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A truly fun RTS? Impossible! Yes, Impossible Creatures!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 42
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've spent quite a bit of time with the demo and I'm adding this game to my Christmas Wish List. Over the years, I've tried a number of different RTS games and, frankly, the notion of "gathering resources & building structures" faster than the AI or your on-line opponent just never hooked me. In Impossible Creatures, Relic Entertainment has introduced the concept of player-designed units to the RTS genre, opening a whole new challenge for the player: Zebra+Ox or Zebra+Leopard? Not to mention an intruiging storyline involving our protagonist's long-lost father.

Mission objectives go well beyond the "Destroy Enemy Base" type of play, including collecting DNA from different animals to add to your unit creations, protecting innocent bystanders, discovering new technologies. And all within the first couple of missions.

Graphically speaking, this game is above par, providing a full 3D world for the player to interact with and manipulate. The camera can be positioned, rotated and zoomed to just about anywhere. Perfect for when you want to watch closely as your Coyopine makes mincemeat of the enemy. The animation is top-notch, as are the special effects and textures.

The sounds are also well done, though I do find some of the repeated alerts annoying: The creatures are under attack! Yes, I know that, I put them there to draw the enemy in! Oh well.

I've finally found an RTS I *want* to play! So come on, let's see what kind of creatures you can make!

-- sky

Very innovative Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 24
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo of this RTS-Game and I must say, it's one of the most exciting and innovative games of the RTS-genre I've seen. The story about the lost father of the main character is not like the epic story Warcraft 3 is based on, but none the less it's very interesting.
But the really interesting aspect of "Impossible Creatures" is the possibility to create an army by mixing the DNA of 50 different creatures (Shobsters for example: a mix of sharks and lobsters). The possibilities of combinations are nearly endless. In Multiplayer you will never meet the same type of army in different games because every player has his own unique army of combined creatures.
Everybody, who's interested in RTS-Games and who wants to play something different than the typical standard-RTS, should order this game.

Just Another RTS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm an computer gaming addict. You name it, I've played it. That being said, I'll explain why I gave this game three stars.

1. Graphics are enjoyable.
2. Sounds get annoying.
3. Somewhat improved missions, but nothing spectacular (don't expect something parrellel to Warcraft III or Starcraft)
4. Heavy Counter system. For those of you who don't understand that, it means that like another person said, its "rock-papers-sissors" A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A kinda thing. This is the exact idea that made Starcraft so popular. So its nothing new, but a great concept to be included, and one of the concepts that made Warcraft III less of a block buster hit.
5. Lots of unit variations. This leaves for a variety of attacks and defense. Although they claim an absolutely absurd number of different unit combonations, this is only because you can mix two creatures together in different ways. There are 1275 unique unit combonations, which is still a lot. But there are only so many that are worth using.

Thats my thoughts on the game...

Fun, imaginative strategy gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Impossible Creatures lets you play strategy in an unique way - by morphing together your own creature combinations!

First, the background. You're an adventurer in the 1930s whose father is missing. You track him down on an island, where you hook up with a woman to take on a mad scientist.

The basis of both of your armies is creature morphing. In essence you go around finding new creatures and snagging their DNA. You then go into your lab and can combine the body parts of ANY TWO CREATURES, and create your own uber-creature with the best of both!

This means the game is pretty much infinitely playable and is amazingly fun in multiplayer. Do you like dolphins and zebras? Why not combine the sleek swimming of the dolphin with the kicking hooves of the zebra! You can combine tigers and wasps. Leopards and oxen. The combinations are pretty much endless and it is quite a thrill to see how each one works out.

The missions in the game each call for certain tactics, as you learn how to go over, under, and through obstacles. But really the best gameplay comes when you take on other humans, and see how your favorite combos fare against their favorites.

Even if you're not into the fighting part, the creature creation can be quite fun on its own. An enjoyable, imaginative strategy game for all ages.

RTS Animal Classic, re-released!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: January 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is so good (the rest of us already knew this), now Atari is distributing it...Game type: Inexpendive, resouce gathering, networkable, RTS in very well rendered 3-D person (not fixed isometric). Honestly this is really geared for pre-hormonal, but semi-violent teens. If your kids liked Pokemon, they will love this because after extracting the DNA from your travels you can not only combine the body parts of two animals, you can make an army of them and let them loose on your best friend. I think creatures like their pictures taken, as you can zoom in and around models in true 3-D space, and clicking on the camera makes them wiggle more. Combinations are not good/bad, but cost more/less which means the most powerfull player gets grumpy as they can't efford to build until much later in the game, making them vulnerable for attack by any five year old that just likes the way his creatures look. This makes game play more chaotic than any I've seen. Some may find you referring to your blackwidow-armadillo as cute before the day is over.

Cons:
- Proprietary on-line game network (on-line gaming not supported by GameSpy, EA Games, or even MicroSoft Game network).
- AI for the insect invasion mod was never finshed. You can't play against one person and two PC players.
- Not too much social redeming vaue, but if you were looking for that in a video game I would recommend you restart your search. Then again, there's no nudity or sex.
- Insect invasion over plays the value of chitin armor, making them way too strong.
- Limited access to the SDK (Software Development Kit) for developers and people with entirely too much time on their hands to make additional creatures from scratch. I'll bet like any maunufacturing company, they will kill the product line soon, and don't want you making new content w/out paying for it.

Pro:
- Free additional animal skins avaialble for download.
- Free insect skins available for download. (If you've ever wanted to let your son bring bugs in the house, this is the way to do it.)
- Creatures can be made to scale!! Most games/toys will only attempt to do this.

Hints:
1) Get a better video card.
2) Buy more memory or a better processor (Microsoft is even a memory hog with games production too).
3) Yes, if cost is a factor, you can always just turn off the anti-virus and use MS-CONFIG to end all extra tasks.
4) Not everything Relic touches turns to gold (who did they fire after Lords of the Realm III?)
5) Big kids should give a different rating to this than Warhammer 40,000.

Preview- Creativity Indeed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: September 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this is going to be some incredible game.
This game is a 3D RTS game made by Relic. And the best part of the game is that you can combine animal DNA and make some mutant animals. And the number of the unit is limited by player's creativity. And what I like about this game is that it's not some boring old RTS. usually in RTS the things you do is build strutures, mine resources, build units and other stuff, and to win you just need to use your hands faster and build lots of units and destroy other peoples bases. Well this game does not work that way, the units have relations like rock,scissors,papers so one unit can easily konck some units but can be knocked out easily by other units. So you need to be stragical and place and build units carefully, so you get to use your brains more than your hands.
Oh, and this game has some Homeworld's blood in it so if you played homeworld you might find it simliar. This is a game I recommend for RTS lovers.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Im gonna put this like my title:

The Good:
You design your own army. You can make units to fit your personal playing style. This is the only reason I bought the game and the only reason its fun.
A long engrossing campaign allows you to stay playing single player for quite some time.
A lot of strategy invloved.(If your stupid than this is a bad thing)
Exceptional graphics. (3D)

The Bad:
CHEAT CODES! I hate em! (For real time strategy(rts) newbies this may be a good thing)
Poor pathfinding.(but every rts game has this problem)
The campaign is a little stupid and not for anyone over the age of 10
Not enough people online makes finding multiplayer games difficult.

The Just Plain Ugly:
Resources run out 2 minutes into the game. this makes alot of the campaign missions veerrry hard. this is a good thing for the rush minded player but [is bad] for anyone else.
If you cant design good creatures youll have a hard time with the game as some combinations are obviously better than others.
The fact that its a memory hog makes it not worth your hard drive space.

All in all this is a decent game and the question I know your pondering "Should I buy it?" Only if you want to fork over cash and hard drive space to get it. If your over 13 may I suggest Empire Earth or Age of Mythology instead. Warning: both are memory hogs

The Island of Dr. Moreau

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: September 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the most graphically stunning games i have seen in a while. Combining one animal with another( only two, no more). You can have a Rhino with Cheetah legs, A whale with bat wings and invincible army of mutations. You are Rex Chance and u are set after your long lost father after receiveing a letter from him, only to find that he has created some technology called sigma that combines animal dna. It has fallen into the hands of Upton Julius and Rex just escapes thanx to a quick rescue. Thats where the game starts. The gameplay is awesome, u have in game zoom, a lot of the game focuses around the combining process of your creatures, so u have plenty of time for fine tuning. You are able to select maybe a special ability u want and the computer will fix it so u get the parts you need. If u want some information or anything about Impossible creatures, go to ...and check out the forums, just ask and anyone including myself will be willing to answer any question. Oh and once again, this game ROCKS!

RTS Animal Classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Game type: Inexpendive, resouce gathering, networkable, RTS in very well rendered 3-D person (not fixed isometric).
Re-release date planned for 12/15/2004. Honestly this is really geared for pre-hormonal, but semi-violent teens. If your kids liked Pokemon, they will love this because after extracting the DNA from your travels you can not only combine the body parts of two animals, you can make an army of them and let them loose on your best friend. I think creatures like their pictures taken, as you can zoom in and around models in true 3-D space, and clicking on the camera makes them wiggle more. Combinations are not good/bad, but cost more/less which means the most powerfull player gets grumpy as they can't efford to build until much later in the game, making them vulnerable for attack by any five year old that just likes the way his creatures look. This makes game play more chaotic than any I've seen. Some may find you referring to your blackwidow-armadillo as cute before the day is over.

Cons:
- Proprietary on-line game network (on-line gaming not supported by GameSpy, EA Games, or even MicroSoft Game network).
- AI for the insect invasion mod was never finshed. You can't play against one person and two PC players.
- Not too much social redeming vaue, but if you were looking for that in a video game I would recommend you restart your search. Then again, there's no nudity or sex.
- Insect invasion over plays the value of chitin armor, making them way too strong.
- Limited access to the SDK (Software Development Kit) for developers and people with entirely too much time on their hands to make additional creatures from scratch. I'll bet like any maunufacturing company, they will kill the product line soon, and don't want you making new content w/out paying for it.

Pro:
- Free additional animal skins avaialble for download.
- Free insect skins available for download. (If you've ever wanted to let your son bring bugs in the house, this is the way to do it.)
- Creatures can be made to scale!! Most games/toys will only attempt to do this.

Hints:
1) Get a better video card.
2) Buy more memory or a better processor (Microsoft is even a memory hog with games production too).
3) Yes, if cost is a factor, you can always just turn off the anti-virus and use MS-CONFIG to end all extra tasks.
4) Not everything Relic touches turns to gold (who did they fire after Lords of the Realm III?)
5) Big kids should give a different rating to this than Warhammer 40,000

GOOD GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well to start off this game isnt the best game I have ever played in my life, but it is a really good game. One of the bad things about it is that it seems to me like it is just too much like starcraft. Instead of Vespene Gas and Minerals you have to mine Coal and Electricity. Instead of Drones, Probes, or Scv's, you use henchmen. But I must say that I did like the story and I like the way you can change what creatures can look like and there powers. So all in all I think that this is game that is well worth spending you money for and that you will have countless hours on this game having fun.

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