Spore Class (PC DVD)

Spore is a fascinating game. My daughter plays it whenever she can. However, I do not recommend that you buy the PC DVD.I bought 2 of these, and having installed the first, I could not get it to run. I tried with the second disc, and with another 2 machines, Windows 10 and Vista, but it would not run on these either. I discussed this with a Microsoft technician. He confirmed that my disc drive was working properly. He also commented that this game is now only recommended for download. I contacted the publisher, Electronic Artists (EA). Thankfully they accepted the product codes inside the boxes as a credit for the downloads, but I had to send a photo of a box and disk, and a printable copy of my Amazon order confirmation. I have also had to install EA's "Origin" games portal in order to access the Spore server.The game is working well on Windows10. However, there is a known glitch at later stages in the game where your creature is not how you created it to be and is marked "Bad Data", but that does not interfere with the gameplay.My daughter still loves it.

My 11 year old son has wanted this for a long time having seen videos on YouTube, but as we've been Ubuntu users for the last 8 years there was no way he could play this. Eventually I caved and built a Windows PC, then after lots of digging and finding conflicting information around whether this would work on Windows 8.1, decided to take the £6 gamble. I can report that it works fine on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Son likes it, so it's £6 well spent as far as I'm concerned.

My daughter is really enjoying this game and show no sign of losing interest after a couple of weeks. We had no issues installing or running it on our Windows 7 desktop. My only slight bugbear is that it causes confusion about some aspects of evolutionary theory, otherwise I would rate it 5. It looks likely to be of more interest to older children and young teenagers, but that is probably the primary target market anyway.

Brought this for my 8 year old. It was a bit of a faff to load up on the PC TBH. After having to uninstall it twice we eventually got there. The game itself is great. You have to design various creatures & help them to survive & evolve. My son says its fun, exciting and well worth buying! :)

Rich and satisfying game, even if it does fall prey to Peter Moleneux syndrome. However, anyone who has an insight into the woes of video game development will understand the reasons for its short comings.Overall rating 8/10.***notice: do not install on current Windows Gen, it is not compatible.

Great game, I'm glad I re-bought it, the lack of an instruction manual was a bit disorientating, but the in game instructions cove that, and I knew how to play anyway so, s'all good. It's a fun game, inspiring lots of creativity, EA could learn from games like spore where it isn't practically Paying to Win -_-

I bought this game to pry my son away from the dreaded Minecraft. It worked! He loves it.It's a very absorbing game. It's possible to make infinite spore creatures and vehicles etc. It will take ages to get boring. The graphics are cartoonish but nice. The sound effects are fun. It's very funny to see the reaction of your creature to various body parts and colour schemes. You actually want to please it!It takes hours to complete a full campaign. This genre of game can be deadly serious. Spore is strictly tongue in cheek.

When Spore arrived, I downloaded it which was fine and then played it. If you know spore then you will know that it goes through stages (cell being the first out of 4). I played through this first stage without any problems but when I got to the second stage it had a lot of glitches in it! I then looked at the box and realised that my laptop did not have the high enough RAM to support this game. When I was looking to buy it, it did not say what requirements you had to have so when buying it be aware of this. I love this game usually but not with glitches in it!!!