Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Non-Sport
74
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.3
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

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 Impossible Creatures you acquire 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 you might have a Cheebull, or give your 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 Title (Simplified)
  • "Sigma: The Adventures of Rex Chance" -- Pre-release Title
  • "Bukesiyi zhi Shengwu" -- Chinese Title

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User Reviews

Too bad the interesting premise is wasted on a generic boring RTS weregamer (157) 2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars2 Stars
Excellent Idea, But Could Be Improved Black Death (6) unrated

The Press Says

ActionTrip Jan 14, 2003 90 out of 100 90
GameStar (Germany) Feb, 2003 79 out of 100 79
GameSpot Jan 09, 2003 7.9 out of 10 79
PC Action Mar 10, 2003 79 out of 100 79
Game Informer Magazine Mar, 2003 7.5 out of 10 75
Games TM Feb, 2003 7 out of 10 70
Game Informer Magazine Mar, 2003 6 out of 10 60
Factornews Mar 03, 2003 6 out of 10 60
Rebell.at Games Mar 28, 2003 5 out of 10 50
Armchair Empire, The Feb 12, 2003 4 out of 10 40

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Trivia

The game's graphical rendering engine is called SPOOGE. There is a separated physics/collision, AI/script, and combiner engine too.


This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by kbmb Bronze Star Contributing Member (399) on Feb 19, 2003.
 

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