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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Spore
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $49.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633153521
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Feature: Epic journey from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and outer space exploration
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 15352
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2008-09-07
Studio: Electronic Arts
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Features
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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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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A review for someone that has ACTUALLY played the game THOUROUGLY!!
Comment: Well, I figured this game could use a review from someone who has actually played quite a bit through it. Unlike all the other reviews on here from people who have either A, not played it, B, are complaining about SecuRom, or C, have only played it for 5 minutes and then prepared their review. Anyway, the game itself is actually quite fun. You start off in the ocean with whichever little critter you make and swim around and eat smaller fish. Pretty simple, and I'm sure you've all played a game like that before. Anyway, you get bigger, and eat bigger fish, get some new "parts" you can add to the species you're creating, and voila. After the cell stage you move on to the next stage. Depending on what decisions you made in the cell stage you might be classified as a carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore. Anyway, now you're going to get to add some new things to your species. Add a couple legs, arms, bigger mouth, etc. And remove things you no longer need since you're out of the water. Now you go around and you can either befriend other species or kill them off, your choice. I chose to kill most of them off, though I tried to befriend them first. Some are very easy to befriend, some not so much. One of the things I kept getting is species that wanted me to "pose" for them, but I hadn't found the right "parts" around the planet yet to give me that ability. In fact, didn't find them until right after that stage. This is really an easy stage once you get going. You'll hibernate a couple times to new nests and find some more species to either befriend or make extinct. Most of the new "parts" you get for your species are by going around the planet and finding bones. Very easy and some are clumped like 5-6 in one area. Makes for alot of add-ons for your species. After you finish this stage you'll move on to the tribal stage. This stage is kind of like command and conquer style for those of you that have played it. You're going to be controlling your species from a birds-eye view (default view, you can move the camera though) and interact with other tribes. Your species now have the ability to make fire, build huts, collect food to keep at the camp, etc, however it's pretty much the same basis as the Creature Stage. Just go around and either kill off other tribes or befriend them. The way you played the previous stage also has an affect on this one. It'll classify you as an aggressive species, friendly species, or adaptable species. Aggressive of course being one that likes to kill species off, and friendly one that likes to befriend, with adaptable being in the middle. You will start off with 3 creatures from your species in your camp, one being the chief, and two being workers/fighters, whatever that may be. You can then add members by creating babies, though you can only have a maximum of 6 tribe members until you kill off other tribes to increase your amount. I haven't finished this stage yet, but it's pretty good. Believe there are two more stages after this, and I'll try and edit my review when I find out. I myself don't really think this game has to much replayability. Sure you can create new creatures and all, but the only difference will really be changing to a herbivore or something. It would be stupid not to say that every time you make a new creature you are going to give it the same parts as your previous as you'll want the best stats. Though you can form it in different ways it will always kind of look alike. Another thing I dislike is the fact you can change your character so much. They don't limit the customization at all. I'm not talking about the first time, but once you've looked like, let's say a dinosaur, the next time you're in edit mode you can make some kind of 10 legged species with 15 eyes, wings, completely change the color, take away the tail, and though, if that's what the player wants to do, I guess that's fine, but it's just weird. My species actually went from looking like a horse to looking like a T-Rex, of course I guess that was my own fault, but still. Anyway, still a pretty decent game, though I might be biased as I had no idea this game was in the works for the last 10 years or whatever. I just heard about it like two or three weeks ago I think when they released Spore Origin's on iTunes and I wanted to check it out, so I wasn't expecting a genre-changing game like most people. Now, about Securom...it really sucks, yeah, but I guess we have to live with it, or just stay away until they are forced to change it. I actually install any securom games on my computer that isn't connected to internet and if I have to connect it for activation I do, and then disconnect it again. Still a pretty good computer and I don't use it for anything else because I have this computer. I myself got the game for about $38 because my friend got it for 25% where he works so that's probably another reason I gave it a try. It's not the greatest game ever made, but it's not that bad either. For all the hype I've heard, and read, that this game has had I would be pretty mad to if this was what I ended up getting, but as I said, I had no expectations so it was fine with me. I know my opinion would be different if I had been waiting 10 years for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DRM? No thanks.
Comment: I'm sure this game is a lot of fun. I've been looking forward to it for quite some time now. However, I'm not a big fan of having a DRM rootkit on my PC forcibly installed and sucking up my resources, and so I decided to pass on it.
There's also the issue that I'd like to play it on a PC that doesn't have an active internet connection, and again, thanks to the DRM, this is not possible.
Don't pay this insane price to RENT this game. You guys took a potentially excellent game and took a big old dump on it.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU DON'T WANT A DRM ROOTKIT FORCIBLY INSTALLED ON YOUR PC THAT YOU CANNOT EASILY REMOVE. IT WILL BE SITTING IN THE BACKGROUND CONSTANTLY SUCKING UP YOUR RESOURCES AND COMMUNICATING WITH EA'S SERVER.
Absolute GARBAGE.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Being Returned Without Even Opening
Comment: I am sick and tired of companies hijacking my computer, my operating system, and my time with DRM software like SecuROM. I am so fed up that I will be returning the pre-ordered collectors edition that is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning. I was very much anticipating spending some real quality time with this game, however I will not put up SecuROM or any other method of copy protection that puts these sorts of draconian limits on what I can and can not do with software that I've purchased.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun but no multi-login!
Comment: With 1 computer we were planning on playing Spore with our seperate logons the same way we play other games. But that's a big no go! EA has seen fit to not allow multiple logons ON THE SAME COMPUTER!! So we have to settle for limiting ourselves with sharing the universe. This would be OK if it were just the 2 of us but I'd like to let my son play too. But with 3 of us we're limited to 2 planets per and will end up unlocking things that the other 2 haven't earned yet etc...
This user limitation is just dumb. Does EA expect families to have 1 computer per family member?!? I'd love that but can't afford it.
I will be attempting to return the game. Maybe later on we can buy it again when EA fixes this issue.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DRM is a deal-breaker.
Comment: I was planning on purchasing this game, but after reading the reviews and learning about the DRM issues, I decided to look for something else that won't put uninstallable spyware on my computer. In fact, I have been planning on replacing my computer within the next 6 months, and having to use up 2 out of 3 installs already just makes me question what the point of having this registration system is. I sincerely hope that EA will remove the DRM software from this product, but until that happens I highly doubt I will play this game.
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