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Spore Games For Wii and DS, PC Expansions Due In 2009
Supa writes "EA UK has confirmed new Spore games for the Wii, DS and PC, as well as four more Spore expansion packs. From the article: 'Spore fans are finally getting that Wii version of Spore in Spore: Hero. Another new game tie-in will be Spore: Hero Arena for DS, a standalone Spore: Creature Keeper (PC), and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
Kotaku has a more in-depth look at the details of the first expansion, saying, "As with most of what comes from developer Maxis, there's a lot of stuff to soak up whenever they make something new. Adventures is way more than just slapped-on content or a single new feature; you really have to play it to even get a feel of just how much is going on."
Can you please go back to making quality software toys? Perhaps you need to adopt a pseudonym to publish under so that EA can't claim your soul.
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"...and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
Will Wright: Creative genius and big, big fan of money.
Property is theft.
There are a few good videos of actual gameplay on youtube. If the game is anything like the videos I'll be picking these games up as soon as it comes out.
What is the value in having a sequel without the base game on the system?
I would love Spore: Wii.
I'm not so interested in Spore: Hero tho I might have been if there had been a Spore: Wii.
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Penis Creatures running on a Wii. It's perfect.
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Comparing to Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, the hardware ability of Wii is like nothing. However, Wii still cost so much. Why PS3 or Xbox 360 just add a Wii kind of controller then isn't Wii becomes kind of useless? I played Wii once and the graphic is so old school then I cannot stand for it.
And this time, the game box will be accompained by a thug that will follow you to your home and will punch anyone who looks like they're thinking about copying it.
And you'll have to feed the thug.
Spore was fine, but seriously not worth the hype. I enjoyed it, but compared to some of the other Will Wright concepts it is seriously lacking. And no, I'm not talking about the DRM. Spore is a good start, but I hope Will has more up his sleave.
Hmm... Oh wait... is that the game that was hyped to be so totally ground breaking awesome and turned out to be a complete empty hollow shell of a game and a letdown?
Another one? Meh. I lost intrest in that after about 20 minutes. I think i spent more time installing and uninstalling than playing.
They lost their chance with the first version. Now the name spore will forever mean 'overhyped letdown' of a game.
That the Wii version comes with an extra special DRM style handcuff nunchuk. Can't wait.
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If there was ever a game that didn't need to be in HD, Spore is it.
Go to Bob in less than 25 sectrons
Bob has 3 different things he can say, you can pick 1 of 3 responses to correctly correspond to what he says like the game Simon
Bob gives you item
Take item to Sally
Sally takes item, but only if you a dance combo consisting of 3 different possible dances. Also it must be what she asks for
Sally gives you 5 yellow spice, use it to trade for some blue spice by taking the yellow spice to Amy
You already have blue spice in your inventory. Sally gives you 100,000 spore bucks for it
Finally you must kill some turrets from the pen15 civilization in 45 sectrons. Before you can react though, 7 of your planets are at war and 2 ecodisasters are starting!
Sounds like the very definition of "shovelware" to me.
I was pumped to buy the game and was completely disappointed like many I'm sure.
Does anyone find this game to be fun? Will anyone buy this?
I really don't think anyone cares.
And new DRM-Lite for DS!
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Wii wees will make wee Wii players cringe.
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Maybe it's finally the one with the game.
Quite seriously, does anyone want an addon for this game? Basically it was 5 minigames, none of which I would consider "fun".
Basically, what bugged me (besides the DRM) was that there was simply nothing really new or exciting. Everything this game did had been done before, and had been done better before. You have five tiny versions of five different games, none of which are too exciting.
And now I should buy an addon? Maybe containing the content it originally should have had in the first place? Thanks, but no, thanks.
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Is it just me or does it seem that whenever there's a lesser version of some game, it has a longer name.
First we started off with 'Spore' on the PC.
Then it's 'Spore:Hero' on the Wii.
Finally, it's 'Spore: Hero Arena' on the DS.
Can we expect a 'Spore: Hero Arena - Electric Boogaloo' for the Atari 2600?
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Even if PS3 or Xbox360 added a Wii-type controller, it wouldn't help them because it wouldn't be the standard controller for that platform, and thus third-party developers wouldn't be able to count on the player having it. It would suffer the same fate as every other non-standard controller in history (light guns, mice, dance pads, etc.): only used by one or a few games. Nintendo's brilliance (or luck, if you're a Sony or MS fanboy) with the Wii was not that they made a new type of input device available, but that they forced developers to actually use it.
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I completely agree with you. I sold my Wii for what I paid for it and bought a cheaper Xbox 360 so that I could play games like GTA 4, watch movies on NetFlix, and a million other things that the Wii cannot (or will not) do. The only thing I do not like is paying for Xbox Live membership and the damn fan noise of the 360. Wii was pleasantly silent (even when turned on, which was rare).
There simply aren't any interesting games on Wii, for me. Once the novelty of the controller wore off there wasn't much left.
I ended up going with PS3, and it's nice to get a better selection of software (for the teenage and older set) along with bluray and etc.
All of the naysayers here seem to be missing the coolest part about Spore, which is how other people's content gets incorporated into your game. I agree that the gameplay needs work, but this is the first game I've ever played where every time I play, there are new creatures, new spaceships, new things to see. Is that completely worthless to everyone else?
Any idea when I can evolve my music-wielding three-armed googly-eyed overlords into the ultimate galaxy-conquering rock band of the ages?
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I'm disgusted, but sadly not disappointed. I predicted there would be ton of expansions for this incomplete game. And the worst part of it, even when you get all expansions, the game will not be by any means be complete. Hell if I want infinity of minigames, I can go to armorgames.com and play for free.
It started at the lowest rating possible in a number of systems, and then through incredible wheeling and dealing ending up with just above the lowest rating possible.
[amazon], why are they still pushing it?, didn't they learn from anything Windows did with Vista?
You're forgetting the "Dual Shock strategy" Sony used with the PSone, release a new controller with games that support it already out, and then later add it to the standard machine bundle.
Xbox Live's greatest asset is the microphone dynamics. Quite simply, its hearing someone talk and say something funny and authentically having a group of people laugh without pushing a button to turn on their mic and go "ha ha". A fun game is to guess where someone is from based on their accent, or guess their race based on their Ebonics (then check their "mii" picture and see if you were correct).
That said, it often times has bottlekneck issues which I find inexecusable given MS's deep pockets and the fact every person ponies up 50 bucks a year.
In the game, you witness and take part in evolving your own musical instrument from the small stages of harmonicas all the way to pianos and beyond! During gameplay, you play notes as they come on the screen. Several different difficulty settings.