Spore Galactic Adventures
by Electronic Arts
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsAudio: German (Manual); German (Subtitled)
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2009-06-23
Platform: Mac OS X, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 014633153545
Publisher: Electronic Arts
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.
Video Game Reviews of Spore Galactic Adventures
Customer Review: Fails to clear an already low bar
Summary: 1 Stars
While I was not pleased with the DRM issues of the original Spore, I did install and play the game and found it to be a decent time killer that was good for sporadic play sessions. I "completed" the game with a couple of different creations and would occasionally hop on to expand my empires further. Figuring that most of the annoyances of DRM issues were tied to the core product, I decided I might as well grab the expansion. Unfortunately upon installing Galactic Adventures, I was immediately annoyed. One of the few positives of the original Spore's protections was that the CD wasn't required to be in the drive to play it. So of course, installing GA causes Spore to now require a CD to run. Minor annoyance to be sure, but still, a negative.
The expansion itself can best be described as disappointing. The missions are very simplistic, and the gameplay for them is essentially the same thing as the creature stage. You might have to pick up an item and bring it to someone else, kill some enemies, or talk to some npcs, but it adds very little to the gameplay. I has hoped that the expansion would add a little more depth to the game, but the Maxis designed missions are all pretty basic. And you'll go through the small amount of them quickly, and be left to user designed missions, which as others have noted, are seldom worth playing. They're mostly either designed as jokes, or just poorly designed. Gaining experience is a time tested way to keep people playing repetitive content, but it quickly lost its luster in GA for me. The small amount you can get from user designed adventures doesn't help.
Unfortunately, I haven't found the expansion to add anything of value to the game, and at best is a poor use of money. For me, it's actually kept me from playing Spore at all, as I never feel like digging up the CD to play. The lackluster nature of the expansion has also tempered my interest in the core game. Unfortunately, I doubt you can remove GA without deleting and reinstalling spore (and using up one those installations!), and playing through again just doesn't have much appeal.
Description of Spore Galactic Adventures
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. 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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