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Impossible Creatures

Description

Impossible Creatures is a real-time strategy with a twist. Rather than building "Unit A" and "Unit B" like nearly all other real-time strategies, in this game the player acquires DNA from animals and mesh them together, creating unique hybrids of two separate animals. Use the strength of a bull, with the speed of a cheetah and the player might have a Cheebull, or give a skunk an extra defense and mix in a porcupine, making a Porskunkine. With dozens of different animal DNA to combine, there are nearly endless combinations.

The main campaign's storyline is something like this. Your father, whom you've not seen since your childhood, sends you a letter in which he says he does not have long to live, and there is a secret he must tell you before he passes on. So you head to one of the uncharted islands in which he works, but you're suddenly ambushed by half-wolf, half-scorpion freaks of nature. Using the creature workshop and DNA collected from the animals, you must create hybrids of your own to rescue your father.

Each creature hybrid has several areas of the body in which can be meshed together. The head, pawns, legs, back, rear, can all be attributed by either of the two creatures involved in the mix.

Alternate Titles

• "不可思议之生物" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Sigma: The Adventures of Rex Chance" -- Working title
• "Sigma" -- Working title
• "Bukesiyi zhi Shengwu" -- Chinese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Scripting language: LUA
• Theme: Steampunk

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User Reviews

Too bad the interesting premise is wasted on a generic boring RTS	weregamer (157)
Excellent Idea, But Could Be Improved	Black Death (6)	unrated

The Press Says

CanadianGamer	Mar 25, 2003	84 out of 100	84
Strategy Informer	Dec 03, 2002	8.2 out of 10	82
GameSpot	Jan 09, 2003	7.9 out of 10	79
PC Zone Benelux	Mar, 2003	78 out of 100	78
Game Revolution	Jan 01, 2003	B	75
GameSpy	Jan 16, 2003	72 out of 100	72
Factornews	Mar 03, 2003	6 out of 10	60
Game Informer Magazine	Mar, 2003	6 out of 10	60
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Apr, 2003		50
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jan 30, 2003		50

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Trivia

There is an add-on expansion pack for the game, available from Relic's official IC site for free (size: 88 Mb).