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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $47.49
You Save: $2.50 (5%)
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Rating:  123 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 5 more reviews...
 Hardcore gamers need not apply September 8, 2008
A. Fuller
This game is nothing short of revolutionary in ways I can't even express. There are literally hundreds of hours of gameplay and the replay value is infinite. However, hardcore gamers will not be impressed. It is more like a toy than a game -- there is little to no penalties for dying, for example. If that describes you, go back to playing your FPS or favorite MMORPG. This is not for you. But for the rest of us -- well-worth your time.
 Don't treat your customers like you don't want them anywhere near your product. September 8, 2008
Bryan Jebavy (Virginia Beach, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The DRM system being used in this game is an utter deal breaker and ruins an otherwise solid title by abusing the good faith relationship between a paying customer and publisher.
Don't buy this game September 8, 2008
Kristjan B. Gu mundsson (Iceland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was interested in this game but since it has DRM I will not buy this game ever, and I recommend others not do buy it.
Yet another DRM complaint September 8, 2008
LF8.org
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Installed, prompted by SecuROM, returned to store.
Thanks, but no thanks. Ironically, the pirated version will probably strip such nonsense out, meaning that they effectively lost a sale, and drove people to piracy. Outstanding.
The copy protection PREVENTS YOU FROM TAKING YOUR SAVED GAMES (your "profile") AND PLAYING ON A FRIEND'S PC! September 8, 2008
Loraksus (Portland, Oregon)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The copy protection PREVENTS YOU FROM TAKING YOUR SAVED GAMES (your "profile") AND PLAYING ON A FRIEND'S PC!
The system requirements, or indeed, no advertising materials whatsoever make no mention of SecureROM. There is also no mention that EA lets you only "activate" the game 3 times.
What this means that when you install the game, you must activate it before playing. This leaves you with 2 activations left.
The problem with this is that the game can go into "activation required" mode for a number of reasons, one of them being adding hardware.
EA has never mentioned what kind of hardware, so it could require activation every time you add a printer, a scanner, even a BluRay drive. If you upgrade to Vista (or switch back to XP), that will require another activation.
If you have to take your computer in for service and they have to reload it, that will also count as one of the activations. Everyone knows how bad spyware and viruses can be, and because of this DRM, you face the prospect of having to rebuy Spore in addition to the cost of getting your computer reinstalled.
If you beg EA and fax in your proof of purchase, they MAY grant you one additional activation for a total of 4. After that YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME ANYMORE. You agree to all this in the terms and conditions during the installation process.
Once your 3 (maybe 4) activations are all up - you will own a $45 piece of plastic that is completely and utterly worthless.
Even if you're ok with all that - part of the copy protection PREVENTS YOU FROM TAKING YOUR SAVED GAMES (your "profile") AND PLAYING ON A FRIEND'S PC (who "activated" with another key). This is just plain stupid.
As for SecureROM? It is bad software and has affected many people's computers in the past in very negative ways (crash when trying to burn cds, etc). There are literally thousands of people complaining about SecureRom on the internet. There is also an almost complete lack of anything positive about SecureROM. Don't take my word for it - go run a few searches.
I've had problems with SecureROM in the past (a game would refuse to run if the CD drive was connected via USB). I emailed both the Vendor and SecureROM - each company will tell you to talk to the other and you will get NO SUPPORT for any issues. In the end, I figured out it didn't like USB CD drives.
Because of SecureROM, I was not able to play the game on my subnotebook (no built in drive). I had to mail the game into the vendor for a refund because the store wouldn't take it back. It took them 3 months to send me a refund.
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