This is a brilliant expansion to a poor base game. EA/Maxi definitly made the right choice in delaying this for 6 months, the results show. Solves a lot of problems from the original Spore. It makes the Space stage less repetitive.

What he appreciated the most about this expansion pack was the weapons. They add new power features to the characters. Also, it brings more options when visiting a planet. You can therefore land on it, You can also create your own adventures. Great expansion pack!

Did you like unleashing disasters after building a city in SimCity, or SmCity 2000? Spore lets you do this with creatures and at the space age you can destroy planets!

When Spore , the brainchild of simulation game god Will Wright, hit last year, it was met with mixed reviews. Some fans loved its deep creation elements, others hated its shallow gameplay, but almost everyone seemed to agree on one thing: it certainly was a unique experience.

you liked Spore; but felt it needed more purpose

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Parents need to know that Galactic Adventures, which requires Spore to play, doesn't contain anything worse than what's found in the original E10+-rated game. There is some fighting, yes, but it's not realistic because it is against aliens on another planet.

As the snaggletoothed humanoid gator gawks from the monitor, eager for his next space adventure, I wonder how I'm supposed to take this seriously. Sure, I've raised old Gatoroid from the planet Gatorade since he was nothing but a planarian -- from Petri dish to galactic conqueror.

In Spore: Galactic Adventures fans will experience deeper Space stage gameplay as for the first time space faring creatures will be able to beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions.

You may appreciate the idea of the developers to give users the possibility to forge mission in this awesome game, but the fact is that users are (or seem to be) not able to create something worth buying this expansion

Some expansion packs offer more of the same, but Spore Galactic Adventures is not one of them. In fact, it adds an entirely new facet of gameplay to the original game's space stage: adventures that beam your captain onto a planetary surface and send you on a short series of quests.

Fantastic adventure creation tool inspires the imagination; Successfully brings the charm of the creature stage to the space stage; Leveling up your captain adds a nice sense of progression; Online sharing tools are unparalleled

Some tool imitations and other creation issues; Sensitive collision detection and texture pop-in

So Spore : Galactic Adventures has finally hit store shelves, after much anticipation and hype, drawing comparison to Sony's Little Big Planet .  I've gotten a lot of play time with it, and I'm sorry to say that I'm less than impressed.