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| Spore | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $34.97
You Save: $15.02 (30%)
New (41) Used (18) from $28.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  3142 reviews
Sales Rank: 98
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Macintosh
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
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:
 Below Average Game Crippled with SecuROM November 17, 2008
First, the game's concept is awesome.
Second, the implementation is crap. For example, you would think that if you wanted to create a warlike creature, you would gain some benefit by placing weapons and spikes all over the creature. However, this is not the case. It doesn't matter if you give him a dozen spikes, he will do the same damage as a pacificist blob with no spikes. Where is the role playing experience here? The only thing your design changes is the way the creature looks, not his stats or abilities... thus its a dumbed down evolution sim. Imagine Darwin's surprise when the monster shark that evolved huge jaws and teeth was killed by a pacifist sloth...
Finally, this is an EA title, thus it installs SecuROM, which is a hidden rootkit which you are unable to uninstall and causes random crashes, privacy concerns, etc. For the life of me I cannot figure out why publishers pay SecuROM for this disservice. The game gets cracked and released on the internet anyway, so all it does is piss of paying customers.
 I actually bought this :( November 17, 2008
I was really looking forward to this game - first one I've bought in years. Incredibly cute and pretty - but I think it could probably do with it's own special rating - "not suitable for ages over 10". Once you've been through the stages up to space you'll never do them again - and OMG - it is just so mind numbingly boring. I've had about 12 hours play for my money before I gave up - if you have to buy this see if a friend's got it first and check it out - forget the youtube cutesy videos. I feel like I've been conned :(
To give it some merit it is a nice "toy" for kids to show off their design skills.
DRM Fascists November 17, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is also bundled with a Fascist DRM. Giving further support to this game goes against what the Internet believes and was made for. Also, this game is for kids!
 This Game is fun! November 16, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is awesome. I love the flexibility of the create a creature mode and its fun to go around killing creatures and taking over the universe! Its a great game especially if you're into biology and the theory of molecular evolution like I am. This game allows you to use a wide range of imagination! I love that!
Not much fun November 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Everyone has raised such a stink about the copy protection that I don't know how many people have noticed that this game just isn't that much fun.
I was excited about the "evolution" aspect of the game, but the evolution phases of the game aren't so much like evolution as they are like customizing a car. You earn money (DNA points) and you can buy or trade in body parts without any restrictions based on what the last incarnation of your creature was like. In real evolution, existing parts can change to take on new functions but in the game you can just trade in an arm and grow two more eyes somewhere else.
The only respect in which your choices have any long term impact is at the end of each stage of the game. For each stage, a tally is made of how much meat you ate vs how many plants, or how many species you killed off vs how many you befriended, to determine your "type"...carnivore or herbivore, predatory or social, etc. Each label that you get tagged with determined your special abilities later in the game.
The first two stages (with physical "evolution") are the only novel parts of the game. The later stages are highly simplified versions of other well known strategy games.
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