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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $36.01
You Save: $13.98 (28%)
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Rating:  3140 reviews
Sales Rank: 25
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
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...
 cumbersome drm October 10, 2008
juventino 417 (Cali, Baby)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The DRM on this game is overly cumbersome, preventing you from being able to personally play without extra hassle a game you paid good money for....
Crashenator October 10, 2008
A. R. Jackman (Salt Lake City, UT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game, even after the patches which came out right after its release, crashes at every opportunity. It is not a reliable game. It is not fun to play because when progress is achieved, it crashes (somehow it knows exactly when you plan to save and intervenes). Of course, it doesn't help that I can't play the game behind a firewall due to the connectivity required for DRM. The game has no additional value when connected to the internet, anyway.
Just stopped working; support useless. October 9, 2008
Nic3k (Silver Spring, MD United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tried on Mac OS X. It worked for a while, then just stopped: try to launch it and you get a zoom box, then nothing. I did discover it would still run if I logged in as root (no way do I intend to run a game as root!).
I wrote to EA support, and they suggested I "upgrade" to a machine that fits their requirements. Well, you can't get much faster than the Mac Pro I was already using. And the support tech clearly had not read my email, since if Spore runs successfully as root, and used to run fine not as root, then the machine is adequate.
I won't bore you with the list of other support problems. I can't recommend this until they get their support act together.
 One of the best games I've ever played. October 9, 2008
Deborah C. Owen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is lots of fun with easy to moderate-complex controls. In the space stage though, it takes a while for things to load. Like, you might fly to a planet and not see the cities for another five minutes. Near the end of the game it gets very challenging. it is addicting and fun. Most people say the game is bad because the technology is supposed to be "amazing". It is. You just have to think about if your other computer game has one million different planets to explore. (This is true!)Also, do your other computer games allow you to make a creature from scratch and then allow you to use it anywhere as if it was a real thing? I DO NOT recommend this game to people that like shooting games. This is NOT a shooting game. This is for "science geeks" and "math geeks". To appreciate this game, you need to realize the time and technology that went into this. It was delayed from stores at least three times. Although there are a few glitches, it's WAY good enough for me.
 Wonderful Game, but not re-playable October 9, 2008
Natalie K. Kinard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is great- it's everything I hoped for, and the expansion of the creative abilities was a seriously added bonus. There's one problem...
after youve guided a couple of civilizations to the final space age... youre done. There's not anything new and different. Yes, you could create a new carnivorous, mean species if you always play diplomats, but that'd be really hard, as they way you play the game reflects how you live life.
So, glad i bought it, was fun to play, but i am now stuck thinking 'now what?'
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