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- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / 95 / XP
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 11
- Media: Video Game
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the 19th century authors theorised about the creation of new hybrids from different creatures. That's the goal behind the real-time strategy game Impossible Creatures. The story concerns adventurer and hunter Rex Chance and his skirmishes with a mad scientist bent on world domination through animal engineering. Rex has to gather DNA from animals and combine it in his Creature Lab, giving rise to such oddities as Shagles (shark eagles), Eleph-Ants (elephant ants), Bull-o-Diles (bull crocodiles) and whatever else you want to come up with.
The missions of the single player game are linked by a pretty good tale, nicely flavoured with touches straight out of the adventure serials of the 1940s. But the game's limitations are also clearest in single player: it's just a regular old real-time strategy game at heart. The creature gimmick is cool, but once you figure out what critters you need, it becomes dull.
Multiplayer is a different story. In multi you can load up to eight creatures into an army and those are the beasts you can use in the match. If you load the wrong beasts your opponent can swarm all over you. The fun comes when you start working out how to beat your enemy's army with the Creature Combiner interface. The only problem here is that to get that point you have to play the same person more than once. That's not an easy task, thanks to a lacklustre multiplayer matchmaking service (as compared to that in, say, Age of Mythology). It would be better if you could customise armies during the game, but real-time pacing precludes that.
The graphics and audio are great and you can't beat the concept. It could be a better game, and there are better real-time games out there, but none of them let you make a Skant (skunk ant) or a massive Sperm Grizzly (sperm whale grizzly bear) and who wouldn't want to spend time doing that? --Andrew S Bub
Product Description
Set in a fantastic 1930s world, Impossible Creatures is a 3-D, real-time strategy game that pits the player against an evil villain in a desperate campaign across a chain of remote and diverse islands. Using Earth's most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.
The game promises a unique multiplayer experience where up to six Impossible Creatures players will be able to wage war in real time using Zone match. Multiplayer games are designed to be fast and furious with a streamlined RTS approach. Micromanagement has been minimised to allow players to focus on the aspects of the game that are the most fun and compelling-combat and strategy. With more than 20 multiplayer maps, and the ability to refine your armies and strategy, multiplayer RTS gaming will never be the same.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great game,
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This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Video Game)
I have had this game for a long time and I haven't got bored of. The aim of it is to defeat the enemy with mixed up creatures. There are millions of possibilities and half the fun is just making them up! The campaign is quite hard but once you have worked out good tactics you will find it easier. The single battles are also fun and usually last from about 30 minutes to 1 hour.The graphics are fairly decent and most of the time you are too busy building and fighting to notice. You use your "henchmen" to gather coal and lightening rods to collect electricity. With the two resources you can build buildings like the Creatrue chamber and sound beam towers. Overall this is a good game for teenagers mostly but children and adults will like it too. It is a great game!
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best game for animal comedy,
By A Customer
This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Video Game)
This game has to be one of the weirdest games i have ever played mainly because of the 40000 different creatures that you can make! You can make anything literaly anything. You could storm the other teams base with flying skunks! The game itself has desent graphics with is important for obvious reasons. The single player campaign is also interesting and dosnt drop you in the deep end (much!). Overall I personally think the game is a complete success with good graphics, good plot and storyline and so many different creatures! its "impossible" to resist!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Imaginative idea, fun to play,
By GHV (Southampton, UK) - See all my reviews
= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Video Game)
This game boasts something that no other RTS can offer- mixing two different animal species into one amazing creature and then sending them to wage war against other freakish armies.
There are so many different animal combinations that every battle is different and new. You can mix a lobster with a ram, giving you an amphibious unit that can charge up beaches and gore foes with its horns. By combining an eagle with a piranha you can create a flying fish that swoops down on enemies, tearing them with those impressive piranha teeth. Add a polar bear's limbs upon the body of a killer whale and you have a large walking tank that can traverse both land and sea. These are just some of my favourite combinations and there are many more. The idea of mixing the creatures and making your own fighting units, each with their own strengths and weaknesses is a very imaginative, fun and interesting concept, but this game is definitely not the best RTS around. For example, the maximum number of units your armies can comprise of is a mere 75 -that's including workers (called 'henchmen' in the game). However, this game does introduce some other good points other than its imaginative selling point. Some animals, such as wolves, lions and hyenas are pack hunters and therefore, when fighting in groups of four or more, receive an attack bonus. Similarly, as oxen, rams, elephants, etc, are herding creatures, when they are combined with other animals they gain a defence bonus when attacking in groups. These are nice extras and also feature the skunk's 'stink cloud' capability to stun foes and the whales' 'sonar pulse' to reveal an area of the map momentarily. The maps themselves are average, with players battling on either a snowy, grassy or arid desert map, each comprising of land- sometimes separated by water- dotted with areas of coal (an important resource) and geysers that generate electricity when built upon with certain structures. Overall, this is a good game with a different, interesting selling point that will keep anyone amused even if they are not a huge fan of the RTS games.
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