Spore Pt. II

So, Spore has been released. Have I bought it yet? No. Why? I'm not made of money. Yes, I have money. Just not in the ammounts that allow me to buy the game at this moment. The version I'd like costs US $79.95. This is for what is known as the Galactic Edition.

The Spore Galactic Edition contains:

Spore Game DVD (PC/Mac compatible)
"The Making of Spore" DVD. An exclusive behind the scenes documentary on the making of Spore.
"How to Build a Better Being" DVD. A 50-minute evolution documentary by the National Geographic Channel featuring Will Wright and Spore.
"The Art of Spore." A 128 page hardback book featuring Spore artwork and stories from Maxis' artists.
Exclusive 100-page Galactic Handbook
Exclusive Spore poster
All in a collectable 'Spore Glyphics' hard plastic box

True, US$80 may not seem like a lot. For me it is. That same ammount gets me four fill-ups of gasoline (petrol for my UK readers). It's groceries for a couple of weeks. Frugal shoppers that Jen and I are, this is decent ammount of food.
It's quite a few things.

I could just get the regular edition of the game. US$49.95. Still a hefty ammount to spend.

Spore can wait. Spore: Galactic Edition can wait. Putting food in our stomachs and gasoline in our cars can't.

I'll keep you up to date on this all.

-More to come

Spore

With a little over seven (7) days to go until this game "drops" (releases) in the USA, I am posting to let my readers know of it.

This is a much delayed relsease from the man who brought us such other series as SimCity and The Sims. The latter being one of the, if not the best, selling games for the PC, Will Wright.

This game will allow the player to go from the Cell stage to outter space. Using your own Creature created with the Creature Creator -a stand-alone release. Or the Creator that ships with the full release. Then, the player can down load other Creatures from the Sporeopedia to populate the stages between the Cell stage and the Space stage. Thus allowing said player to populate their worlds.

This is said to be the ultimate god -lower case g intended- game.

Click the title to see the Spore web-page link for more.
Scroll to bottomofblog to see a couple more Spore related
items.

-More to come