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1. R/ImpossibleCreatures: Welcome to the Impossible Creatures subreddit. Artillery is a pretty decent option, especially if there are clustered towers/brambles and range creatures, it's pretty micro heavy though and you will get wrecked by melee if you aren't really on top of it and support it with flyers or range.
2. As mentioned before, Impossible Creatures plays like any other RTS, except you can create your own customized army of creatures. This is the best feature of the game, since the amount of creatures you can make is impressive (especially for 2002).

Impossible Creatures is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 and developed by Relic Entertainment in conjunction with Microsoft Studios. Its unique feature is that the armies used are all created by the player. The armies consist of 9 creatures; each one is a combination of any two animals from a list of 76 (51 with no downloads). Many animals possess inherent abilities to add more strategic depth to the game. There is an extensive single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer functionality with different game modes, add-ons, custom maps, mods, and scenarios.

The best creature is the Hippo+Chameleon. The exact combo is Hippo with Chameleon head and tail. These work really well if you have a lot of them at once, and they also have the added camouflage bonus.

Impossible Creatures was followed up later by a free downloadable expansion entitled Insect Invasion which added new creatures and abilities to the game. The last official add on for Impossible Creatures was released in 2004.

On November 12, 2015, Impossible Creatures was released on Steam as Impossible Creatures: Steam Edition, by THQ Nordic. Relic Entertainment and Sega relinquished the rights of Impossible Creatures to THQ Nordic after it was revealed that neither THQ nor Microsoft Studios owned the rights to the video game.^[2]

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The Steam version includes all patches and expansion packs released in the past, the IC Online servers reimplemented through Steam's cloud service and the game's modding software development kit included in the package alongside the Mission Editor originally available within the game's files. Steam Workshop support came out in Patch 3.^[3] The Steam Edition is also optimized for modern computer systems and software. The game was also released on GOG.com shortly after it appeared on Steam.

Gameplay[edit]

Campaign[edit]

This mode consists of 15 different missions, spanning over a group of islands in the South Pacific known as the Isla Variatas, indicating the variety of environments presented to the player, ranging from jungles, deserts, or Arctic regions. The protagonist, Rex Chance, is required to collect animal DNA throughout the campaign in order to add more animal varieties to his army of combined creatures.

Multiplayer[edit]

In Impossible Creatures, there are three game types available during multiplayer, which allows for up to six players at once. In 'Destroy Enemy Lab', the first to destroy the enemies' main laboratories is the winner. The Insect Invasion official mod added a feature that can be turned on that defends the lab, at the cost of 35 points of electricity per second. In 'Destroy Enemy Base', the winner is the first to destroy all enemy buildings, including the lab. In 'Hunt Rex', each player is given a special unit, Rex Chance. Players must hunt down and kill other participants' Rex Chance units. Multiplayer games can be played via the IC Online (ICO) service, via a LAN connection, or by connecting directly to the host player's IP address.

Plot[edit]

Dr. Eric Chanikov was one of the brightest scientific minds in history. After a failed experiment causes the Tunguska Event and kills his wife, he goes into willing exile at a chain of remote islands. There, he reports the creation of the Sigma Technology, a method which makes it possible to fuse two creatures together into a single organism. These reports are ignored by the scientific and mainstream communities.

Then, in 1937, believing that his last days are upon him, Chanikov sends a letter to his son, Rex, asking him to come visit his father. Rex, going by the name of 'Rex Chance', a disgraced war reporter, travels to the archipelago. Discovering that his father died at the hands of the evil tycoon Upton Julius, he vows to avenge his father's murder. He is assisted by the late Chanikov's assistant, Dr. Lucy Willing. With her help, Rex quickly learns the power of the Sigma technology, and more about his family's past. As he spends time around the Sigma technology, latent abilities are made manifest within him. These abilities make him increasingly superhuman, allowing him to directly assist his Sigma Creatures in battle.

Lucy and Rex's progress is slowed by those loyal to Julius: Whitey Hooten, a whaler whose Sigma-created creatures are slow and powerful, Velika la Pette, a high-strung aristocrat who relies on aerial units, and Dr. Ganglion, a mad scientist fond of using creatures most would call abominations.

Julius is, however, confronted and defeated at the end of the game. The reasoning behind Rex's latent abilities is at last revealed: he is the accidental first product of the Sigma technology, a human combined with thousands of animal traits. As the game closes, Rex is shown with his pupils missing, a trait common among Sigma-created creatures.

Development[edit]

According to early previews, players had to tranquilize creatures and bring them back to the base to collect their DNA. In the final product, though, it is enough for Rex to shoot a creature to collect its DNA. This only applies to the single-player campaign; in a regular multi-player skirmish, all creatures are readily available.

Despite the fact that the game was not released on Steam until 2015, Impossible Creatures was one of the first titles that Valve used to demonstrate Steam in 2003. This was probably due to Valve and Relic’s close relationship; as both had worked with Sierra Online.^[4]

The development of the 2015 remastered edition involved recreating much of Relic's postlaunch work on the SDK and Insect Invasion add-on, as well as rewriting the multiplayer networking for Steam and modern firewalls. Before and after the Steam re-release, the Tellurian mod -- which adds many creatures, maps, and balancing tweaks -- became a large focal point for the game's community.^[4] In fact, fixes made by the Tellurian mod developers were integrated back into the base game in an official patch.^[3]

Reception[edit]

The game received 'average' reviews according to video game review aggregatorMetacritic.^[5]

Maxim gave it a score of eight out of ten and said, 'Once you get past all the gamesmanship, you can concentrate on bitch-slapping Mother Nature by creating twisted beasts that would make Jack Hanna brown his khakis.'^[19] However, The Cincinnati Enquirer gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its gameplay 'doesn't match the title's ingenious premise.'^[17]Entertainment Weekly gave it a C, saying, 'If most real-time strategy titles are elaborate versions of rock-paper-scissors, Impossible Creatures is the world's most sophisticated game of rock.'^[18]

See also[edit]

• Animal Fight Club - A Spiritual Successor to Impossible Creatures

References[edit]

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2. ^Hillier, Brenna (23 November 2015). 'The improbable journey of Impossible Creatures'. VG247. Videogaming247. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
3. ^ ^ab'Impossible Creatures Steam Edition - PATCH 3 - Fixes & WORKSHOP support - Steam News'. store.steampowered.com. 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
4. ^ ^ab'The improbable journey of Impossible Creatures'. VG247. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
5. ^ ^ab'Impossible Creatures for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
6. ^Deci, T.J. 'Impossible Creatures - Review'. AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
7. ^Edge staff (March 2003). 'Impossible Creatures'. Edge (121): 100.
8. ^Fahey, Rob (February 25, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures'. Eurogamer. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
9. ^Brogger, Kristian (March 2003). 'Impossible Creatures'. Game Informer (119): 90. Archived from the original on February 25, 2005. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
10. ^The D-Pad Destroyer (February 26, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures Review for PC on GamePro.com'. GamePro. Archived from the original on March 10, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
11. ^Silverman, Ben (January 2003). 'Impossible Creatures Review'. Game Revolution. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
12. ^Kasavin, Greg (January 9, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
13. ^Osborne, Scott (January 16, 2003). 'GameSpy: Impossible Creatures'. GameSpy. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
14. ^Tha Wiz (January 12, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures - PC - Review'. GameZone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
15. ^Adams, Dan (January 9, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
16. ^Poole, Stephen (March 2003). 'Impossible Creatures'. PC Gamer: 86. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
17. ^ ^abSaltzman, Marc (January 28, 2003). 'Clumsy combat hurts 'Creatures' concept'. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
18. ^ ^abWolpaw, Erik (February 7, 2003). 'Bad Breeding (Impossible Creatures Review)'. Entertainment Weekly (694): 90. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
19. ^Boyce, Ryan (January 7, 2003). 'Impossible Creatures'. Maxim. Archived from the original on April 13, 2003. Retrieved April 18, 2016.

External links[edit]

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• Official website - Microsoft at the Wayback Machine (archived January 4, 2006)
• Official website - Relic at the Wayback Machine (archived February 22, 2014)
• Impossible Creatures at MobyGames

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