| Spore | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (73 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
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 68 more reviews...
 Only 1 login per purchase. No hope for families... September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife and I bought 2 copies of Spore for our computers. We have 2 kids and planned on letting one play on her computer with her copy and the other playing on my computer with my copy. However the game only allows for 1 login per install. So if I let one of my kids play on my copy they use the same universe and can basically destroy anything I've setup. There appears to be no way to allow a second login to work (which is contrary to other EA games like Sims 2).
We're trying to figure out the best way to do this and will probably give our kids other planets to stay on or something. But this issue has definitely limited our experience. My guess is that this is part of the whole overly protective attitude they've seem to have taken which is why I'm rating this 1 star.
I could care less about DRM and understand the need for it. But at least allow multiple users to play with different logins on the same machine without risking other player's content. That type of feature has been around for nearly a decade now. It just doesn't make sense that EA did this. Somebody there just isn't thinking about the customer scenarios. If they fix this to allow multiple logins (even at a small sum) I'll probably up the rating.
A single user won't feel this pain but any family/couple is going to find that this sucks. I now have to be home here to login with my EA account so my kid can play instead of just providing him with his own account.
DRM is a Step Back, Show EA We Won't Have Any of it! September 8, 2008
DRM is strangling PC gaming. DRM is punishing the legitimate customers who bought the game.
Until the video game industry wakes up and smells the burnt discs, they will never figure out why piracy is on the rise, and regular people are reluctant to buy their games. I refuse to purchase any game that acts like I just rented it. I refuse to buy any game that limits the number of times I can install it. I uninstall and reinstall games quite often to save on hard drive space. I won't buy a game that will stop working for me one day just because I installed it too much.
It's too bad to. I was looking forward to Spore, it looks like a fun game. But EA's draconian methods to control something I've already bought are a deal breaker for me. I hope this game tanks EA. I hope you learn your lesson.
I'm dissapointed... September 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I saw this pop up on pirate websites the other day I thought to myself, no! I will not download such an amazing game. Piracy is killing the industry and I don't want to support something that might hurt the creation of other great games in the future.
But then I came to amazon and hear that they've applied this ridiculous DRM. After dealing with the headache that was mass effect I will not be tricked into buying such a piece of trash again.
Over-simplified gameplay and the horrible DRM September 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The game is oversimplified. Period. Basically, you either press GREEN BUTTON to make friends with animals/countries/empires or you press the RED BUTTON to kill, kill, kill. Then you have the creature/ship/tank/spaceship creator, the only thing great about the game.
Then you have the DRM. This program basically sends information to EA headquarters without your permission. It's hard to get rid of, and slows down your computer. Also, you can only install the game three times. Three times? I ****ing bought the game. I have every right to install the game any time I want. It's ridiculous that I have to call the EA help center for this.
Honestly, this game gets a 1 from me
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don't buy until EA fixes drm issues September 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought it for home and wanted to have two accounts on two different machines, or even two accounts on the same machine, but EA doesn't allow it. So, if more than one person wants to have an account, you need to buy two copies of the game which is RIDICULOUS. Not as advertised.
Will Wright, you really need to get a new publisher or get EA to fix this.
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