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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $34.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3140 reviews
Sales Rank: 96
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 19080
Model: 15352
UPC: 014633153521
EAN: 0014633153521
ASIN: B000FKBCX4
Release Date: September 7, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 3135 more reviews...
 DRM Fascists November 17, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is also bundled with a Fascist DRM. Giving further support to this game goes against what the Internet believes and was made for. Also, this game is for kids!
 This Game is fun! November 16, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is awesome. I love the flexibility of the create a creature mode and its fun to go around killing creatures and taking over the universe! Its a great game especially if you're into biology and the theory of molecular evolution like I am. This game allows you to use a wide range of imagination! I love that!
 Not much fun November 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Everyone has raised such a stink about the copy protection that I don't know how many people have noticed that this game just isn't that much fun.
I was excited about the "evolution" aspect of the game, but the evolution phases of the game aren't so much like evolution as they are like customizing a car. You earn money (DNA points) and you can buy or trade in body parts without any restrictions based on what the last incarnation of your creature was like. In real evolution, existing parts can change to take on new functions but in the game you can just trade in an arm and grow two more eyes somewhere else.
The only respect in which your choices have any long term impact is at the end of each stage of the game. For each stage, a tally is made of how much meat you ate vs how many plants, or how many species you killed off vs how many you befriended, to determine your "type"...carnivore or herbivore, predatory or social, etc. Each label that you get tagged with determined your special abilities later in the game.
The first two stages (with physical "evolution") are the only novel parts of the game. The later stages are highly simplified versions of other well known strategy games.
 I, for one, love Spore (with a few minor quibbles) November 14, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I, for one, love Spore (with a few minor quibbles). Yeah, there could be more depth to the actual game play- I am especially disappointed with the Civization stage. And it does seem silly that, e.g. a critter with six legs has the same movement traits as one with two (or even one).
That said, however, I find myself getting absorbed by this game for hours at a time, especially in the Space stage, which seems (and probably is) practically endless with what you can do in it. Even in my primary game I can only claim to have explored a small fraction of the galxay.
More than the game itself, though, I find the various creators fascinating, and I'm constantly browsing the Sporepedia looking at other people's creations (and looking for inspiration for my own).
Are game like Civilization more detailed and 'deep'? Certainly. But Spore is just plain fun- which half the time is all I'm really looking for anyway. I get all the depth (and tedium) I need in my life from work, thank you very much.
Break the chains. November 13, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I don't think many of you fully appreciate why so very many people are livid about the DRM schemes employed in this game.
Our company lost three full days of production when our internet provider accidentally blacklisted the liscence servers for our production software. We had to have the software provider overnight us a new hardware key to bypass the internet validation. Now Spore uses an even more aggressive DRM scheme meaning that the $60 you spent on a game is going to lead to obscene amounts of time with tech support.
Many of you will argue that they have to have it to prevent piracy, and you would be entirely wrong. It takes no effort to find a user friendly DRM free, cost free download for the game (or any other software). The pirated DRM free version was even available before the legitimate version.
Do not support companies that use such strong arm tactics against legitimate customers! It will only hurt us all in the end.
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