Spore Hero Arena is the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

 spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 of Spore Hero

Spore Hero

Spore Hero is the Wii spin-off of Spore, developed by Maxis, in which the players focus on creativity and evolution using the unique controls of the Wii...

 which was released in North America on 6 October 2009, and worldwide on 8 October. This game is the second Spore game for the Nintendo DS, and improved from its predecessor with its new 3D graphics, and creature creation system.

Gameplay

Spore Hero Arena allows the player to move around an overworld with slight exploring and puzzling. On each planet there are six blue shards to collect by doing certain missions or jobs assigned the player by the creatures that inhabit that world. These missions can vary from being a bodyguard, racing, and of course, arena battles. Once you get all six you can turn them into a specific creature at the front of the champion's arena. The player's job is to go in and fight the champion to get the evil red fragments. Players control their creature via touchscreen and attack by using the D pad or the A, B, X, Y buttons. There are only have three different kinds of bio powers (special attacks) equipped at once. Players get to these by the L or R buttons and tapping which one they want to use with a stylus. When you get into the arena there are different kinds of battles to face. There is capture the egg (capture the flag), Battle Royale, where they fight to knock their opponents off of the arena a certain amount of times and many more.

Other Games/Expansion Packs

• Spore Creature Creator
  Spore Creature Creator
  The Spore Creature Creator is software that allows players to create their own creatures with a standalone version of the Creature Editor from Spore; the software was one of the first aspects of the game to receive focused development, and underwent ten rewrites since the start of development...
  
   (2008, PC) – The creature creator element of Spore, released prior to the full game.
• Spore
  Spore (2008 video game)
  Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore...
  
   (2008, PC)
  • Spore: Galactic Edition - Special edition of Spore
  • Spore Creepy and Cute
    Spore Creepy and Cute expansion pack
    Spore: Creepy & Cute is an expansion pack for the 2008 video game Spore. It includes additional tools and features for creature creation that were not present in the original Spore. These include 60 new parts, 48 new paint options, 24 new test drive animations, and two new test drive backgrounds....
    
     - Parts Pack
  • Spore: Galactic Adventures
    Spore: Galactic Adventures
    Spore: Galactic Adventures is the first expansion pack for the multi-genre game Spore, developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The US version of the game was released on June 23, 2009. The European version was released on June 26, 2009....
    
     (2009, PC) - Expansion pack
• Spore Creatures
  Spore Creatures
  Spore Creatures is the Nintendo DS and iPhone OS spin-off of Spore, developed by Foundation 9, in which a player controls and evolves a creature of their creation.-Plot:...
  
   (2008, DS)
• Spore Origins
  Spore Origins
  Spore Origins is the mobile device spin-off of Spore, and focuses on a single phase of the larger game's gameplay - the cell phase.-Gameplay:...
  
   (2008, Mobile phone)
• Spore Hero
  Spore Hero
  Spore Hero is the Wii spin-off of Spore, developed by Maxis, in which the players focus on creativity and evolution using the unique controls of the Wii...
  
   (2009, Wii)
• Spore Hero Arena (2009, DS)
• Darkspore
  Darkspore
  Darkspore is a video game in the original Darkspore universe that borrows the award-winning creature editor technology from the 2008 video game Spore...
  
   (2011, PC)

Planned Games/Expansion Packs

• Spore Creature Keeper
  Spore Creature Keeper
  Spore Creature Keeper is a video game spin-off to the 2008 video game Spore. The game is developed by Maxis and will be published by Electronic Arts. Made for younger users, the gameplay is heavily based on The Sims and will use the Sims 3 Engine. It will be released sometime in 2012 for Microsoft...
  
  (2012, PC)
• Spore TBA (2011, PC)

External links

• Spore Hero Arena at Spore Website

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• Spore Hero Website