New Spore patch offers free limbs

By Robert Purchese Published 18 November, 2008

Celebrates Creepy & Cute Parts Pack.

EA is giving away free limbs for Spore with a brand new patch.

The 24 free arms and legs are being handed out to celebrate the US launch of the Creepy & Cute Parts Pack today. The update also fixes a couple of minor glitches. Just fire up the EA Download Manager to begin installation.

The Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack launches in shops and on the EA Store here this Friday, and adds over 100 body parts to put together creatures from.

The game costs GBP 9.99, but is also bundled as a free extra when buying the full version of Spore from the EA Store.

Spore arrived on PC back in September and suitably impressed us and proved well worth the long wait. Head over to our Spore review to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • makeamazing #1 3 years ago

    Spore arrived on PC back in September and suitably impressed us and proved well worth the long wait.

    It wasnt really was it ;)

    Kids have played spore, I got bored very quickly of it... doubt i will buy anything new to do with Spore.

  • UncleLou #2 3 years ago

    Out of genuine interest (not a "people are still playing Spore, how quaint" comment), is anyone here who bought it on or near launch day still playing this?

  • makeamazing #3 3 years ago

    Agreed Mrz that was indeed my problem with it. It was too limited for me. Not that it was directly aimed at me, but I think they hyped it too much.

  • the_dudefather #4 3 years ago

    want to play it again at some stage, but 90% of my fun was in the space/creature creator

  • sultanabdel #5 3 years ago

    total over it to

  • jack_klugman #6 3 years ago

    Just fire up the EA Download Manager to begin installation.

    Except, well no not quite, right?

    Rather fire up Spore and sit and wait while it patches itself, idle, by default a full screen application which denies you use of your PC while it faffs away pulling stuff off the internet.

    Great.

  • Discalceaterabbit #7 3 years ago

    Wonder why this add on pack cost £9.99, when the "creature creator" demo cost £4.99, and contained more content?
    Oh, let me guess.
    Pirates.
    No wait a minute, didn't its wonderful DRM solve that problem?

  • Krun #8 3 years ago

    I feel the problem was that the choices you made in creating your creature had no noticeable effect on how the end game played, so the replay value was fairly limited.

  • FooAtari #9 3 years ago

    So are our kids, and wives still playing it?

    Did you play shit games as a kid? I didn't for the most part, I played game that I still enjoy now as an adult. When did kids become the main target for crap games? And when did they start playing crap games for that matter...

  • Yeevle #10 3 years ago

    I played Spore for about a week. Yeah, I think I'll leave it at that. :(

  • magicpanda #11 3 years ago

    Biggest gaming disappointment of the last 5 years or so.

  • Gearskin #12 3 years ago

    A Sassy Creed?

  • FWB #13 3 years ago

    Completely over Spore. It lasted about a week. The game was shallow as hell.

  • Orange #14 3 years ago

    I played it to the end, so it wasn't terrible. However most of the time it just wasn't fun and it certainly wasn't intellectually stimulating in any way. The cute team fucked the game up royally.

  • smoison #15 3 years ago

    Biggest gaming disappointment since..... well ever.

  • mingster #16 3 years ago

    Spork

  • Chufty #17 3 years ago

    Bring on Spore Ikea Stuff!

    Do people seriously pay for this sort of thing?

  • Darren #18 3 years ago

    I'm enjoying Spore but does anyone know why it doesn't support AA?

    I can force 2X AA using ATITray but it seems to render the game unstable, although it's worth it for the improved image quality. Odd that such a relatively basic looking game should lack something like AA support... the game doesn't appear to be using HDR for starters and even if it was most modern graphics cards can handle both, right? My card is a RADEON HD 3850 by the way.

  • Pirotic #19 3 years ago

    With EA they normally charge you an arm and a leg!

  • Rirekon #20 3 years ago

    Patch out SecuRom and I'll consider re-installing, until then no more EA PC games for me.

  • JayArr #21 3 years ago

    I played through to the Space stage twice, and then thought "Why would I ever bother doing this again?"

    Keep your free patches and tacky add-ons, EA, they won't add any re-playability to an already boring game.

  • Svecke #22 3 years ago

    Too bad patches and packs demand the EA download manager, or I might actually consider getting them. As it is, I'm not installing that pile of crap on my comp.

  • Agent_Llama #23 3 years ago

    Haven't played it since launch weekend and have little inclination to do so. Far too shallow for any longevity.

  • skillian #24 3 years ago

    Biggest gulf between reviewer and gamer opinion ever?

    It seems many games reviewers were blinded by the hype.

  • Whizzo #25 3 years ago

    Play about with the demo of the Creature Creator then buy a nice cheap copy of Gal Civ 2, you'll have more fun than Spore ever delivered.

    It's easily the biggest disconnect between reviewers and people who buy their games I can remember, even Black & White had journos eventually recanting their initial enthusiasm.

    "Shite" would be a more appropriate name for this garbage.

  • Orange #26 3 years ago

    "Play about with the demo of the Creature Creator then buy a nice cheap copy of Gal Civ 2, you'll have more fun than Spore ever delivered"

    Absolutely.