I'd give spore a miss, the DRM issues take the piss....you can only install it three times then it won't work anymore.

So this means that if your harddrive dies, or you get a new computer you use up one of your installs. Installation procedure crashes? use up one of you installs.
It's shocking and is why spore is being pirated like crazy.

I hate the way that honest people who buy games instead of pirate them end up getting shafted, while the pirates remain unaffected.