Spore Galactic Adventures
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Spore Galactic Adventures
Customer Review: Don't bother...
Summary: 1 Stars
First, no good content and won't be for a while. Wait till price drop.
Second, requires DVD in drive to start, contrary to what the original Spore DRM hooplah was supposed to be a feature with... now you have the DRM from Spore AND have to load the DVD anyways.
New Icon to use for the expansion, that looks retarded, (stupid thing to ding, but I don't want two launchers for one game anyways.) Spore icon doesn't load GA content.
Final thoughts,
A for effort, D for execution. Not integrating it with Spore directly and requiring the DVD in the drive breaks the Spore experience into two groups... those with DRM but no DVD switching to play, and those with DRM and thier DVD required to be on hand to play. If I could return it I would. I tend to shelve games that ask me for the DVD every time I want to play them and requiring the DVD in the drive defeats the casual "turn it on and play for a bit dynamic that I liked." I suppose I could have bought it from a digital download source, but oh well. You can't, like all Spore products, it seems, register it on the EA Download manager, so if you buy the disc you better not loose it or your keys because you have NO way of replacing them if you do. Why require install of the EA download Manager if you can't even use it with Spore? (probably for EA to advertise more games on your computer.) Anyways, Spore's a great game... go buy that and creepy and cute, and if you don;t mind having to have two separate icons for Spore and having the DVD in to play it, then I guess you can get this. Otherwise... don't bother.
Customer Review: Another Love By My Kids...
Summary: 5 Stars
My girls love Spore so I got them the Creepy and Cute and this expansion pack when it came out and they love all of them. Didn't want to waste the money on this game, as I feel it's a rip off for a PC game. But they earned it and it's on their PC not mine. So they give it 5 stars and say it's totally awesome!Customer Review: Spore is an adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
Game is good, but you have to insert the disk to play it the game every time. That's basically my issue. Other than that, it's almost like the original Spore, except that the Space stage is enhanced to do "beam down" missions, new space gear, and making and playing adventures is a challenge and I like a good challenge.Customer Review: The Creature stage meets the Space stage.
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Unpleasant experience..
Summary: 1 Stars
We have the original version of Spore which currently runs great, (but not until after much trouble with game patches pushed down from EA.) This Spore Galactic Adventures game never ran on our Mac. Even after emailing EA support ( who recommended fixing XP stuff ( on our Mac?!?) ). We are giving up. My kid was so disappointed. of course Your Milage May Vary(tm)
If the game works for you, great, I hope that others don't run into the hassles we did.
I am probably not going to buy anything from EA/Maxis again, games shouldn't be so much trouble.