A user known as Khorzho over at the Sporums managed to obtain Spore Galactic Adventures a few days early of its release date.  He listed the pro’s and con’s of the game, but in the end the game gets an overall score of 9 out of 10 and a must-buy (if you’re a Spore addict that is).  If you aren’t, its a 7.5, but fun enough to be worth the $30.  Below are a few pro’s and cons, check out the link for more.

Pro’s:

  • The missions in the Space-Game are offered just like a standard pre-GA mission. There’s no special interface or anything you have to do to get them.
  • Much like the Creature Creator, the Adventure Editor is very intuitive. It’s really easy to get a basic Mission put together.
  • The Pre-made Maxis missions are pretty good. There is even a Grox mission (well… calling them Neo-Grox would be more appropriate).

Cons:

  • The mission assignments in the Space Stage are somewhat random. You don’t always get an Adventure. You sometimes get an “old” Spaceship based mission (like retrieve a plant). If you are looking to only play Adventures, you are going to either make empires mad declining these older missions, or reload saves.
  • The load times are pretty bad in GA. Especially if you are playing a newly downloaded mission. I have a Core i7965, 12GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD, and a GTX295 video card, and new missions take over 3 minutes to load up.
  • Adventure Planets cannot be interacted with, period, except to try the mission again. This leaves your galaxy filled up with old adventures.

Link to the review here (provided by Sporedum!)