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
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 DRM in EULA killed it for me! |
| Review Date: March 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jeff Craig, Lake Stevens, WA USA |
I bought this for my daughter, but after reading the reviews (after I ordered-DOH!) I read about the DRM issues. After reading further reviews on CNET, I decided to cancel my order. While I am the first person to say that the creators need to be paid for their work, the use of this draconian DRM scheme is like using a neutron Bomb to control the mosquito population!
It wouldn't have worked anyway, because I don't have an 'always on' internet connection (hate paying the cable company when I can use my cell phone on my laptop). |
The best game ever
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| Review Date: March 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: William J. Everaert, |
| This is the best computer game ever! the bad reviews are do to people not reading the system requirements. And then It won't play. The game itself is amazing. everything is made by you. So if your game gets boring then your imagination is to blame. |
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| Review Date: March 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer: John Liapes, USa |
This is one of the best gsmes I ever played I can't wait for the second version to come out
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BUGS BUNNY
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| Review Date: February 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: S. R. Romano, Brooklyn NY |
wow, this game is really annoying to install. I kept getting coded errors which I had to google to discover that these are issues long ago reported to EA and they dont seem to care to fix them. I finally got the game going fr my daughter and that lasted only a day, then it wouldnt start up again - can you believe thi? Are we supposed to wipe our hard drives clean and do a full system instal every time we want to play this game? I also dont want to waste my preciou time on hold with some snot from tech support who know ALOT less thanme about computers just to get some hegemonous reply that they will look into the issue and get ack to me, which they never will.
SO all in all a very disapointing experience with Spore. Dont buy it. ever. Too bad because it looks cute for a 9 year old. |
Very Disappointed
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| Review Date: February 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Perkins, Bakersfield, CA USA |
| This is the first computer game that I have gotten in years. It was a pleasure to play it for a couple of weeks. I installed the game on my laptop and desktop. After reinstalling the OS on my desktop and getting a new hard drive in my laptop after the old one took a dump I tried to reinstall the game. No good. After the installation limit of 3 was reached the DRM took over and now the game will not even open with my registration code. I even contacted EA and they were of no help. It is quite disappointing that a paying customer cannot play the game they purchased. Don't waste your money! |
Starts fun but later looses momentum
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| Review Date: February 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: skull kid, |
| As soon as i started playing Spore i found the innovative game design very unique, also it was fun to have a part in changing the evolution of a species. However I soon found the game to become unappealing, for all the parts of the evolution are somewhat there unique game, they are all just sort of shallow. For example later on in the game, the gameplay will be like that of an RTS, but there will not be much to do. |
Too simple... No replayability. No for adults, OK for kids.
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| Review Date: February 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Katie, USA |
I am up to the civilization stage right now. This game sounded so cool when I heard about it. The notion of evolution is so complex and could make for a really smart, engaging game. Unfortunately, this game is just too simple. I don't see how it is very replayable for an adult. You can just do the same thing everytime. I think kids, however, would love this game.
I've played an aggressive game. I'm not sure what the herbivore/friendly gameplay is like, but when you do combat, you run around and click a button to attack enemies who are lower ranked than you. If they are higher ranked, you avoid them. It actually reminded me slightly of World of Warcraft, you run around with the camera behind you and click buttons for corresponding attacks. The "grind" of killing X number of enemies is the worst part of WoW and is featured in this game. For all the talk of the great graphics from people, I have to say I don't see it. The landscapes are the same all over and not very detailed.
When it comes to evolving, calling it evolution is deceiving. Evolving means exist characteristics should change a little to give you more abilities, based on the abilities you need. In this game, you can scrap everything about your creature and start from scratch everytime. There's not any strategy planning ahead needed. It can have six legs or two, doesn't matter. It just comes down to the stats for each attribute. Evolution, if I understand science, should arise out of outside forces... changes in the geography, weather, enemies species, etc. You can just do whatever you want in this game willy nilly.
In tribal mode, you just collect food, make babies and then attack neighboring tribes. It really requires zero thought. Your enemies aren't very bright and there's much you need to keep track of other than food.
I think the overall concept for the game is great, but the execution just isn't there. I think Will Wright and EA focus too much on making "simple games" that anyone can play without much of a learning curve. This is a problem. A game like Civilization 4 is probably downright overwhelming for a new player, but I don't think you'll find a more addictive, replayable game. The Sims was another great concept and was an alright game, but lacked the depth and complexity to make it a truly great game. SimCity could have so many layers and levels of engagement. I don't know why they are so reluctant to make these games all they could be.
Oh, and about the DRM issue everyone whines about: You can download this game illegally and be playing within a couple hours (depending on your download speeds). There's no point in trying to prevent piracy. You can get the Sims 3 and SimCity 4 illegally too. I promise.
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Not Worth It
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| Review Date: February 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Austin, New York |
I'm sure that this game is very fun. I'm sure it would be well worth the money. However, I wouldn't know, as the game won't run. You can see why this would be an issue. I installed the game, and after four or five patches which took about two hours, I clicked on the games icon. It began to run, then, at the peak of my utter anticipation, quit. Confused, I clicked on the icon again. It quit. It did that the next time. As well as the ten times after that. I restarted the computer, ad it still wouldn't run.
Now, this wouldn't be an issue if a solid support system was offered by EA. Due to the nature of this review, you should be able to guess how I found the support. After being endlessly redirected on EA's website to links that listed various trivial issues, but offered no help as to what to do if the game wouldn't friggin' start, I decided to call the phone number given in the instruction booklet. After going through a tedious computer-voiced hot-line, it gave me a web address to go to for help.
At this point, I'm not so much pissed as I am stunned. Why go to the trouble of setting up a help hotline if its only purpose is to give me a web address? Why not cut the phone number out of the equation and just give me the damn address? Baffled, I typed in the web address, which had many links for buying the game and its various expansions, offered no help for starting the game. I attempted to log into a help forum, but unfortunately I needed to enter the account information I set up after starting the game. Oh, wait, you were never able to start the game up? Ah, well tough luck there buddy. No help for you.
I had been eagerly awaiting this game and am now throughly disappointing. Unless you trust EA with your life, I urge you not to risk purchasing this game. Not only for this reason, but for the thousand utter technical issues that have been listed, which I have been fortunately been spared. It has a two and half star rating for a reason. |
Fun game but functionality sucks
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| Review Date: February 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Brent, Mesa AZ, USA |
This game is a lot of fun. However, there are two major problems:
1. DRM- I'm not a fan of this. I paid for the game, I should own the game. Stop treating paying customers like they're stealing.
2. There is no auto save function. I hate it when I've been playing for an hour and the game crashes. There went an hour of work.
If EA would fix these issues I'd give it a 5 star rating. Till then One star it is. As much fun as it is to play, I wouldn't buy this again or I would return it if I could. |
Don't buy this, securerom crippled my pc
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| Review Date: February 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Richard Paraizs, Dierdorf im Westerwald |
The game is ok. But Nero and AnyDvD don't work any more. Obviously they've been blacklisted. Also I noticed a slight drop in my system's speed since I installed Spore. And I had to switch from AVG to Antivira because AVG detected a virus after I installed spore.
Nice work EA! |
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