Amazon.com 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 CREATOR
Finally 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 ONLINE
While 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 Requirements
This 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
Crashed my systemOctober 27, 2008 S. Mitchell(Ontario Canada) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This peace of sh** crashed my system, and get this, the only way I could get it to work was a full re-install of windows and than installing the cracked version I downloaded (I read on a forum that it would work). this thing is nothing but a $50 peace of worthless sh** that isn't even worth the disk it is pressed on.
STAY AWAY.
EA... You better not put this DRM sh** on Sims 3 or i will not bother buying it I will just skip right to my other solution and download it. You guys F'd up big time.
I have all my Sims stuff registered and will be emailing my complaint. I have been a big fan of Will Wright's games for a long time but NOW I AM F***ING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAY TO SLAP LEGITIMATE PURCHASERS OF YOUR PRODUCT. THANKS FOR THE HEADACHE.
I will not buy any more EA gamesOctober 23, 2008 M. Strong 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The DRM software that gets secretly installed on your computer and has complete access to ALL you computer's systems including the internet is going too far. I do have any priated games, I have bought all my games.(All of the Sims 2). But as a comsumer this is too much. I will boycott EA until they change the DRM they use.
Spore - No thank youOctober 15, 2008 B. Charbonneau 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Spore is a shadow of what it could be. The game play has been dumbed down and it is now boring and retitive. The only fun part is the creature creation but the design of a creature does not seems to really impact it's success or failure. Add to this a DRM fiasco that only let you install the game 5 times! Save your money and don't buy this game!
Virus disguised as a gameOctober 10, 2008 N. Yang 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My review will contain facts, and only facts, no commentary about EA or what's right and what's wrong. You make your own decisions.
I purchased this game 2 weeks ago.
When you first install this game, it will automatically, secretly, install a program called SecuROM into the Kernel of your computer. The Kernel is the highest administration level of your computer, it can interact directly with your hardware.
Facts:
1) SecuROM installs itself automatically when you install the game. It installs itself onto Ring 0 (Ring 3 is where most programs operate, ring 1 and 2 are your device drivers/OS, and ring 0 is the root of your computer where direct interaction with your hardware Ram CPU etc occurs). Simply put, it has total control over your computer because inner rings have full access of subsequent rings, but not vice versa.
2) The game's installer does not tell you that it is installing this program, and there's no way to prevent it. Nowhere in the manual, the online documentation, EA's website, the game's EULA does it make any mention of this software.
3) SecuROM runs automatically and HIDES itself from your operating system, it hides its folders and .dlls.
4) SecuROM CANNOT be disabled. It is hidden from your OS so you can't tell it's running unless you use special programs. Ending the process does nothing, it restarts instantly.
5) SecuROM CANNOT be uninstalled. Even if you uninstall the game completely and delete it from your computer, SecuROM is still there, still runs on your computer whenever it's on. It has no uninstaller. deleting its folder, removing the registry entries does nothing, it is now apart of your system Kernel.
6) SecuROM DISABLED MY FIREWALL!! It did it without notice, presumably to send information to EA. I don't play online, only single player. It will access your internet whenever you're online whether you are playing the game or not.
7) SecuROM uses system and network resources, and you have no control over the program whatsoever. You can not control it or what it does.
8) My system began crashing at random intervals, when it had never crashed before installing spore.
9) Contacting EA support redirects you to SecuROM support, who redirects you back to EA support who redirects you ...
10) Reformatting my computer was the only way to remove SecuROM and allow it to function normally again.
11) This is the EXACT the behaviour of the most malicious viruses out there, and it is being bundled with official software with no warning to the user - This is ILLEGAL.
Buy this at your own risk.
say NO to drmOctober 1, 2008 Joseph Larose(Hamilton, ON, Canada) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Regardless of the quality of the game, there is no place for DRM in the software universe. If I bought the game, which I won't, I might create beings not so greedy and intrusive as the makers of Spore.
