EA have announced Will Wright's hotly anticipated creature/life/God sim has finally gone Gold and will be ready to ship fr its September 4 release date.

“We are so excited to finally get Spore into the hands of fans and players,” said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. “The Maxis studio has had an absolute blast creating Spore, but the fun is just beginning. The most engaging stories are truly the ones people create themselves, and we can’t wait to see how players not only craft and explore the Spore universe, but hear what stories they have to tell as a result.”

Spore is EA's attempt at toppling their own massively popular series, The Sims, with an accessible, intuitive title that puts you in charge of creating life, from the beginning. For more check out our Spore game page.

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Will be interesting to see how this pans out.. It has the gimmicks.. time will tell if it has the gameplay to back it up.

That is the best release date ever.

Cause its my Birthday :D
Maybe its a sign...

But that is my birthday so how is it your birthday?

Now to decide... Mac or PC.

Pre-Ordered it, should be good. We'll see how it goes.

V.

any good pre-order deals around at the moment?

W00t!

creature creator seemed not as good as i thought it should be. not as much customisation... maybe i just missed a few features. but like someone above said, it has the gimmicks, does it have the gameplay? we'll see.

PCPP reviewed this. Gave it a 9.

Game is out. Just went and picked up my pre-order of the Galactic edition from EB about an hour ago.

Is the game full of penis monsters and cocktopus's?

Me too. Nice Galactic Edition bundle imo. Installing now.. Can't wait!

I spent $2000 on a new monitor and another $2000 on a new system just to display this in all it's glory!

Can anyone confirm whether there is both pc and mac versions are on the dvd? Box art says yes. Forums say yes. Reality says ?

Seems only EB got their copies today, I went to JB Hi-fi on my way home from work, and none of the ones around the city had their stock yet, they're expecting to get it tomorrow around lunchtime :(

wtb ea store to unlock it already

So whats the deal people who picked it up today, are you able to install it and play it fine? Or is there some kind of online auth thing that isn't switched on yet that stops you?

Cant login to Sporepedia. That's about all , but my game is full of Maxis content anyway , so who cares.

so how is this game? worth buying?

So far I'm on the fence.

The first stage (cell) is pretty amusing, it's very short and quite fun.
The second stage (Can't remember the name) is f***ing s***. It's so stupidly kiddie, has no depth and is boring as hell.
The third stage (Tribal) I've only just started, it's becoming more RTS styled now, you control various units etc etc.

So yeah, I'm not sure about it - but I think from the Tribal stage upwards the game is supposed to become cooler. I hope it does, because so far it's pretty meh.

I preferred the cell stage, the second stage wasn't so bad. James has gone a lot further and it doesn't look as amusing to me anymore now that it's about building cities and buildings, cars etc. Preferred the cute animal stage.

Just picked it up then. If it is s*** I am going to kill the whole forum for hyping it up.

A few guys here at work picked it up, I'm going to wait and see the general response before diving in with my tungshiens.

I'm with Tibbets. I have been hugely anticipating Spore and I am sitting on the fence also. I have entered the Civ stage this afternoon & while the game is challenging from tribal onwards so far, I still feel it lacks a little depth. It is great fun though, just seems to be missing something.

May aswell utilize this thread and share content as we go though

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but, but, everyone said it was going to be awesome. it has to be awesome. Just keep telling yourself that. It is awesome

it is awesome

it is awesome.

its always looked s*** and boring how hard is it make up your own minds about something jesus

if u played not online does it really make a difference?

I got to the galactic stage and got bored

From the stuff that I have read about it, I gathered it was a game for casual type players. There isn't enough complex gaming mechanics involved to keep the more hardcore crowd amused. It is simply too easy for a hardcore player to grasp the concepts and 'win'.

I have reached Space stage. Incredible!

I want to be able to upgrade my penis monster at a greater rate. Slow stuff.

yea im up to civilization.. creature and tribal stages were a bit bleh.. im playing on hard and tribal was no challenge at all.

Spore for iPhone is available in the appstore now too.

Spore for iPhone is available in the appstore now too.

Have been playing it (although didn't get mine from Appstore.. NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK SAY NO MORE SAY N MORE) on the iAwesome. Probably the only interesting game I've played.

Creature stage was cute.

The tribal stage had clumsy controls and exceedingly basic gameplay. It was short so that kinda makes up for it.

Just got into the civ stage, creating the vehicles and buildings is pretty fun.