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| Spore | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $42.99
You Save: $7.00 (14%)
New (15) Used (6) from $36.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  3151 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Ridiculous to get installed October 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
2 and half hours in and it's still not installed... It just stopped and crashed several times and when I finally got the game going it prompted me to download a patch which proceeded to cause a crash and erased the game by corrupting the files since... Now trying to install again.
Ridiculous. Don't buy unless you want headaches. I should have listened to the other reviews.
Cant play the game October 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Military be forewarned, if you do not have the internet access to your personal computer, do not buy this game. I read the system requirements and never did they say that you have to have internet service to verify ownership of the game before you can even play the game. As of right now, i have a $40 game, or at least a short cut to a game, that is just sitting on my computer that i cannot play. The gameplay of spore i cant comment on b/c as above, i have yet to been able to even start the game at all.
So close but so far October 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although the game itself has amazing and innovative play. DRM makes the game difficult to manuever around and almost not worth playing. Its a shame EA took a potentially revolutionary game and ruined it with a rediculously overzealous DRM.
If anyone from EA happens to read this. Why would you risk new DRM protection on one of your most promising titles. You took something that could have completely solidified your name in the gaming market and ruined it. EA was already known for its B grade sports games now it can boast an F grade rts.
Ditch DRM and fire the morons who came up with it.
Maxis must have paid NASA a ton of money to advertise this worthless game October 12, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Two years ago, when I looked at this game, I thought it would be a decent, fun game, and it would be worth paying 50 dollars for. Unfortunately, it isn't decent, it isn't fun, and it's really not even paying 10 bucks for. That's how bad it is. To sum up what this game is, it's just a bunch of depthless minigames that take about thirty minutes each to beat, until, that is, you get to the space stage. The first phase, cell phase, is the only semi-fun one; of course, it's probably the most dumbed down of all phases. This phase only takes a few minutes to beat. The creature phase can take a long time depending on whether you befriend or attack everything. This phase is aggravating and boring.
The tribal phase is so easy that it can only take you around 20 minutes to beat. In this phase, you're pretty much forced to ally with the other tribes, as using warfare takes forever and gets you nowhere. Once you get past the tribal phase, it's time for the civilization phase, which is more or less the same as the tribal phase, only it's a lot easier to kill everyone. In this phase, your people develope so quickly it's unrealistic; they get vehicles right after the tribal phase, and soon after develope ships and warplanes. Ultimately, this phase is the second most frustrating.
The space phase is the last and worst phase. If you don't ally with at least one major empire, you're screwed, for lack of a better word. Of course, you're forced to go stop ecodisasters and stop pirates, and for whatever reason, they can't do it themselves. The best items cost a ridiculous amount of sporebucks(the currency in spore), and it can take hours to get enough money just to get the planet buster, and you can only use it once before you buy another one.
After a while, you'll get used to killing pirates and stopping ecodisasters and defeating the Grox(the cheesy, borg-like rat-villains of the game). Your main goal, later on, is to get to the center of the universe. You'll find that most of the races in the universe sound the same, and that some even look the same; that being said, it makes it feel like there's no variety in races, which, there isn't much of. It's almost painful to reach the center of the universe. You have to not only defeat the Grox, but you have to beat the other hostile empires. This took me around 4 days for me to do, and that was to only get near the center of the universe. That's 4 days wasted.
To sum it all up, this game is a dumbed-down, boring piece of trash that was so overhyped that, in order to avoid a tide of hate mail, places like Gamespot gave it a positive review to save their butts.
I beg fellow gamers to either not buy this game, or pirate it. The game is not worth 50, or even 10 dollars, and the fact that there's a draconian DRM attached makes it even worse; you can only install the game 3 times on a computer. That means that if your computer loses all of its data 3 times, or you want to install it on 3 computers, you'll have to call EA customer support in order to get an extra install. EA games treats its customers like criminals. They've tightened their grip so much that this game is becoming the most pirated game of all time. I'd bet if NASA knew that this game would be THIS bad, they wouldn't shown it.
I say it again: Do not buy this game. Don't waste your time, money, or sanity trying to play or buy this game, and if you absolutely must have it, then pirate it. They thoroughly deserve it. It's pretty much a bunch of stupid minigames with a draconian DRM attached.
 Not bad, but not as great as expected October 12, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Will Wright's new creation has all the makings of one of his signature top tier games. However, it suffers from the same type of replay value hangups the Sims franchise suffered from, only earlier. There is plenty of play value to be had, there is excellent humor, the graphics and procedural movements of the creatures you can create are stellar and, as always, there are fun disasters to deal with during each playthrough. If you are a fan of the Sims franchise and the premise of creating your very own race of aliens from amoeba to space-faring culture appeals to you, it is definitely worth the purchase.
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