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Spore Hero Arena - review

02 Nov 2009 15:47:16 PST

Written by RawmeatCowboy
Full review here A portion of a C3 review… The Spore concept is a difficult one to transfer well to weaker hardware, but thankfully EA have not tried to shoehorn in anything unnecessary to a good gaming experience. Sadly, what is here, in regards to fighting and journeying, doesn’t hold up i...

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Spore Hero Review

14 Oct 2009 16:19:00 PDT

Written by Kris Pigna
Unlike the universe-spanning PC simulation it's spun off from, Spore Hero is a disappointingly generic third-person platformer with some very light "Metroidvania" influences. You start the game with a barely evolved creature that crash lands on an unfamiliar planet, and you then exp...

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Opinion: IGN Updates

15 Jul 2009 18:00:35 PDT

Written by Bethany
Reviews: The Bigs 2 Review Previews: Spyborgs Hands-on Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Hands-on Videos: The Bigs 2 Wii Videos New Spyborgs Gameplay Footage Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Videos Images: The Bigs 2 Images Spore Hero Screens Monster Hunter 3 Screens Bleach: The 3rd...

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Spore: Galactic Adventures Review

24 Jun 2009 10:42:00 PDT

Written by Justin Haywald
When Will Wright first talked about his plans for Spore, he set expectations so high that no game could've possibly lived up to the hype. Spore was a good game, but instead of doing one or two things really well, it was more like several decent games tossed together. Spore's recent expansion,...

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Opinion: ‘Spore: Galactic Adventures’ Final Look

23 Jun 2009 12:30:25 PDT

Written by MTV Video Games
“Spore Galactic Adventures,” the first major gameplay expansion, is an effort to change that. “Spore” has an endless late-game; players who are able to reach the final Space Stage with their created species see the galaxy open up before them into thousands – perhaps more – of discrete sta...

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Opinion: Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore [Critique]

23 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PDT

And toys and play, Wright says, go hand-in-hand. If you step way back and look at Spore as a whole it's meant to show a grand arch, the story of life," her said. "The Sims is like the story of life on Earth, Spore is life with a capital L." Goodwin says Spore "amplifies the imagination."

Original story at Kotaku .

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Spore news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Spore news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Game Review: Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars - Wii -- from News Shopper
• Game Review: Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars - Wii -- from Elmbridge Guardian
• Opinion: Missing Out On a Whole Month -- by sigonasr2 from spore « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Opinion: Missing Out On a Whole Month -- by sigonasr2 from spore « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars Review -- from G4 TV
• Opinion: FCC To The DRM Rescue -- by Joe Haygood from Aeropause Games
• Opinion: "Spore" is Will Wright's Latest Game-Changer -- from HappyNews.com
• Spore - Review -- by Ben from entertainment « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Opinion: Intel Core i7 Memory Analysis – Can Dual Channel Cut it? :: TweakTown -- from TweakTown Articles, Reviews, and Guides ATOM
• Opinion: Spooooooooore -- by Andrew Plotkin from The Gameshelf

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Opinion: E3 Trailer - Spore

26 Jan 2009 09:18:59 PST

Written by rss@youtube.com (GamezChannel)
Spore E3 Trailer Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and...

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Play.tm: Spore Galactic Adventures review

25 Jan 2009 12:42:01 PST

Written by ballightning
Executive producer Morgan Roarty is here to take us around the add-on to EA’s PC hit, and talk of piracy and hardcore dissatisfaction is rapidly side-stepped as we pile into chatter on Spore’s mainstream success. The numbers make good reading, the Creature Creator having been downloaded over 6 million times, with 3 million copies of Spore sold, and over 64 million creatures invented. ‘Goals’ are key - tasks for creatures to complete, and these can be racked-up in succession in true sandbox style, allowing players to probe the limits of the game itself; the platform Maxis are offering us. If nothing more, Galactic Adventures’ toolset should be a sturdy test of just how robust the Spore game engine really is, and the quality and depth of the...

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Opinion: Spore

23 Jan 2009 13:08:13 PST

Written by legoless
In Creature Stage your main goal is to either befriend other species or destroy them. You start out as literally a cell with legs (unless you reform the body a bit in the Creature Editor). At the end of it your creature will probably look quite different. You unlock body parts for your creature b...

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Spore Review

20 Jan 2009 06:13:46 PST

Written by Altered Confusion
The music sounds like it is taken out of a Sims game, and I find myself turning it down a bit. The sounds are what really bother me. It feels like they took the garbled mumbling of the Sims and just made it more ridiculous. It seems cool for the first couple encounters, but as time progresses you may...

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Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars: Hardcore Returns to the Wii [Review]

30 Dec 2008 14:00:00 PST

Written by Brian Crecente
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is one of the better Wii titles of the year. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars was developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock. Released on December 2 for the Wii, retails for $49.99. Played through the entire campaign.

Original story at Kotaku .

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Opinion: Spore at 1.5 Stars on Amazon- DRM to blame

05 Nov 2008 04:18:56 PST

Written by Nick
One opinion which seems to be echoed in every situation involving invasive DRM software is this: the DRM will be hacked out by pirates within days of release (in this case, Spore was available pirated before its release date) so the users who pay for the title get saddled with resource-hog...

Original story at bitburo .

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Opinion: Fury's Game Check: Spore

04 Nov 2008 14:34:22 PST

Written by thefury
Which brings me to my biggest gripe: that your creature never really feels like its evolving. You can scrap and remake your creature as you want, so if you know what is coming, you can really metagame and setup your creature for sucess. That just really takes me out of the evolution of my crea...

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Opinion: Is Spore one of the best inventions of 2008? Time magazine thinks so

02 Nov 2008 10:00:00 PST

Written by John Callaham
Time magazine has posted up a list of what they think are the 50 best inventions of 2008 on their web site. In between selections like the Mars Rover, the moving skyscraper, and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (that qualifies as an invention, apparently) the list include's EA's alien evolut...

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Opinion: Gaming community turning against Electronic Arts over bundled DRM, malware

25 Oct 2008 01:47:05 PDT

Written by Andrew(noreply@blogger.com)
That's a question many gaming enthusiasts have been asking recently following the release of the long-awaited EA title Spore, a game designed by Will Wright (the creator of SimCity) and Maxis (the studio Wright founded, now owned by EA).

Original story at Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog .

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Opinion: Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards 2008: Astronauts, Spore, Biodiesel, and More

16 Oct 2008 11:29:29 PDT

Written by Carol Mangis
A model of the Mars Phoenix lander. SimCity and Sims Spore mastermind Will Wright (here with his wife, Kim) attended to accept an award for his newest creation, Spore. I asked him what was next; all he would say was, "There are a lot of ideas floating around..." We can't wait, Will.

Original story at Gearlog .

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Opinion: EA Brushes Off DRM Complainers As Fringe 0.2%

16 Oct 2008 10:07:00 PDT

Written by Michael Masnick
It would appear that gaming company EA got the wrong message concerning DRM after its Spore DRM debacle. While EA eventually backed down, it certainly did plenty to damage its own reputation in the gaming community. Hell, when we recently posted an article about EA that had nothing to do wit...

Original story at Techdirt .

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Opinion: Buying a license, not a game

29 Sep 2008 21:46:46 PDT

Written by Tobold(noreply@blogger.com)
But EA's lawyers are busy with a class action suit over Spore DRM installing the SecuROM rootkit on the users computer. And in another tricky maneuver they are trying to explain how the manual stating that you could run several accounts with one copy of Spore was just a misprint. Does that mea...

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Opinion: Spore - too clever for its own good?

29 Sep 2008 03:26:03 PDT

Written by andrewlewin
And in the meantime, Spore gave me a major urge to go get the latest SimCity and play that instead. And while I spent a few hours merrily playing Spore one weekend, it was as nothing compared to the obsession that gripped me for hours upon hours building cities the next.

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Opinion: Law of the Game on Joystiq: Rare footage of the DRM in its natural habitat

19 Sep 2008 12:00:00 PDT

Written by Mark Methenitis
Digital Rights Management (or "DRM" for short) is back in the news in a big way with the recent Spore fiasco. DRM, much like a Spore creature, is a quirky animal, with legs of technology, a torso of law, and arms of business, but it doesn't always have a head on its shoulders. But like so many othe...

Original story at Joystiq .

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Spore Review: Evolutionary Creationism [Review]

12 Sep 2008 10:00:00 PDT

Written by Brian Crecente
Spore, developed by Maxis, published by Electronic Arts and released on Sept. 7 for the PC and Mac. Retails for $48 to $50. Reviewed on PC. Used all creators, played through space to space level and Omnipotent rank. Earned Spore Fan Achievement.

Original story at Kotaku .

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PC Review: Spore

11 Sep 2008 21:19:44 PDT

Written by Wade Larson
Will Wright, the man who created the Sims phenomenon, finally gave the world Spore this weekend, after a long development and teasing gamers with the Spore Creature Creator. Unfortunately, like so many movie trailers, all the best parts were contained within that $10 download. The botto...

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Spore producer on reviews, depth, and LittleBigPlanet

09 Sep 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Written by Randy Nelson
Filed under: Mac, PC, Simulations We went into social mode at last week's official Spore launch party to chat with Caryl Shaw, producer of the enormously anticipated "everything sim." Specifically, we wanted to hear her thoughts on how the game's being received around the globe - especi...

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Opinion: The Best of Big Download: September 1-7

07 Sep 2008 01:00:00 PDT

Written by Joystiq Staff
Activision Blizzard hopes Starcraft II shows up in 2009Penny Arcade Expo 2008: 58,500 attendeesUnreal Engine 3 to be used for newly revealed Sky GodsGOG.com to open up for early access next week; free Interplay game offerFirst Spore reviews are predictably mixedEntire X-Com series no...

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Opinion: Seed Salon: Jill Tarter + Will Wright

02 Sep 2008 08:42:04 PDT

WW: In which case, is that to say that we're likely to transition into purely designed creature or entities? WW: No. JT: We are. WW: Right. JT: So would we recognize it? WHO'S CALLING PLEASE? WW: How long was the pulse? WW: Was it the galactic plane? WW: On the other side of our galaxy?

Original story at Seed Magazine .

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