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Losing time to Spore..
I’m just back from Edinburgh, Scotland, where I was invited to a nice wedding. While over there I did a bit of shopping and wandered into a Game store on the main street. Seing that Spore was out, I hastilly picked up a copy and for a little bit cheaper than I would have gotten it in Dublin. So when I got back I threw the disk into my nice shiny gaming rig.
The install went without a problem. The only issue I had was that it didn’t ask me if I wanted a shortcut on my desktop. This was important because as I use Vista, if you don’t install programs on the C drive, you don’t get a program menu item to click on. Still I was able to do it manually directly from the folder. Not any trouble at all really.
So I started into the game and looked up and it was 3 o’clock in the morning! And the only reason I looked up is that I was getting a good talking to about leaving all the lights on all night! What a game. It just draws you in and keeps you going. For hours! A couple of nights now I’ve been enthralled by the game. So easy to play and yet keeps me – a pretty hardcore gamer – going.
Now I really don’t have the kind of witty mind that you need to review games so I’ll leave it to the experts – Games Radar had this to say about it. Also as soon as I started playing I knew this was a great opportunity to break copyright laws everywhere… As some great pictures here show. Now I didn’t quite manage this level of brilliance, in fact I managed about about a million times worse than that but it really shows what you can do. But its not all about copying stuff that’s already been done – it really gives you the chance to show off some originality!
Now that’s just my opinion – and lots of people differ from it. In fact – check out the reviews on amazon. People are going nuts over the DRM stuff. And the simplistic nature of the game – but I love it. Its easy to pick up and play and can see this being one that even the better half might have a go at.
Tags: Amazon, Brilliance, Copyright Laws, Dublin, Game Play, Game Store, Games Radar, Gaming Rig, Hardcore Gamer, Nature Of The Game, Originality, Program Menu, Review Games
About Dan O'Neill
As well as principle writer here on TheNetflow, I am also the owner and lead developer over at 26 Squared. Having worked around the IT industry and the web for almost 10 years, I use this site as mostly my personal vehicle for sharing what I can.
Just bought a copy last week myself and me and the girlfriend play it quite alot. We do find it pretty easy though, maybe because that’s the setting we chose
– but there’s seems no challenge and we are in combat mode all the time!