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Spore Galactic Adventures
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #750 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 014633153545
- Released on: 2009-06-23
- ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
- Number of discs: 1
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Subtitled in: German
- Dimensions: .55" h x 5.32" w x 7.48" l, .26 pounds
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.
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.
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Customer Reviews
Amazing Expansion Pack
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.
The Creature stage meets the Space stage.
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.
Mac Users Beware
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.
