Spore

Also known as: Spore Creatures (DS)

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SimCity creator Will Wright is creating his most ambitious simulation ever: one for the entire universe.

Available on: PC, Xbox , PSP , DS , PS2 , Xbox 360 , PS3 , Wii
Genre: Strategy
Expected release date: 09/07/2008
Published by: Electronic Arts 
Developed by: Maxis 
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
1 player Solo
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Latest Stories
Will Wright: 'Games are not the right medium to tell stories'
Will Wright: 'Games are not the right medium to tell stories'
'The Sims' creator now has his own TV drama (kind of)
PC News - Feb 18, 2011
 
New Spore title is apparently an action RPG
New Spore title is apparently an action RPG
Comic-con announcement looks to reveal hackier, slashier side of interstellar civilization sim
PC News - Jul 13, 2010
 
Gaming's would-be innovators
Gaming's would-be innovators
15 ambitious failures that tried to change the world
PC News - Sep 16, 2009
 
33 iPhone games for REAL gamers
33 iPhone games for REAL gamers
They look like your favorites... but how do they play? We guide you through the minefield of mobile gaming
PC News - May 12, 2009
 
 
Latest Comments
coratican45  - 1 year, 9 months
Hey gamer49, I think you're right. I also like how you can design spaceships and even an entire planet! I think it would be awesome if they made an expansion pack for making a world of creatures and stuff under water, and maybe they could call it Spore Aquarius or something.
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Ramthundar  - 3 years, 4 months
So, everyone has been complaining about the DRM. My question is: Will it prevent me from buying a used Spore game on Amazon?
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crazyqazqaz  - 3 years, 4 months
I know what you mean Ramthundar, I went on Amazon too and they gave it a sh*t review. I getting it for my birthday anyway though. TO ANYONE READING THIS, GO ON AMAZON AND CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF!!
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gamer49  - 3 years
i say the game is pretty good you get to control a species of your own.
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Features
Gaming's would-be innovators
15 ambitious failures that tried to change the world
Sep 16, 2009
33 iPhone games for REAL gamers
They look like your favorites... but how do they play? We guide you through the minefield of mobile gaming
May 12, 2009
You, too can be a Sporn star
Spore modders get creative…and rather horizontal
Oct 22, 2008
TalkRadar 18
Our podcast is finally old enough to vote! We celebrate with talk of piracy, Wii Music and new franchises that already feel old
Sep 12, 2008
Finish Spore with a Star Destroyer!
See Spore's fan-made tributes to Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, and more
Sep 09, 2008
TalkRadar 17
This week we welcome Seth Killian of Capcom and talk Street Fighter, Mega Man, canine companions and much more
Sep 05, 2008
Exclusive Spore videos!
Will Wright builds you a spaceship, plus 5 more interviews and demos
Aug 12, 2008
The Top 7... new games that you already played
Are there no new ideas? See seven fresh titles that'll give you a case of déjà vu
Aug 11, 2008
Spore’s rudest creatures
See the giant genitalia and naughty nymphs that made it past EA’s army of censors
Jul 10, 2008
Digg monster sighted in Spore
Popular site suffers Creature Creator clone treatment
Jul 09, 2008
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News
Will Wright: 'Games are not the right medium to tell stories'
'The Sims' creator now has his own TV drama (kind of)
Feb 18, 2011
New Spore title is apparently an action RPG
Comic-con announcement looks to reveal hackier, slashier side of interstellar civilization sim
Jul 12, 2010
Jeff Minter starts working on Spore
Space Giraffe creator delves into Will Wright's game
Jun 23, 2008
BUSTED! "Boobalicious" Banned!
Spore says "no" to nipply bits!
Jun 18, 2008
Try the Spore Creature Creator now
Download the best demo you'll ever see
Jun 17, 2008
Spore update - new shots
Creature Stage part of the game revealed
May 29, 2008
EA: Quality overrides ship time
CEO John Riccitiello drives home his focus on quality for EA titles
May 14, 2008
Spore Creature Creator launching June 17
Demo and retail version of the pre-Spore experience dated
Apr 25, 2008
Spore Creature Creator out June
Maxis spills beans, although EA UK tells us no retail release is confirmed for UK
Apr 22, 2008
Play Spore, Dead Space next month
EA to roll out titles at Sci-Fi-London, "most of them" playable
Mar 18, 2008
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Review
Spore
Does the most hotly anticipated game of 2008 (and 2007, and 2006, too) live up to our epic expectations?
Sep 03, 2008
» Full Spore Review
Previews
Spore Galactic Adventures: The new LittleBigPlanet?
The low-down on Spore's DLC game creator and what we plan to make with it
Jan 20, 2009
The low-down on Spore's DLC game creator and what we plan to make with it. » Read Full Spore preview
Spore Creature Creator - hands-on
EXCLUSIVE footage of men, monsters and the cutest cthulhu ever
May 23, 2008
The Spore Creature Creator will launch on June 17, giving gamers a tiny taste of the massive game for the paltry price of $9.99 (9.99 Euros in Europe). Buying the Creature Creator separate from Spore has a couple of perks - you get a head-start on uploading your creatures to the Spore community site, the chance to make your own creature movies for YouTube and a $5 rebate on the full game from Amazon and Target retailers - but more » Read Full Spore preview
Spore
Interspecies relations break down
Apr 07, 2008
At each of Spore’s five stages, from the microbiotic to the intergalactic, there is an eternal choice: kill or... don’t. When you start, as a microbe with teeth, it’s kill or be vegetarian. When you evolve enough to crawl from the primordial soup to dry land, it’s kill or sing little songs to befriend things. Once your species forms a society and decides what buildings to have in its first village, it’s kill or » Read Full Spore preview
The never-ending game
Spore offers more than you can see in a lifetime
Feb 12, 2008
It’s been almost three years since Spore was first announced in 2005 at the Game Developer’s Conference. Since then, fans and critics have been gushing over every detail and lamenting over every delay. It’s no wonder why there’s so much hype about the latest title from Will Wright, designer of other infamous time suckers like The Sims and SimCity. Everything revealed about Spore so far reads like a bullet pointed list » Read Full Spore preview
Spore
A new creation myth
Jan 15, 2008
Jan 15, 2008 Playing with Spores electronic clay nearly a year ago, we were struck by just how complete the character creation tools were. Spores remit, to take a species from microbe to UFO, may be massive but back then it felt ready, and real. Stretching out flesh, bolting on limbs, arranging faces - it all worked. Then, nothing. The game went back into development. New hires (Soren Johnson, the lead designer of Civilization 4 was the last high-profile addition), and no news pointed to a » Read Full Spore preview
Spore - updated impressions
It's gone all Pixaresque
Oct 31, 2007
Oct 31, 2007 Knees shouldn't go at that angle. What's he thinking? How many mouths? We mean, surely one is enough? And what the hell is that doing there!? Spore is a sight to behold: a strategy game made up of a cluster of gaming styles that take you from a protozoan swimming in a primordial soup to the commander of a spaceship, all in about eight hours. We're introduced to an amoeba, a purple blob with big cute eyes squidging across a microscopic world. There's been a lot of evolving since » Read Full Spore preview
Spore - hands-on
Will Will Wright's latest be worth the wait?
Sep 20, 2007
Sept. 20, 2007 So, you're aware that Spore is a life simulator in which you (as a Play-Doh-wielding god) raise a species up from a single-celled organism all the way through to a planet-destroying scourge of the galaxy. We're on the same page, right? The game, rather like the whole concept of life itself, is far too big to describe in the space allotted - so check with Mr Google if you're not up to speed, then rejoin the printed-page party right here as soon as you can. As we're doing the » Read Full Spore preview
Spore
Life, the universe and everything... has been delayed
Feb 21, 2007
Looks like Maxis' evolution sim has sprouted roots and chained itself to the pits of developmental hell. But, despite the fact that its been in the works since 2000, Maxis isn't feeling the pressure to release Spore before it's ready. And quite rightly too, because this is a labor of love for Maxis and their head designer, Will Wright. This god game represents the pinnacle of over twenty years of simulation game evolution from the Californian software company, the logical culmination of their » Read Full Spore preview
Spore
Sims creator talks us through his latest masterpiece
May 17, 2006
Exactly a year after we were first introduced to Spore, Sims developer Will Wright's amazingly ambitious evolution game, we've had a more detailed look at two stages of gameplay. There are six stages in total, beginning with the cell stage - which Wright says is a bit like Pac-Man in style - and evolving through the creature, tribal, city, civilization and space phases. At creature level, Spore uses the same creature editor we saw last year, which enables you to throw together varied bits - » Read Full Spore preview
Spore
Will Wright for six-headed president!
Mar 07, 2006
Amid the sometimes tired deluge of sequels and copycat adventure games featuring gangsters who steal cars and shoot innocent pedestrians, there can be hidden gems. Will Wright, the creator of the Sims franchise, is fashioning just such a gem: Spore. Developed for PC, Spore is a strategy game revolving around the development of your species, then the advancement of your civilization. You continue exploration through a universe so staggering in size you could literally play it forever and still » Read Full Spore preview
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ESRB Rating
Spore is rated:
Everyone 10+
Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence
 
PEGI Rating
Spore is rated:
Rating Pending