That’s right andPOP gaming fans. Courtesy of EA and Maxis, we want to give one of our loyal readers the chance to win a copy of Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii Console.

Create a creature with over 250 parts, and become a hero! Fight to save a planet and use your Wii remote to unleash awesome attacks.

Just fill out the form below and we will contact the winning contestant. Contest ends Dec. 2nd 2009.

This contest has ended.

Check out www.sporehero.com for more information.

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OK, so I went for the OVER 9000 joke in the title.  Deal with it, it’s still true.

SPORE’s Galactic Adventures allows players to create their own adventures to play or have other play online.  Whether it’s battling bizarre and deadly monsters, participating in intense races or puzzle games; players can design the most horrific, brutal or mind-boggling missions for themselves, or for their fellow SPORE players.

The real news here, folks, is that after only about a month SPORE: GA has over 100,000 unique missions created by their fans.  I believe that comes close to trumping the amount of genitalia-based creatures that flooded the internet after SPORE was released last year.  Ah, maybe not.  But hopefully SPORE users will devote more creative energy and time to that next planetary mission and not the Penis-With-Legs Mk. XXVIII.

Myself, I want to create that unbeatable mission.  Something so dastardly and insane people will hate me just for thinking it up.  Maybe I’ll just base it off of Out of this World for the SEGA Genesis.

I hate that game.

Cheers!

Check out our Spore: Galactic Adventure review on andPOP.com too!

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SPORE:  Galactic Adventures is an expansion that will kill a few hours at a time, whenever you feel like it. I think that’s an important distinction to make – the difference between your immersion in a truly epic game that you have to really pull yourself away from, and a game that is easy to break away from, but is still fun to play for hours at a time.  Through it’s simple interface for play and very in-depth character(creature) creation process, it can be a pleasant diversion whether you’re more into the gaming itself, or (like me) you enjoy playing around with how bizarre a creature you can make, or how human you can evolve it.

The game begins at the level of a single-celled organism, and you evolve your creature (I named my creature Lepreclops, after my two favourite mythological beasts) from an amoeba-like blob to a sentient, spacefaring species.  The funny thing is that even at the point of civilization I found that my creature still seemed animalistic to me, which bothered me a bit.  The progression of the stages goes from simple and fleeting (like the amoeba-stages) to the more engaging and complex (like spacefaring eras).

The creature creation system features some new parts not featured in the original SPORE, so maybe a million more combination of parts.  I’m not kidding, it’s that diverse. So if you’re like me, and just want a diversion for a few hours here and there, then you may want to take your time evolving your creature.

Spore in action.

One interesting feature of the Galactic Adventures expansion is that users can design their own missions.  Which means that any given planet your species lands on, may or may not have a maze of certain death awaiting them – like an intergalactic IKEA.  Of course, it could also be a happy funland rescue-the-kitten mission.  It depends on how sadistic the player is.  So,most likely a death-maze.

All in all, I found this game to be somewhat engaging but at the same time, I found it a little lackluster in almost every aspect but the creature creator.  Lucky for SPORE, the creature creator alone is pretty much worth the buy.  It’s although worth a few hours of your time, here and there.

Cheers.

Graphics: 4/5

Interface: 3/5

Gameplay: 3/5

Replay value: 5/5

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Spore Galactic Adventure

For the PC

The expansion pack for the stellar Spore series.

Giving the player the opportunity to make their creations into a space captain and go the route of galactic conquest.. or exploration. Creating missions and sharing them online is a big plus as well as now having the opportunity to download custom missions created by the writers at ROBOT CHICKEN!

Fight Night ROUND 4

Available for PS3 and XBOX 360

Giving players control of a roster of 48 of the best boxing has to offer, from the greats like Mohammad Ali to the recent pound for pound most vicious Manny Pacquiao.

The title features revolutionary stick control and now features inside boxing for those up close knockout moments.

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