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| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1149
Format: DVD-ROM
Languages: German (Manual), German (Subtitled)
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
Condition: PC U.S. DVD-ROM
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 Ongoing Spore Adventure February 1, 2010
Thomas M. Mcginley
My wife and I having played Spore for a while, found the new expansion pack entertaining. If you like the tribal and Creature stages of Spore, you'll enjoy the expansion pack. I highly recommend it.
The whole family loves it. January 30, 2010
Emily Jo Ard
I have 2 boys, my husband, and I even play it while my 1 year old sits on my lap watching. We all love it!
 Doesn't work on snow leopard; developer doesn't care about mac platform December 17, 2009
William Pugh (Bethesda, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We haven't been able to get Spore or Spore GA to work on snow leopard (the current version of the Macintosh operating system). Several different kinds of fatal crashes, developer has acknowledged incompatibilities since September. At that point, EA blamed Apple for the bug, but no updates from either EA or Apple since September.
Like a new game over and over December 8, 2009
Spot (Los Angeles)
My 8 year old plays this over and over...loves it. Loves getting greation ideas from the community and expanding on them for himself. Made a Mario Bros. game and Snow Village game. Made a scavenger hunt game that looked just like our neighborhood. Very cool. Great value.
Fails to clear an already low bar November 28, 2009
Impulse (Mobile, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While I was not pleased with the DRM issues of the original Spore, I did install and play the game and found it to be a decent time killer that was good for sporadic play sessions. I "completed" the game with a couple of different creations and would occasionally hop on to expand my empires further. Figuring that most of the annoyances of DRM issues were tied to the core product, I decided I might as well grab the expansion. Unfortunately upon installing Galactic Adventures, I was immediately annoyed. One of the few positives of the original Spore's protections was that the CD wasn't required to be in the drive to play it. So of course, installing GA causes Spore to now require a CD to run. Minor annoyance to be sure, but still, a negative.
The expansion itself can best be described as disappointing. The missions are very simplistic, and the gameplay for them is essentially the same thing as the creature stage. You might have to pick up an item and bring it to someone else, kill some enemies, or talk to some npcs, but it adds very little to the gameplay. I has hoped that the expansion would add a little more depth to the game, but the Maxis designed missions are all pretty basic. And you'll go through the small amount of them quickly, and be left to user designed missions, which as others have noted, are seldom worth playing. They're mostly either designed as jokes, or just poorly designed. Gaining experience is a time tested way to keep people playing repetitive content, but it quickly lost its luster in GA for me. The small amount you can get from user designed adventures doesn't help.
Unfortunately, I haven't found the expansion to add anything of value to the game, and at best is a poor use of money. For me, it's actually kept me from playing Spore at all, as I never feel like digging up the CD to play. The lackluster nature of the expansion has also tempered my interest in the core game. Unfortunately, I doubt you can remove GA without deleting and reinstalling spore (and using up one those installations!), and playing through again just doesn't have much appeal.
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