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Spore: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

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Author: David Hodgson
Publisher: Prima Games
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1372

Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Pstr
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 7.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 0761557806
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761557807
ASIN: 0761557806

Publication Date: September 7, 2008
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Product Description
•Exclusive Spore poster and comic!
•Make cool creatures, fantastical buildings, and strange vehicles with our expert modeling tips.
•Follow the evolution of our Spore from single-celled Lumpy to Space RangerVonClumpy!
•Full catalog of creator parts, complete with stats and tips for use.
•Super abilities, achievements, and enough detail to please any evolved tool user.

Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

decent guide need more info on grox September 12, 2008
Kenneth Geddings Jr. (Charleston, SC United States)
11 out of 34 found this review helpful

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the guides pretty decent cept they do not tell you how to actually really defeat the grox and get to the center of the galaxy oh well.. guide is still cool i guess.

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2 out of 5 stars

Worst Guide I've Bought September 17, 2008
Elfdale (Southern California)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful

I've had really good luck buying strategy guides but this one was the worst and an obvious waste of money that I regret.

Pros:
Good details on every single selectable item and lots of good examples of setups for every single stage except one.
There are some hints periodically that I didn't think of till reading this guide.

Cons:
The only stage this book is terrible at is the most in-depth and difficult stage in the game. The Space stage. 80 - 90% of the book is dedicated to the earlier stages but only a sliver is on the hardest/most complex stage.

Overall impression:
[...]. Do a little homework online for any details/hints/walkthroughs you might need and you will be far better off with even more cash in your pocket. Sure there are a couple of hints in there I didn't think of, but not [...] worth of hints and help. Maybe [...] worth. Save your money.

Side venting regarding the game.... I HATE DRM. They are going to DRM Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 as well. What JERKS! I'm the type that uninstalls a game, reinstalls, uninstalls, reinstalls. It's all based on what I feel like at any moment in time and given that I own hundreds of games, it's easy to change my mind for something else. The DRM did NOT affect the 2 stars I gave to the guide. The guide really did deserve 2 stars. The game is worth 4-5 stars but I gave it a 1 because I don't want to be annoyed when I reinstall my own game. Why should I have to justify my life to some stranger just to get another install license?

3 out of 5 stars

Incomplete, but still useful for addicts September 16, 2008
James G. Driscoll (Santa Clara, CA United States)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful

The guide is useful, in that it lists some information that you wouldn't otherwise get (like how trading spice actually works in space stage).

But, it's told in storybook form, which I find annoying. Seriously, most of the "story" is covered by the in game tutorial, so why go over it again for over 3/4 of the book?

It contains at least a couple charts that are meaningless (how other space empires react to you - what do the numbers mean? No idea, they never say.) It contains references to information that would probably need more fleshing out (what are the reaction bonuses that you have for other empires? They mention it for civ stage, but not space stage?)

It contains relatively too few strategy tips, and those that are there are often buried in otherwise useless stories about their creature "Clumpy".

The poster is really ugly, and despite what the cover says, there's no "comic" inside.

In short, a slapdash effort for Spore addicts only. I could have done better if given a couple weeks - they spent more effort on the graphics than the text. My guide would have had almost no graphics, and about 5 times more text.

4 out of 5 stars

Decent guide for a publisher ruined game September 11, 2008
Ryan Gilbert
7 out of 23 found this review helpful

From what I've read of this guide it is done pretty well. It gives alot of tips on how to evolve your creature the way you want to and strategies for helping you to succeed and not wind up getting eaten!
The only thing keeping this guide from getting a 5 star rating is it doesn't mention how to get rid of the draconian SecuROM DRM.

2 out of 5 stars

Not a very good guide September 11, 2008
Sassypoch (Federal Way, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this guide thinking it would explain a lot more about creating spores, buildings, and vehicles. It shows you some pretty awesome creations and the parts to build them but I had hoped it would show you creative ways of adding color and using the eyedrop tools. I don't understand why it spends so many pages explaining the most basic part of the game, and like another reviewer said, no time at all on the space stage. I am very disappointed with the guide and think it was a waste of my money.

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