Hello
I have DE1 FPGA kit from Terasic.
www.terasic.com
Board incudes some peripherals like Audio Codec, VGA output etc. In my opinion it is quite good evaluation kit. The board have two 40-pin expanding connectors. Additionally you may buy a different daughter cards (with 5MP camera, LCD dispalys etc) for these evaluation board so you may create wide range of applications.
Quite similar is DE2 which consist Ethernet PHY and 16x2 LCD.
Eval kit for SPARTAN-3E is quite similar to DE2 and propably he is cheaper than DE2.
Best regards