Spore!!!!! and the lawsuit

Ok. About 3 months ago, I bought a game called Sims 2 University (TM). So, it was fine, the usual point-and-click playing style where human-like bunches of pixels do ur bidding and live their lives the way u dictate them to. Sounds fun, huh? hahah

Yep. that's the box cover.

However, that's not the point.

I noticed that besides the manual, there was another EA brochure that gave a sneak peek to what other EA stuff was gonna b released. and I noticed this game called spore. and BTW its not "singapore" as in the shortform, as one of my uninformed frens thot it was. However, i paid little attention to it. that was in particular cos i was already determined to make sims2uni the last game im getting b4 the exams.

However, a few weeks after i got sims2uni, i saw this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dvMDFOFnA

And i responded, "OMG! That's AWESOOME!"

and so went my resolution for not buying anymore games. I waited, and saved up in the process, and waited more, until I finally saw one of my frens holding it in my face. Then I went to CyberActive and raided the shop.

(just kidding la)

Basically, what you do in the beginning is that u play God by controlling a small organism u created in primordial fluid and take on other species of organisms in a fight to survive and procreate. Then as you get sufficiently large u get to go on land to interact amiably or hatefully with other organisms n later u set up a tribe, a civilization and rocket off into space. The whole process involves many rounds of redesigning, improving, etc on the part of ur organism, which is probably one of the selling pts of the game. In fact, u get to design lots of other stuff such as ur organism's tribal outfit, warfare weapons, boats, cars, homes, libraries, other buildings, spaceships, and u even get to terraform other planets! o.O

Overall, it is an epic game. You should try it. (at least dat was wad i would say)

But... just 4 days after i bought the game (whr i managed to reach the civilization stage), I received news that EA had been sued for attaching some harmful anti-viral software onto the SPORE software. So i verified the news. read this if u need some backgrnd knowledge. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24405230-5014117,00.html

When i knew it was true i was lyk :" WTH. I installed this piece of crap onto my NEW ACER LAPTOP which cost 1k (im complaining precisely cos its cheap)!!!!! and my laptop looks so cool too!!!! rawrrrr!"

no wonder my com got weird when i ran the program. but thankfully it still runs fine, altho it gets weird when i start the game (the game doesnt start when i tell it to and tells me that an error occured by starting the game twice when i try to start again. it then starts normally)

oh well, SPORE still rocks and im still gonna play it as long as i can. Evolution is not really what I take to, but its still neat when u can make and share creations. hahah thats the new media for you, all that freedom of expression and sandbox gaming stuff.

but note this: i still hope EA gets its butt sued so that i can i get money (i really might get to, check out the demands of the lawsuit) to reformat my comp if anyth goes wrong becos of that stupid SecuROM software.

So there. A game that ROCKS, but must come with a program that sucks. you choose.