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Spore Galactic Adventures

Spore Galactic Adventures

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From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games

List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $21.99
as of 3/11/2010 14:09 CST details
You Save: $8.00 (27%)



New (17) Used (4) from $21.99

Seller: GoGamer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1271

Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: 197184
Model: 014633153545
UPC: 014633153545
EAN: 0014633153545
ASIN: B001NPCTDC

Release Date: June 23, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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.

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Editorial Reviews:

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.

'SPORE Galactic Adventures' game logo
Creating our Space Captain hero 'SPORE Galactic Adventures'
Level up your Space Captain.
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More than 30 powerful accessories in 'SPORE Galactic Adventures'
30+ powerful accessories.
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Create and share missions online 'SPORE Galactic Adventures'
Create & share missions online.
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City/civilization building abilities 'SPORE Galactic Adventures'
Arrange society as you like.
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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
Spore Galactic Adventures is the first Spore level expansion pack. You will experience deeper space stage game play than ever before. For the first time, your spacefaring creatures will be able to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions. This add-on allows you to beam down to planets, play mission-based adventures and even create your own customized adventures for the first time.


Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars Mac user loving this game   February 28, 2010
Tom's mom (Lynchburg, VA United States)
Was reticent to purchase a game with complaints from Mac users, but my son insisted on spending his own money to get this game. It installed on the first try and we've had no problems. The game has been in almost constant use since it arrived in the mail. It's fun going down to the planets for adventures.


1 out of 5 stars Overpriced for what it is   February 27, 2010
P. Hothersall (Chicago, IL)
Chances are, this addon will not work on your game. However, after spending 4 looking through tech support forums you might be able to get it working. You will find 10 maxis missions and alot of junk user created content. The missions might offer 1 hour of fun total, and a handful of new features. I feel that is worth somewhere between 7.95 and $9.99


5 out of 5 stars Addictive game   February 19, 2010
Anne Wallman
My 11 year old son loves this game. He loves creating the missions. My only complaint is that he wants to play it all the time!!


3 out of 5 stars Good, but not fully integrated   February 11, 2010
Me (Silver Spring, MD United States)
Galactic Adventures is a good expansion, it jolts another spark of life into Spore, which, though fun, can get old. Thanks to Galactic Adventures, I'm playing Spore for the first time in months. But it doesn't feel like it. And that's the problem.

When I play, I don't think, "Oh, I feel like playing Spore," I think, "Oh, I feel like playing GA." They feel like two different entities, tied together by a loose connection: creativity. Galactic adventures is very creative, and gives you as much, if not more, creative freedom as Spore. But, this expansion not only covers only the space stage, but it doesn't even do much for the space stage. When you play adventures in space stage, it feels like you switched from playing Spore to playing GA, which you have. Once you finish, Space stage is no different.

There were many other expansions that would've been more immersed in the core game. Fans have for a long time waited for water creatures and water civilizations to be added back into the game. Allowing creatures to choose to stay underwater would affect most of the game, no?

Or just more scientific accuracy. So often the game feels shallow and oversimplified, adding just a few more scientific elements could change that.

Galactic Adventures is worth buying, yes. But it certainly isn't the best that EA/Maxis could've done and is hopefully not the direction they're headed with further expansions.



5 out of 5 stars Looking for something to do in the space stage?   February 3, 2010
J. Nardolilli (Pittsburgh, PA)
The space stage is huge but feels a little empty in the original. After dozens of interspecies wars and genocides, a galactic dictator can get kind of bored. With GA, there's a whole new set of actions to do, including designing levels yourself which feels even more satisfying than making your own ships (though some of the gameplay limitations are frustrating, there are work arounds online). Now, you can alternate between managing and improving your empire, expanding through wars and trade, missions for random allies, and doing these adventures. It adds a needed bit of diversity to the space stage and makes it a lot more interesting.

While the maxis made levels are excellent, some of the user created ones suck. There are exceptions to the latter, however, and the quick play function lets you dive right into adventures sorted by rating to find the diamonds in the rough. Now, if only your captain could drive vehicles...


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