Spore Galactic Adventures: In Stores Now

Today Maxis released the latest expansion to one of EA's biggest series, Spore. The new expansion, Spore Galactic Adventures, promises fans of the game a whole new layer of gameplay that will add hours of new content. For those who aren't familiar, Spore gives players the ability to design their own alien species and play as them as they start out as a single celled organism and ultimately evolve into intelligent beings exploring a universe filled with other user-created creatures and planets that the player can then manipulate with a variety of tools. Spore has been a major success with more than 100 million user-created items created and shared within the community.

Spore Galactic Adventures enhances the experience of Spore by allowing players to leave the safety of their spaceships and adventure on foot across new planets were various user made adventures will await them. These adventures can include various goals ranging from rescue missions to raids on enemy motherships all the way up to all out war on an epic scale. The expansion rewards players for completing missions by giving them the ability to upgrade their commander with new items giving them special abilities that they can then use on their next adventure.

The game is available in stores now for $29.99 and comes with 16 fun and wacky premade missions along with the "Adventure Creator". In addition, fans of the game will be able to download 10 missions created by the writers of the popular parody TV show, Robot Chicken.

For more information about the release of Spore Galactic Adventures, please visit the official news section of EA's website:

http://www.ea.com/news/spore-galactic-adventures