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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy Used: $27.49
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Rating:  3119 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
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 3114 more reviews...
 Forget the Naysayers, this game is FUN October 6, 2008
Storylover (Philadelphia, PA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
For me, a home run September 27, 2008
Scott Baron (Bronx, NY USA)
9 out of 26 found this review helpful
I know folks have DRM issues, but I got lucky and the game loaded seamlessly on my Vista machine.
For me, the game is everything I wanted. I expect expansions will only enhance the game further.
I haven't had a game do this to me since the original Civilization, many, many moons ago.
Based on actually playing the game, it's lots of fun September 17, 2008
D. Atwood (San Diego, CA USA)
26 out of 72 found this review helpful
Don't be fooled by the masses who attacked this game with bad reviews without even playing it, just because they are philosophically opposed to DRM.
Is that the most important factor? No. This is a game, and games are judged on whether or not they are fun. Spore is fun.
The creature creator alone makes this software worth purchasing. It's easy to lose yourself for hours experimenting with the creator to see what you can make. Everything you create can then be shared with other players of the game, so somewhere out there someone will be playing the game with your creations showing up in their world.
The first stage - playing a single celled organism in the tidal pool - is the same mindless fun of the old arcade game Chomp. You swim around, eat as much as you can, grow as fast as you can, and try to avoid being eaten. Break it up with the occasional trip into the creature creator to evolve your creature with new parts, or just move your parts around and change your coloration. Once you have the hang of it, you'll probably be going back to collect all the achievements possible in that stage.
Each successive stage gets more complicated in gameplay, and the available options for tweaking things in the creator mode get more and more advanced. Just as your creature evolves, so does the gameplay, growing from classic arcade style to advanced strategy sim.
You can pretty much jump in to the game at almost any level (Space stage needs to be unlocked though gameplay) so you can focus on the part that is most fun for you. If you like creating, you can spend all your time making creatures, buildings, cars, boats, planes, and spaceships. If you like strategy games, you can focus on the civilization stage. Or you can play straight through from single-celled organism to intergalactic conqueror.
Big Fun for the Whole Family September 30, 2008
Michelle Cummings (Glenview, IL)
5 out of 26 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my 10 year old son. It turns out we have to set the timer, because my 8 year old daughter, 6 year old son and my husband and I all love it. We have had absolutely no technical issues, just fun, fun, fun.
Good, Challenging Game October 4, 2008
Reader (Baltimore MD)
5 out of 27 found this review helpful
Please ignore all of the misleading posts regarding the company's choice of copy protection software (DRM). It has nothing to do with the quality of the game - which is very good. Perhaps the best feature is that you have full control over the strategy that you pursue. You can be as aggressive or collaborative as you wish and still build a full realized system. While it is not an accurate simulation of biological evolution, it does have one feature in common: there are multiple and diverse pathways that can be taken.
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