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Electronic Arts is releasing a special version of the much anticipated game called Spore Galactic Edition. Currently it’s still in
development.

I’m looking forward to Spore. Although I don’t always purchase the Special edition copies, I will be purchasing this edition. Spore Galactic Edition has a lot of extras that you cannot find in the regular game.

• Making of Spore DVD
• How to Build a Better Being DVD from the National Geographic Channel
• The Art of Spore hardback mini-book
• Fold-out Spore poster
• 100-page Galactic Handbook

I’m looking forward to all the extras that will be included I’m really looking forward to the Making of Spore DVD along with How to Build a Better Being. The latter would be handy right now. Last week, EA has created additional excitement for this upcoming game by releasing The Spore Creature Creator. It is available for Mac and Windows users. There is a free version or you can purchase the full copy that unlocks all creatures for $9.95.

I downloaded my copy last week. You’ll find the same tools in the Creature Creator that will be available when the game is released. Spore Creature Creator has its on channel on you tube. Although I knew it was going to be popular I had no idea it would take off as it has. The Spore Creature Creator was released last week and over one million creature designs have been created since it was released. The Spore Creature Creator allows users to create and share their creations on YouTube.

I enjoy open-ended gameplay. The Elder Scroll series definitely falls into this category, and I could spend hours wandering around that massive environment. I’m looking forward to Spore because it’s massive and will give me the in-game freedom I crave. Spore is being developed by Maxis and is being designed by Will Wright. It’s hard to place Spore under one genre since there are so many stages to the game. Will Wright has called it “a multi-genre massively single-player online game.”

In Spore, you have the ability to control the evolution of a species from the beginnings as an unicellular organism through development as an intelligent social creature. There are five phases to the game; Cell, Creature, Tribal, Civilization, and Space. According to some reports the first four phases should take between 10-15 hours to complete. That’s a lot of game time! It’s going to take me a while before I’m able to travel to space. I don’t have a lot of time for gaming.

Spore will also be available for mobile phones. The game will be simplified and will give players the chance to try to survive as a multicellular organism swimming in a tide pool. Unlike the full version of the game the mobile game will be about an hour long. The iPhone version will use the device’s touch capabilities and 3-axis accelerometer.

Spore Galactic Edition will be released simultaneously for Mac and Windows. Europe will receive it on September 5, 2008. It will be available in North America on September 7, 2008. The cost will be $79.99.

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