Product Overview of Spore Galactic Adventures

Product Description of Spore Galactic Adventures

Amazon.com Product Description

SPORE Galactic Adventures is the first SPORE level expansion pack*. Through it PC gamers will experience deeper space stage gameplay than ever before. For the first time, players' spacefaring creatures will be able to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions. This add-on allows players to beam down to planets, play mission-based adventures and even create their own customized adventures for the first time. Level up your Space Captain. View larger. 30+ powerful accessories. View larger. Create & share missions online. View larger. Arrange society as you like. View larger. In SPORE Galactic Adventures each adventure has a unique reward to upgrade a space creature with special accessories -- from an Energy Blade and Stunning Charm, to a Jump Jet and more. Players can fight their way to victory as a Warrior, dance with new friends as a Bard, and much more. Also, a new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions, providing almost endless gameplay possibilities. *Requires the original SPORE to play. Key Features: Play Maxis-created missions all over the galaxy, featuring puzzle, combative, racing, and social gameplay styles. Level up your space captain and ans be rewarded by earning more than 30 powerful new accessories including Energy Blade, Acrobat Dance, Hover, Stunning Charm, Jump Jet. Create your own missions with the all-new Adventure Creator and then share then online. Play and rank an endless supply of adventures when you join the vibrant SPORE community. Terraform planets and for the first time place buildings, creatures, vehicles. System Requirements: Minimum PC Specifications: Minimum Mac Specifications: OS: Windows Vista/Window XP Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher Processor: 2.0 GHz P4 or higher Intel Core Duo Processor RAM: 768 MB Vista/512 MB XP 1024 MB RAM Video Card: 128 MB video card, with Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported 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. The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. Supported cards: ATI Radeon series: X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600; NVIDIA GeForce series 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3100. This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based mac systems. DVD-ROM: 4x DVD-ROM drive or faster 4x DVD-ROM drive or faster Hard Drive Space: 3GB free hard drive space 3GB free hard drive space Other: Keyboard or other input device Minimum PC Specifications

Product Description

The new expansion significantly enlarges the space portion of the original game, and even grants players the opportunity to create and share their own planetary adventures with other folks in the Spore community. In place of the rather tedious space missions from the original game, players will now encounter a wealth of user-created missions that require your species to actually descend to the surface of the planet and undertake a variety of interesting tasks.

Customer Reviews of Spore Galactic Adventures

Rating : Don't bother..., July 31, 2009

By T. J. Shea (Fredonia, KS USA)

First, no good content and won't be for a while. Wait till price drop.
Second, requires DVD in drive to start, contrary to what the original Spore DRM hooplah was supposed to be a feature with... now you have the DRM from Spore AND have to load the DVD anyways.
New Icon to use for the expansion, that looks retarded, (stupid thing to ding, but I don't want two launchers for one game anyways.) Spore icon doesn't load GA content.
Final thoughts,
A for effort, D for execution. Not integrating it with Spore directly and requiring the DVD in the drive breaks the Spore experience into two groups... those with DRM but no DVD switching to play, and those with DRM and thier DVD required to be on hand to play. If I could return it I would. I tend to shelve games that ask me for the DVD every time I want to play them and requiring the DVD in the drive defeats the casual "turn it on and play for a bit dynamic that I liked." I suppose I could have bought it from a digital download source, but oh well. You can't, like all Spore products, it seems, register it on the EA Download manager, so if you buy the disc you better not loose it or your keys because you have NO way of replacing them if you do. Why require install of the EA download Manager if you can't even use it with Spore? (probably for EA to advertise more games on your computer.) Anyways, Spore's a great game... go buy that and creepy and cute, and if you don;t mind having to have two separate icons for Spore and having the DVD in to play it, then I guess you can get this. Otherwise... don't bother.

Rating : Another Love By My Kids..., June 30, 2009

By LRV1997 (Somewhere, But Not Here!)

My girls love Spore so I got them the Creepy and Cute and this expansion pack when it came out and they love all of them. Didn't want to waste the money on this game, as I feel it's a rip off for a PC game. But they earned it and it's on their PC not mine. So they give it 5 stars and say it's totally awesome!

Rating : Spore is an adventure, June 30, 2009

By Cluster Lizzy (Chatham, NY)

Game is good, but you have to insert the disk to play it the game every time. That's basically my issue. Other than that, it's almost like the original Spore, except that the Space stage is enhanced to do "beam down" missions, new space gear, and making and playing adventures is a challenge and I like a good challenge.

Rating : The Creature stage meets the Space stage., June 30, 2009

By Bob Dafter "i like cheese" (somewhere over the rainbow)

That sums it up for you.
Ill get it out of the way and say YES this does, no surprise, have DRM but i bought this to support maxis, not EA.
If your not happy with working to get your game to work then stop reading and remove this from your cart. First it updates to v1.04, which i couldn't start because of a run time error. That was fixed when i found a fix on the forums though. Then it wanted my DVD or it would not start, I have no idea why though. I put it in ther,e fiddled with some stuff and finally by the grace of God it started.
On to the game itself. The mission creating is fairly powerful, and yes you can make some really neat stuff. Then again all of spores user created content has great editors. Getting a basic mission working is easy. However making it actually good takes time. Settings unit paths, placing trees and objects is all done one at a time.
Should you wish to play some maxis created levels, most require you to use one of their characters and nothing else. Now it does suck but they want the match to be fair and challenging.
If you want to play a Community created level (which so far they suck, but a good one will take time) dont get used to the luxury of dragging them from the website to your folder (if you do that). You MUST go through GA to do this.
One last thing i must mention is this uses a different file to start with. If you start from your basic spore.exe and dont see anything, there is another icon you should use.
Overall Good expansion with DRM and terrible problems.

Rating : Looks Great! Actually working, problem., June 30, 2009

By Lisa Mihan

I saw that a new SPORE expansion, Spore Galactic Adventures was coming out in january. I was so excited, I checked the news on this game a lot and then they postponed it two more months. I was disappointed but I was still excited. Then, they postponed it again! Another month! I couldn't believe it! But I actually still checked the news a lot. Then it finally came out and I got it three days after the release date! I was so excited and happy it finally came! Then I put it in my Mac and I figured out how to install it and it installed. Then I opened Galactic Adventures and it came up with a error message and I clicked yes to debug it. I tried again, the same thing. I tried clicking no, the same thing. I kept contacting EA support and I probably spent four hours in all trying to get it to work. But it never did! I was so disappointed I thought to myself, "This game, it looks great and fun, then it doesn't work!" I couldn't believe it! All that waiting and news checking and this is what I get! Come on.