Hilarious Custom-Created Missions by Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken
Available for Download on Launch Day
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jun 23, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Spore(TM) universe is expanding with infinite adventures! Today,
Maxis(TM), an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio, announced that Spore(TM)
Galactic Adventures, the expansion to the critically-acclaimed game
Spore, is now available at North American retailers and will hit
store shelves internationally on June 25th. Designed to
expand the Spore universe, Spore Galactic Adventures
delivers hilarious new adventures to players who aspire to become their
own space captain, beam down to strange new planets, create customized
adventures, and take their favorite Spore creature from zero to
galactic hero!
"Spore Galactic Adventures enhances the Spore experience
by blasting players off into space, turning ordinary creatures into
legendary Space Captains," stated Lucy Bradshaw, VP and General Manager
at Maxis. "For the first time, players can beam their creatures down to
planets to experience all-new adventures or create custom-made missions
of their own and share them with the world. With more than 105 million
creations available in the Sporepedia, the Spore library
of user-generated content for use in players' missions, the only limit
is their imaginations!"
Expanding on the original Spore game, Spore Galactic
Adventures adds variety and fun by allowing players to get out of
their spaceship and explore colorful, wacky new planets. Players will
turn their creatures into space captains, battle epic monsters in
intergalactic arenas and fight intense planet-side races. In each
mission, players earn experience to rank up their captain and earn
game-changing items such as the Plasma Pulser and Swarm Magnet. In the
box, the game includes 16 off-the-wall missions as well as an "Adventure
Creator" tool that players can use to design their own missions. These
personally-created missions can be shared with friends online and can be
classed in leaderboards that track accomplishments, rank and medals
earned.
In addition to the adventures in the box, players can download ten
all-new adventures created by the writers of the outrageously funny,
pop-culture parody TV show, Robot Chicken. Available for
free to all Spore Galactic Adventures owners, the Robot Chicken
adventures take players through such wacky quests as a mission to obtain
a library card by finding a ruler-yielding librarian her true love, and
an adventure to save a princess by battling demonic snowmen in a
snowglobe. Conceptualized by Robot Chicken co-creators Seth Green
and Matt Senreich, the Robot Chicken Adventures were imagined by
the show's writing team including Matt Beans, Doug Goldstein, Mike
Fasolo, Breckin Meyer, Dan Milano, Tom Root, Kevin Shinick, Hugh
Sterbakov and Zeb Wells. With such a unique cast of imaginative
characters, players can expect to experience missions with exploding
poo, angry yetis, and banana wars.
To support Spore's dedicated fan community, www.spore.com
will feature a bevy of fun content including additional downloadable
adventures, contests and news.
Available for PC and MAC(R) for $29.99, Spore Galactic Adventures
is rated E10+ by the ESRB. The Robot Chicken adventures are rated
TEEN by the ESRB. As an expansion pack, Spore Galactic Adventures
requires the original Spore game to play.
To learn more about Spore Galactic Adventures or to download a
free trial of the Spore Creature Creator, please visit www.spore.com.
For screenshots or press materials about the Spore franchise,
please visit http://info.ea.com.
About Spore
Spore, available for PC and Mac(R),gives players their own
personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes,
build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled
with creations made by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth
of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe:
creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. Spore Creatures,
available on Nintendo DS(TM), takes players on a quest to save their
species and the entire Galaxy. Meet, befriend or fight other creatures
in a number of unique Touch Screen-based activities. Available in fall
2009, Spore Hero, exclusive to the Wii(TM) and Spore Hero Arena
for the Nintendo DS, catapult players into the role of a
fully-customized hero creature fighting to save its planet.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in
1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless
devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA MobileTM
and POGOTM. In fiscal 2009, EA posted GAAP net revenue of
$4.2 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies.
EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com.
More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can
be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile, POGO, Spore and Sporepedia are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other
countries. Nintendo DS and Wii are trademarks of Nintendo. Mac is a
registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective licensors.
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