "sandbox" games. Interesting idea but that's about it.
- The majority of the game takes place in space. It was fun to explore and complete tasks for a while, but after a relatively short period of time the game-play becomes rather mundane.
- I don't think this is the kind of game that players are going to be too interested in for more than a short period of time.
All things considered I don't necessarily regret having bought this game, however it certainly didn't come anywhere close to living up to the hype. This was supposed to be a seminal game that would change gaming as we know it.... I just don't see that happening.
 A Total Waste of Money October 5, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I facilitated this purchase for my son. He spent his summer wages on a new iMac and this was a rare case where he spent retail with his own money for the game based on the hype. He got a few days play out of it before he tried the upgrade. Now the game is toast. Worse, the news hit that this software installs a rootkit, subverting the host operating system in the fashion of the Sony root kit that infected over 6 million systems in America alone and provided common back doors for easy access to customer systems for Internet criminals. That led to an EFF-driven class action settlement that was, itself, and exercise in cheap lawyerly cynicism, providing Sony with a fig leaf of propriety for a fraction of the real liability.
Now Spore won't play and the system has to be reinstalled to clear these bastards' root kit. A harsh lesson in corporate malfeasance courtesy of Electronics Arts, a brand that will never enter my home again.
 Good intention but poor execution October 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an innovative idea that just wasn't finished. To me it seems like they are planning to release this game as a skeleton to flesh out in future releases, but who wants to buy an incomplete game. The space stage is fun, and seems to be where they spent most of their time, but the other stages are short and relatively pointless. My guess is they will release expansions for us to buy to flesh out those other areas.
If you are a designer and have good imagination, you will love this game, otherwise, play at a friends house.
The game is also filled with bugs. Installations, DRM, random crashes, Spore has them all. If this were released on a console it would have been laughed out of the market, but since its PC they seem to think its ok to release a game that is 80% or less. Look up spore bugs and you will see what I'm talking about.
If you are planning on buying this game, wait a few months, till they come out with some updates to make the game actually function.
Do NOT buy it!!!! October 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First of all you can only install it 3 times!!! So lets say your computer breaks or you move and get a new computer you have to call and nag in order to install the game YOU bought and paid.
The game is entertaining for about 2 or 3 days, but it gets boring really fast. If you are a carnivore you will go around killing animals (which sounds more found than it really is), and if you are a herbivore you have to go around dancing and tapping making friends ?!? I wonder if a creature does get smarter by dancing and singing???
Evolution is completely irrelevant in the game, you may have a creature with 6 feet and at any moment decide to have only one foot then you can go ahead. In reality evolution is a gradual process and prior mistakes may severely affect your future (you can become an evolutionary dead end like the Neanderthals).
So in conclusion, do not buy it. It's boring and in my opinion extremely overpriced, maybe for 10 or 15 bucks sure I would give it 2 or 3 starts, but for 50$ I expect something better.
drm spoiling fun October 4, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
unfortunately, as fun as it is, i can't (legally) share the fun i'm having. not only it is impossible to lend a friend this game (as we usually do with books), but it is also impossible to have someone over to play and enjoy at your house.
if this was a movie, it would be one of the best ever, but drm would mean you'd have to (always) watch it all by yourself, and even letting someone else watch (by himself/herself) is not allowed.
spoiled fun, that is.
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