An anthem is a song that plays in cities in the Civilization Stage, Space Stage, and City Planner. An anthem is always randomly generated for the player when entering the Civilization Stage. The player can also edit and save their own anthems with the Anthem editor, and can be saved in the Sporepedia.
In the Space Stage, the player can hear an empire's anthem by approaching a city. Anthems are also heard in the transmission window, but are harder to hear above the static and creature's voice. The Grox have a unique anthem, with static sounds as an introduction, and keening followed by a deep, strangely non-robotic voice; some players guess that it is the poetry of Vogons (D. Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Trivia[]
- Creating and saving 10 anthems award the player with the Ghetto Blaster Achievement.
- Anthems are the only section of Maxis' Sporepedia with no creations.
- Anthems and cells are the only user created content that can't be shared with other Spore players.
- A video showing the Grox anthem can be seen here.
- Anthems can, in a way, be "shared", by use of .png files.
- Anthems can have up to 16 notes.