Spore Galactic Adventures

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Product Features

• Terraform planets and for the first time place buildings, creatures, vehicles.
• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001NPCTDC
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 4.2 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: June 23, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #895 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

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

Beam Down to New Adventures. In Spore, you evolved your creature from tidepool blob to galactic traveler. For the first time ever, get out of your starship, bring your closest allies with you, and explore all-new adventure-packed worlds. Complete quests, collect the rewards, then create and share your own missions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Expansion Pack, October 18, 2009

A Kid's Review

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

I'll start with the technical subjects. Firstly, installing this game took a very long time. My dad and I had to re-install the original game, install Galactic Adventures, then get 4 updates, each of which loaded slowly, but things went in general smoothly after that. Although occasionally the game crashes, erasing all progress I haven't yet saved.

Not uncommonly, while playing an adventure, I'll accidently walk my avatar into a something, like a wall, and get stuck. Once you get stuck it's nearly impossible to get out. This glitch is very annoying, because it means the player has got to start the adventure all over again. However, there are lots of good things about this game, too. Making your very own adventures is lots of fun. You can make adventures based on real events! And, of course, you get to play adventures, too! Sometimes adventure's can be quite complicated. Some adventures are super fun. Maxis should make more adventures, though. Since Maxis adventures give your captain 100 points, while non-Maxis one usually give much less. Your captain needs these points to gain new accessories (weapons etc.)

I really like all the great new accessories. You get a wide variety of cool weapons for your captain and some of the friendly accessories are quite fun. Also Galactic Adventures lets you put exo-skeleton limbs on your creatures.

All in all Spore Galactic Adventures is an awesome expansion pack to the original game.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Creature stage meets the Space stage., June 29, 2009

By	Bob Dafter "i like cheese" (somewhere over the rainbow) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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.

1.0 out of 5 stars Mac Users Beware, November 5, 2009

By	R. Sauchuck "rsauchuck" (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

My sons love the original Spore. I was hoping this expansion pack would bring the fun of the Creature and Tribal stages to the latter part of the game (since Civilization and Space are frankly boring)
I installed GA on my PowerMac and right away I knew there was going to be trouble. Error messages about installer scripts not working properly began to show up. The installer seemed to finish successfully though. Then the kids tried to play the game. It seemed to work in the Captain outfitter stage but as soon as they went on to an adventure CRASH! Over and over. I checked the EA site and it appears there is a patch ... for PC only. I was invited to enter my name on there mailing list so when they eventually decide to get around to fixing this buggy POS (piece of software) they will let me know. Others have had similar issues as noted in the EA forums.

What was supposed to be fun for my kids was instead disappointing and frustrating. My 10 year old even offered to pay ME back for my wasted money because he felt so bad about it. Thanks EA for once again punishing your customers.