Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-09-05
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista

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From the creator of The Sims comes the most ambitious video game ever made: here you don’t just control a single family or city but control an entire species from a single cell organism to a galactic conqueror. As impossibly complex as that might sound, the most impressive thing about Spore is just how accessible and fun it all is. The game is split into six evolutionary phases, starting with almost action-style gameplay at the microscopic level. From there you move to the creature phase on dry land, before going on to the tribal phase and the beginnings of society and technology. From there it’s onto the city phase, which plays a bit like SimCity, and from there to the Civilisation phase which plays something like, you guessed it, Civilization. The final phase takes part in outer space where by hook or by crock your species must reign triumphant.

Each phase has its own editing tools associated with it for things like vehicles and buildings. By far the most fun though is the creature tool, which allows you to create your own fully animated lifeform from scratch using a huge range of limbs, facial features and colourings. What’s also interesting is that the other planets in the galaxy aren’t all pre-populated by the game. Instead, by connecting online you can upload your races, and download those from other people, to fill the galaxy with civilizations from other players around the world. Any one of the six phases would normally be enough for any one game on its own, but this looks like it’s going to turn out to be the world’s first everything simulator.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
The next evolution in gaming is upon us. From the mind of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes SPORE, an epic journey that takes you from the origin and evolution of life through the development of civilization and technology and eventually all the way into the deepest reaches of outer space.

Begin your odyssey at the dawn of life as a simple microbe just trying to survive, then use the fun, intuitive Editors to evolve the creature from its microscopic origins into an intelligent, tool-using race. Guide your species as it builds (and the player designs) villages, buildings, cities, and vehicles. Along the way to becoming a global civilization you can choose whether to hunt or forage, attack or trade, be nice or play rough!

All the action takes place in a huge, lush world populated with creatures evolved by other players and shared over SPORE's central servers. When it's ready, your one-time pond scum launches into space in its UFO on a grand voyage of discovery, planet forming, or destruct-ion! As you explore and play in this limitless universe of unique worlds, your personal Sporepedia tracks all the creatures you've met and places you've visited.

Customer Reviews

Great game
This game is great and the space stage is amazing there is over 50,000 planets. So I don't know how people can say that they should have spent more time making the game. They spent 10 years making it!!!!!!!!

My son loves Spore
We really don't care about the DRM and the endless debate about it. My 11 year old son loves Spore. He's really enjoyed every bit of it, and he's now looking forward to getting some of the parts packs for Xmas. He loves all of the ways you can create in this game and the different avenues you can take with it. Fun!

Why is everyone putting this game down
I have only been playing this game a short while and i am already captivated, the bacteria stage is fun and allows you to grab the basics of the game (e.g. add the right mouth for what you eat)and settle into it. After this stage though comes the fun part the Creature Stage here you can design your creature in what ever way you want you can make anything from a shapless blob to a dragon !!! I can only assume the people who gave this game a bad review either were expecting another age of empires or have no imagination but so far its a thumbs up from me :)