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Spore (PC)

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Release Date: 09/07/08
Genre: Virtual Life
Developer: Maxis
Publisher: Electronic Arts
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
ESRB Content: Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence

Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore. A special edition of the game, Spore: Galactic Edition, additionally includes a Making of Spore DVD video, How to Build a Better Being DVD video by National Geographic Channel, The Art of Spore hardback mini-book, a fold-out Spore poster and a 100-page Galactic Handbook published by Prima Games. As part of its license, Electronic Arts released Spore Origins, an arcade-style game for mobile devices, and Spore Creatures, a light RPG for the Nintendo DS. Spore Galactic Adventures, an expansion pack for the PC game, Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena for Wii and Nintendo DS respectively, is in the fall 2009 lineup, and Spore Creature Keeper have been announced as part of the 2009 lineup.

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Price last verified: 3 hours ago (03:11PM PDT).
$13.22
Savings
34%
Deal Factor
5.9
Lowest Price Seen: $8.38 on Dec 04

Reviews

8.1
based on 4 top critics
and 1 virtual rating

8.0
Spore merges multiple run-of-the-mill building blocks into a big, entertaining game.

7.7
Our review of Will Wright's treatise on intelligent design.

8.8
Spore is undoubtedly an amazing accomplishment; it's just not quite an amazing game.

9.0
Will Wright's "Massively Single-player" game delivers on its promise to put the whole universe in your hands.

7.0
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