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
Customer Rating: 
Summary: I came to Amazon to buy Spore then learned about that DRM thing
Comment: Spore is the first video I have ever been interested in buying. I read the reviews on that DRM thing and did some research. I have decided not to buy the game at this time.
Customer Rating: Summary: Need to finish the game!
Comment: It's like thay where on to something then someone told them to wrap it up realy fast and sell it the entire *game* (if it darded to be called so) Is nothing more then cariter creation. Thay got to the part when thay where ment to do something with what you made then just gave up. It realy could have bin a masterfull game IF thay had made it so you could do something intresting when you where done creating you're alien.
:P I give it a 12% outa 100. Great base but nothing els realy.
Customer Rating: Summary: I'm not necessairly mad I bought this game, but it definitely didn't live up to the hype....
Comment: PROs:
- Interesting, unique, creative gaming concept
- Good graphics
- Was fun to play here and there for a few weeks
CONs:
- DRM and all the baggage that comes along with it
- I did experience run-time crashes although they were infrequent. Save often.
- I'm personally not a huge fan of "sandbox" games. Interesting idea but that's about it.
- The majority of the game takes place in space. It was fun to explore and complete tasks for a while, but after a relatively short period of time the game-play becomes rather mundane.
- I don't think this is the kind of game that players are going to be too interested in for more than a short period of time.
All things considered I don't necessarily regret having bought this game, however it certainly didn't come anywhere close to living up to the hype. This was supposed to be a seminal game that would change gaming as we know it.... I just don't see that happening.
Customer Rating: Summary: A Total Waste of Money
Comment: I facilitated this purchase for my son. He spent his summer wages on a new iMac and this was a rare case where he spent retail with his own money for the game based on the hype. He got a few days play out of it before he tried the upgrade. Now the game is toast. Worse, the news hit that this software installs a rootkit, subverting the host operating system in the fashion of the Sony root kit that infected over 6 million systems in America alone and provided common back doors for easy access to customer systems for Internet criminals. That led to an EFF-driven class action settlement that was, itself, and exercise in cheap lawyerly cynicism, providing Sony with a fig leaf of propriety for a fraction of the real liability.
Now Spore won't play and the system has to be reinstalled to clear these bastards' root kit. A harsh lesson in corporate malfeasance courtesy of Electronics Arts, a brand that will never enter my home again.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good intention but poor execution
Comment: This is an innovative idea that just wasn't finished. To me it seems like they are planning to release this game as a skeleton to flesh out in future releases, but who wants to buy an incomplete game. The space stage is fun, and seems to be where they spent most of their time, but the other stages are short and relatively pointless. My guess is they will release expansions for us to buy to flesh out those other areas.
If you are a designer and have good imagination, you will love this game, otherwise, play at a friends house.
The game is also filled with bugs. Installations, DRM, random crashes, Spore has them all. If this were released on a console it would have been laughed out of the market, but since its PC they seem to think its ok to release a game that is 80% or less. Look up spore bugs and you will see what I'm talking about.
If you are planning on buying this game, wait a few months, till they come out with some updates to make the game actually function.
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