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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $47.49
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Rating:  281 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
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 (New: This Week)
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 276 more reviews...
 DRM - I want to buy software September 8, 2008
Joseph Meyer
The game is amazing. Too bad I won't be buying it because they don't want
to sell it to me. They want me to give them money to treat me like I am
a criminal. No thanks
No way in hell September 8, 2008
James Garcia (Highland, IN)
This is a perfect example of how to ruin a great game. There is no chance that I will purchase this game now.
Listen up EA September 8, 2008
BG Farmer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nothing to add to what's been said before, potentially great game ruined by over the top DRM that realistically prevent you from 'owning' a game you've paid money for.
Congratulations EA on doing the opposite of what you intended and driving potential customers into the waiting arms of pirates. Listen up and make the changes.
Game Fun, DRM BAAAD September 8, 2008
D. Heroux (Washington State, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must have been living under a rock, as I had not heard word of the DRM issues before purchasing this game. And I was shocked, and am not surprised at all about the backlash here and other places regarding the crazy DRM scheme.
I am all for protecting content but not at the expense of the paying customers like this. I like many here tend to format and re-install everything at least once a year to keep my computer fast and fresh. Now I have to think about Spore when I do that. Thanks but no thanks EA if I could return the game I would.
The game it self is fun, top notch game and if not for the DRM would totally be a 5+ star. But like all the others the DRM is too much for this customer.
A $50 rental September 8, 2008
Brandon! (Sacramento, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The DRM in Spore, like Mass Effect, kills any chance of this game getting installed on my system (at least, the retail copy of this game).
I still have my original CD of Quake, and when I'm in the mood, I can install it and play, even 12 years later, without id's "permission." If you think this CD of Spore will be playable in 12 years, you're wrong. It's unlikely the authentication servers at EA will still be active in 2020 -- but don't worry, EA will happily offer to sell you a digital copy of the game for only 19.99.
What this amounts to is a $50 rental of the game now, because when your activations are expired, you won't get to play it anymore, and you'll be forced to buy another copy. Let's face it, EA says they'll grant additional activations, but what reason do they have to do this? By not providing an additional license, EA financially benefits by selling you a second copy of the game.
There's no need for this DRM to be part of the game. The pirates will always pirate the goods (they've had a cracked version of the game on the torrent sites a week before the game was released) and the non-pirates will always make a legal purchase. By infesting a game with DRM, EA has done nothing but lose a lot of money. Idiots.
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