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Smile Store - 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: Maxis fails to deliver
Comment: The biggest problem with this game is how limited it is compared to what it could be and what I think we were led to believe it would be.
Think about how varied animals are in real life, how many different environments they are adapted to live in, how different they are, their size, their biology, their behaviour, their diet, etc.
Now look at Spore. There is precisely one environment your creature can live in at a given stage, and that's the water in cell stage and the temperate land every other stage. There are precisely 3 diets - any vegetation, any meat or both. Customisation is limited to selecting body parts that will allow a few different attack moves, a few different socialisation moves and a few abilities which don't really matter very much. You can create an animal without arms or legs but the fact the game only provides a single environment which isn't well suited to it and the game also seems to have its idea of what the "correct" path for evolution is it's pretty pointless to do so.
Where are the animals which live in the sea, where are the animals that live underground and in caves, where are the birds (you can glide a short distance, but you're still essentially a land animal), where are the parasites, where is the VARIATION? Creatures can be made to look different but they are basically all the same with a few inconsequential differences.
The second main problem I have is there's really no evolution by natural selection at all in this game sadly. What features a creature has is not affected in any way by what came before, you can completely remove all features and completely reshape your creature in one fell swoop. The one tiny nod to evolution is the way your creature has behaved at a stage can give it one of three sets of abilities when it moves onto the next stage, but this has nothing to do with its physical characteristics. It's a shame really since this could have educated children somewhat on how evolution works and in this incarnation it does the exact opposite.
I would have given the game 3 stars for sort of having an interesting idea but failing to implement it in any meaningful way, but I'm going to give it one star for the DRM which has been mentioned in all the other reviews.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks for the DRM warnings
Comment: I came to purchase Spore today, but thanks to the DRM warnings I decided to pre-order The Force Unleashed instead. I still haven't purchased Bioshock or Mass Effect for the same reasons. It is a shame as all three of these games look great, but I just don't want the hassle.
I purchased HoMM V a while back which has something similar (spyware) and that's been just a pain. (p.s. I've owned & enjoyed all the Maxis games from way back - including RoboSport! What a darn shame I'm going to miss this one).
Rating: 3/5 - just from videos and reading other reviews about the game.
Overall: 1/5 - due to EA's choice of using DRM.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I was so excited to get Spore.....
Comment: ....until I found out from everyone that it has DRM. Why!? What if I want to share this game with my wife and have it installed on more than one of my computers. Not to mention the fact that I plan on upgrading computers soon and one or more of my DRM usages would have already been previously used. I will NOT purchase this game until DRM is removed. I don't see how this prevents piracy. This just makes me want to pirate it more when I was already planning on buying it legally.
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Summary: drm makes me a sad panda
Comment: probably one of the most innovative and well-executed games released in the last 20 years, but the ridiculous DRM means that you are either stuck off-line and lose out on the revolutionary MSO (massively single-player online) experience, or you rent 3 uses for $50 USD.
will wright is an undeniable genius and its sad that the evil empire known as EA is prevent his incredible achievement from having higher market penetration.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Game is OK, DRM restrictions make it a loser.
Comment: This is a very fun and creative game that will suck it for hours at a time. However, the DRM restrictions it puts on the user are harsh and useless, (the game is already available on most bit torrent clients).
So I basically put down my hard-earned money and get punished for buying the game legally. The gaming industry needs to be sent a message that this is no way to treat their customers.
I've already returned the game and gotten something else.
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