Spore

Spore

Binding : DVD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Electronic Arts
Brand : Electronic Arts
Label : Electronic Arts
Publisher : Electronic Arts
Model : 15352
Platform : Macintosh
Studio : Electronic Arts
ReleaseDate : 2008-09-07

List Price: USD $49.99
Lowest Used Price: USD $14.50
Lowest New Price: USD $28.00

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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

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
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
  
  
  
  

Customer Reviews

just not good (2009-03-27)
Many of the people reviewing this game are mad about the DRM. And many are disappointed that the game was changed considerably from the trailers the designer showed during the years the game was being developed. That's why they rated the game as one of the worse ever.

However if you just look at the game itself, forgetting about the DRM and the hopes some people had for the game, what you find is a game that's just not good.

The game gives you very few options during each stage. Or at least very few options that are meaningful. You can change the way you look but the way you look has little to no effect on game play. Much of the game play is forced and gets old quickly. The computer controlled creatures never do anything interesting or surprising, but that's mostly because they never do anything.

As other reviewers have said you can find better games for free on the web.

DRM strips out the fun. Developers seriously need to take notice (2009-03-27)
DRM is too much of a hinderance. Bittorrent is just easier. I have the money but one install method sucks and the other doesn't. Which would you pick?

Draconian DRM, NO THANKS! (2009-03-25)
I'm a video game collector. If I had limited activations on my favorite games I've had for years such as Fallout 1&1, Planescape Torment, or Baldur's Gate just to name a few, my collection would be useless 5 times over by now. Over the years I've installed and re-installed games in my collection on various laptops and computers. Limited activations are a complete ripoff. This is like piracy of legitimate consumers and collectors.

SPORE= MORE EA UNPLAYABLE JUNK (2009-03-25)
I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS GAME PLAY'S. I INSTALLED IT BUT IT WILL NOT LOAD ON MY HOME SYSTEM. THE OTHER SYSTEM I HAVE IS NOT CONECTED TO THE INTERNET SO EA WILL NOT LET ME PLAY A GAME THAT I PURCHASED WITH OUT EA'S PERMISSION, (WHY). THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WASTE MY MONER ON A EA GAME. EVERY TIME I HAVE PURCHASED A GAME FROM EA OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS MY COMPUTER WAS NOT UP TO THEIR STANDARDS. I AM TIRED OF BEING TOLD THAT MY VIDEO CARD OR THE AMMOUNT OF MEMORY WAS NOT UP TO EA'S STANDARDS AND THAT I WILL HAVE TO UP GRADE TO PLAY OUR GAMES. GOOD BYE EA. MY MONEY WILL SPEND JUST AS GOOD FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S GAMES.

OK at first but it gets boring fast (2009-03-24)
This game kind of pisses me off. The potato head graphics and animation technology is great and it has to potential to be a great game but it just doesn't quite come off. The game has several phases the first two being first person (third person really) and then it goes to a RTS which is where I start to loose interest since this isn't my cup of tea. I think if they had made into an online game where you can pit your creature against other player's creatures or even computer NPC creatures it would be much more fun. The real charm of this game is the evolution and creation of your species. The problem is you are past this part after the first two phases. In the third phase your creature design has some minimal impact on game play and in subsequent phases it basically does nothing.

I gave it 3 stars because the potential is there and the creature creator is cool. However as far as game play goes it just doesn't deliver.

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