Tired of your planet? Build a new one as you embark on the most amazing journey ever.
Maxis, makers of The Sims, present the next big bang - SPORE.  Spore is your own personal universe in a box. In this universe you can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations and even sculpt entire worlds. In Spore you have a variety of creation tools at your disposal that allow you to customise nearly every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. While Spore is a single player game, your creations and other players' creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play.

The Spore universe is made up of five phases with different challenges and goals. You may choose to start with the cell phase and nurture one species from its humble aquatic origins to its evolution as a sentient species. Or you may decide to start building tribes or civilizations on multiple planets. What you do with your universe is up to you.

 

CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic-From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages-It's survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
EXPLORE Other Players' Galaxies-Will your creature rule the universe, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
SHARE with the World-Everything you make is shared with other players and vice versa, providing tons of cool creatures to meet and new places to visit.

Windows XP / Vista
2.0GHz Pentium IV or equivalent
512MB RAM (768MB for Vista)
6GB HDD Space
128MB Graphics Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
Sound Card

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets:
2.6GHz Pentium D CPU / 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo or equivalent
768MB RAM
Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above

Supported graphics cards:
ATi Radeon series:
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3650, 3850

nVidia GeForce series:
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

Intel Extreme Graphics:
GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts, such as the 945GU, GML, and GMS, will not perform adequately. Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all. The nVidia GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

When launching the game, some Microsoft Vista users may receive a warning about running out of address space along with a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base. If you see this message, it is recommended that you follow the instructions and go to the website listed in the message to update your system.
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.