SPORE™ Collection

the game itself is fun. is that nostalgia talking? probably. graphically its nothing special, quite a few blurry textures and you have to effectively mod the game to run it at 60fps. it does work on linux with tinkering, and at least unlike the steam version you dont have to contact ea support to get the cd keys that you paid for when buying the game. also, dont expect to be able to find hd textures mods overall a decent game, highly recommend if you have nostalgia for it, if not then i somewhat recommend it still

it's barely playable because the crashing rate it's really high and i have a good pc. Please fix this issue

I loved the game and hype was corresponded. BUT after a short while playing, just when you believe your creatures are going to be great , they bring you to build cities, no creatures anymore. Then the game expands to universe, and all the AI stuff and the really exciting thing about creating your creatures goes away. Really dissapointing. No evolution at all.

The last time I bought a game the day it came out, and the reason for that - Spore, the biggest $50 disappointment I ever had. This was supposed to be Will Wright's crowning achievement, Sim Everything, but the game itself was obviously stripped to the bone with the intention of selling Expansion Packs. Which didn't materialize because of the game's failure due to the extremely restrictive DRM scheme - I couldn't eve GIVE my copy away. Now, the game is not terrible. It has some charming aspects, and I'm buying it again here at the very good sale price of $7.49. It was definitely not worth $50, but $7.50 - yeah, it's worth that. The creativity involved in designing things makes up for the deficiencies in the game play (and that stupid DRM is gone! Yay!). I'd still be willing to pay $50 for the game Will Wright wanted, though.

The hype for this game was unreal, the only game in recent memory that reminds me of it is perhaps No Man's Sky. A lot of similarities between the two actually. Impressive tech running under the hood but little else. Bad and misleading marketing and the showing of a game that was nothing like what we actually got. Spore is a tedious and repetitive string of shallow mini-games from start to finish, nothing more. While it is indeed a novel idea and the creation tools were quite advanced for the time (eh, still are) there's no substance behind anything. The game comes across as more of a tech demo in places than an actual playable game. Spore had the potential to be one of gaming's greats, instead it stands as an embarrassing reminder of what happens when a publisher oversteps their bounds and actively screws with game development. No, Spore isn't great and even at a 12$ price tag it's still barely worth a play-through.