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Spore | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy Used: $14.99
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Rating:  3305 reviews
Sales Rank: 453
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 15352
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
From the creators of The Sims comes Spore, where you evolve a single-celled organism into a galactic god whose personality and abilities are completely up to you. Then interact with other players' creatures-including ones made by celebrities! EA Games. PC/MAC, NDS.
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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| Customer Reviews:
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 Completely dumbed down and cartoony July 27, 2010
AHelioD
Far far far from the original concept and vision of the game. Completely dumbed down and linear, creature creator is only good for asthetics and doesnt effect anything else other then body part attributes (shape doesnt matter).
BAD!
BSODs Galore July 20, 2010
V. Daniel Ziemecki (Atlanta GA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife and son bought this against my recommendation. Game play aside, I knew from the reviews that it would be a challenge just to make this thing run. And I will be having my "I-Told-You-So" moments, shortly.
I've spent hours trying to make thing thing work for my disappointed kid. I got past the first hurdle when I discovered that there was a conflict with the way the game phoned home, and the way K-9 allowed access to the internet for minors. After disabling K-9 just to get the game activated, it seemed to run pretty well. For a day.
The next day, it Blue Screened every time we launched it. I tried updating the video driver, playing with compatibility modes, and launching as an administrator. We tried installing the 1.05 patch (which, humorously, wanted you to be running first to download it). Nothing worked.
This is not some exotic system we're using. Windows 7 with an Intel chip and an nVidia graphics card. If it can't run on this, I can't imagine what it was designed for.
I'm sure there is some collection of drivers and patches that'll make this work. If not, there wouldn't be some many reviews about the unimaginative game-play. But I've gone past the amount of effort I'm going to put into a game. And the rest of my family has learned a lot about buying DRM riddled garbage from EA.
 AWESOME!!! July 10, 2010
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Spore is a five star game. You get to create your own creature- from a one-cell organism to creatures like us. It's the best ever!!!
Anonymous, age 9
Tis A Shame June 29, 2010
default_gamer
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Remember when you could just buy PC games, install them on your computers, and just be happy with them? Well, sorry! Big gaming industries instead decided to make it utter hell to try to install and play a game that you legitimately bought. 10 years of game development went straight down the toilet for EA. Which is really sad, because I wanted to play this. I never did get it because of all these horror stories, yet I gave it 4 stars for fun because, from the gaming videos I've seen, it looks like the kind of thing you'd play every once in a while. I was distraught by the security garbage that was incorporated into playing Empire: Total War, so I think I can have some empathy in losing $50. I'm not surprised by how far down the price for Spore has gone. Even in Best Buy, it's maybe 1/3 of the price it once was. EA has mentioned that they will remove much of the security issues, but it probably won't be enough. Will the PC gaming industry crumble from pirating? I'm not sure if that's true because I don't know the environment of developers vs. pirates and how catastrophic it can be. I do know that new PC games incorporating a sickeningly heavy amount of restrictions on installation and whatnot and infiltrating one's system with checks to see if they're a pirate makes pirates look like heroes. Perhaps the game will soon be released free of all locks and chains. Maybe not. I just hope that PC game developers look at why customers rage against the games: drm and tight security.
 Pretty Pictures June 22, 2010
Benjamin P. W. Hamilton (Portland, Oregon)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The registar code key didn't work, as in invalid or already used so couldn't use the online feature. Sucks. Games okay, pretty, but not what you'd call a real challenge of any sort. This is a game for kids, like maybe 10 or so... my 15 year old was bored after playing it twice. Pretty, some good ideas, but it's setting gathering dust on our shelf after just a week....
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