Spore (Mac/PC DVD)

Like the title to my review states...this is a creative-imagination driven game, as it is game play. They give you everything you will need for each stage. You design and build your creature along the way as it grows into a more smarter, and capable creature. You start out as a microbe, and progress an improve upon your " critter " as it developes. You can check on Youtube for " how to " on all levels of the game. And how to extend an adjust limbs for ANY kind of critter. Eventually your critter will develop the ability to tribe, make fire, hunt, even war with other tribes. Once you master this, you move to where we currently are " civilized " city an nuclear capable. If you master this stage it comes to a fun stage- " Space....the final frontier,, these are the voyages of the...." you have creator modes for practicaly EVERYTHING. They provide colors, textues, and building tool that would RIVAL the Sims ( HENCE the " new " builder tools of Sims 4 THEY GOT THEM FROM SPORE ! ! THE TOOLS AREN'T NEW ! ) Spore is great ! I play it, when I am not playing my Sims 3. Give it a try...if you like the gsme, look for me, I am CassKORR-ria on Spore, hope you will make me a buddy and enjoy my creations. *** UPDATE- 03-09-15 Had several questions asked if Spore will work on Windows 8, 8.1 YES it will work..on SOME computer systems, you may have to SAVE your game, an RESUME say, after each developmental stage. I have to do this, myself once in awhile, IT DOES NOT BOTHER ME, I play the Sims 3 and with that game, you save an resume periodically as well. SUGGESTION ON SAVING; Shortly after your creature has made landfall, and you have added newer upgraded body parts ( eyes, mouths, limbs, etc ) THIS will keep you from losing ENTIRELY all your effort, should the game crash-usually in the event of your having died when you lost a fight, or an Epic ( giant monster creature ) kills you.

This game is really fun is an oldie but a goodie. The kids enjoy playing it and the adults.

This game has great qualities but the graphics are low standard which is obviously not shown on the cover or trailer but I liked the story, it does get a little to complicated and boring near the end of the game. Although spore has rough patches, all and all it has a nice story line and lasts a long time, also you can have multiple life's stored in the game at once.

I got this for my 9-year-old this Christmas along with my old laptop. At first, it seemed like it was not going to load and when I looked on the box and compared it with her computer it did not have a video card that was supported. So, I kinda freaked out since this was the highlight gift for her for Christmas. However, it did load we just had to register it online. It REQUIRES internet access so beware of that. All that being said, my daughter love love loves this game! She even had some of her friends come over and they took turns playing it and everyone really likes it. It seems kind of addicting actually and I am glad I put parental controls on my kids laptop so it locks her out and I don't have to hear the begging.

Still a great game after all these years! I'm so glad I got this! I love the creativity involved!This game is about learning how to help your creations through being a microbe, to living as a land creature, to a pack hunter or social creature, to a tribal creature, ...and then on to civilization stage - where you take over the world! Finally, you reach out into space to take over the galaxy - by making friends, making deals and alliances, buying other races out, or eliminating enemies. And a surprise waits at the center of the Galaxy....

I had bought SPORE. The installation code didn't work out of the box. The maker's site had NO customer support. I felt betrayed and panicky. Then I called Amazon. Customer service representative Mary solved my problem immediately, and Amazon stood behind the return 100%: full refund with no return cost. I hope Amazon dumps this version of SPORE from its site. It is defective out of the box.

I got this for my son who is 10. He loves the game. The only issue we had was that when we received the game it came with a code to enter in order to fully install it, well, that game code was invalid. SO we ended up having to contact the company and got them to give us a free download of the game rather than being able to use the actual disc that we bought. I thought that this was super super inconvenient and irritating. I'd probably try to buy it through a different company if I was to ever buy it again. It was cheap though, so that was good.

My son has been asking for this game for a few years. I resisted, like I have regarding all video-type games and gaming platforms, until I realized that this had some good reviews and was a whole lot less of a WAR than most of the games played by every other pre-teen we know! My sons are having fun with it and I can't complain - so it was a bargain at Amazon!

Grandson loves spore and all it’s parts. Makes multiple monsters very creative.

Jeux vraiment intéressants et nous apprend l'évolution de la vie toute en boostant la créativité de l'enfant.

Man kann aus vielen im ersten Moment obskuren Elementen ein Lebewesen neu erschaffen.Sehr gut finde ich, dass man die Entwicklung vom einfachsten zum intelligenten Lebewesen gut mitverfolgen kann.das Spiel ist für jeden empfehlenswert.

i am a late (very late indeed) adopter of this game. Just bought it recently (in 2011!!!!! i know!) and totally love it. I was put off by the DRM issue when it first came out in 2008 and I am glad I revisited the thought of buying the game! I have always been a big fan of customisable avatars in games and there is really tones of customisation to play with in Spore, from cell stage to creature stage. The tribal/civilisation/space stage customisation is a bit limited in term of the clothing/gears you can choose from, and the creature stops evolving once it reaches the tribal stage.Much has been said about the game play, i just want to emphasise again that each stage is unique with the space stage being the most in depth of all. it's like having 4 mini games (cell, creature, tribal, civilisation) and a big game (space). Since you can literally create any creature in any way your imagination takes you, the replyability value is very high!the best game of the year 2011 (at least for me) :)

Many thanks! Item in perfect conditions. Fast shipping. A+++++