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Spore (PC & Mac)

Customer rating on Spore (PC & Mac): 3 out of 5 stars ( 159 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • Sandbox Gameplay - Create our own personal universe where you can evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations and even sculpt entire worlds.
  • Evolutionary Gameplay - Lead your species through stages of evolution from pond-scum to galactic god in Spore's campaign mode.
  • World Creators - Easy-to-use editors allow you to make everything from creatures and buildings to vehicles and spaceships.
  • Shared Content - Spore automatically shares your creations with other players through the Internet. And in your game, you'll explore and interact with a galaxy of content created by other players.

Review

 




Spore is your own personal universe in a box. In this universe you can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations and even sculpt entire worlds. In Spore you have a variety of creation tools at your disposal that allow you to customise nearly every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. 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.

The Spore universe is made up of five phases with different challenges and goals. You may choose to start with the cell phase and nurture one species from its humble aquatic origins to its evolution as a sentient species. Or you may decide to start building tribes or civilizations on multiple planets. What you do with your universe is up to you.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on Spore (PC & Mac): 3 out of 5 stars

Average rating (159 reviews)

Customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars Huge Letdown

james1942 | 03/06/2009 | See all james1942's reviews (1) »

In all the years ive been playing pc games this has been the biggest dissapointment. There was a huge hype, and high expectations for this game but it has certainly failed to live up to it. The gameplay is to simplistic, it requires no real stategy or thinking, sure the creature,building and vehicle creator is mildly amusing but quickly seems pointless when you realise the game you put them into lacks depth. After 3 patches there are still many glitches that further detract from the game.

I splashed out 40 pounds for the collectors edition, and because of the online account system in the game I cant get my money back or even trade it in.

steer clear.

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Great Game!

josh1482 | 28/05/2009 | See all josh1482's reviews (1) »

I got this game in November last year and want you to know that it is one of the best gamesfor a pc or mac for a long, long time. The expansion packs are Coming in regularly and are not disappointing. The Creepy and Cute pack is Great for creating cool characters, at £7.99 it is a must buy. I am also planning on getting Galactic Adventures which is only £14.99. So overall, ignore what everyon else says, if you like being in control of a game get Spore and the future expansion packs.

Customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars A let down

Supernewt | 06/05/2009 | See all Supernewt's reviews (12) »

I was so looking forward to this game, id followed it from teh very beginning of conception. I was expecting fireworks, banners, huge partys in the street...instead it was more like a drunk man in the corner with a party popper!

If it wasnt the the great yet all too short creature creater this would get 1 star. In short:
The fun phases were over too fast and didnt have the in depth and frankly fun aspects it could have.
The terrain was really annoying a buggy getting bogged down far to much.
The building creator was too much and once again very samey, as was the vehicle one.
Combat was simple with little to test anyones skills.
interactions were fun but once again limited.

All in all a huge hype for a huge let down...i hate to say it but dont waste your money on this!

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Technical Details

 

12+ (PEGI)

1/Network

Internet connection required for gameplay

Windows XP / Vista
2.0GHz Pentium IV or equivalent
512MB RAM (768MB for Vista)
6GB HDD Space
128MB Graphics Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
Sound Card

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets:
2.6GHz Pentium D CPU / 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo or equivalent
768MB RAM
Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above

Supported graphics cards:
ATi Radeon series:
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3650, 3850

nVidia GeForce series:
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

Intel Extreme Graphics:
GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts, such as the 945GU, GML, and GMS, will not perform adequately. Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all. The nVidia GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

When launching the game, some Microsoft Vista users may receive a warning about running out of address space along with a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base. If you see this message, it is recommended that you follow the instructions and go to the website listed in the message to update your system.
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.